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August 12, 2000
This new file server has a half TB of disk, a half GB of memory, and a half GHz of processor.
Half computer ingredients and sources
| Sky-Tech Computers | |
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One Pentium III 667 MHz Processor with 133 MHz bus (clocked down to 500 Mhz i swear!) | $259 |
| Two 256 MB 133 MHz bus SDRAM Memory Chips | $712 |
| 1 Floppy Disk Drive | $15.95 |
| 1 50X CD-Rom Drive | $49.95 |
| 1 3C905B Ethernet Card | $57.95 |
| 1 SiS6326 8Mb AGP Graphics Card | $32.00 |
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1 Full Tower Super Case w/ 300W ATX Power Supply (6 - 5 1/4 bays, 6 - 3 1/2 bays) | $66 |
| 1 ASUS P3V133 PC133 Motherboard | $107 |
| PC Power & Cooling | |
| 1 425W Turbo Cool ATX Power Supply (replaced 300W) | $199 |
| 3 Case fans for cooling. | $28.80 |
| Ebiz Enterprises | |
| 1 3Ware 3W5800 Raid Controller Card | $400 |
| Computers, Peripherals, and Upgrades, Ltd. | |
| 1 Seagate 10 Gb Hard Drive (boot drive) | $129 |
| 5 Y-Splitters for Power | $19.95 |
| MacWarehouse | |
| 8 Maxtor 60 Gb Hard Drives | $2295.55 |
| MicroWarehouse | |
| 5 Hard Drive Mounting Kits | $55.40 |
| 8 Ribbon Cables | $46.00 |
| Total | $4473.55 |
Each of the big file systems is a two-disk mirrored array.
[root@half /]# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 9748320 773952 8479168 8% / /dev/hda1 23302 2442 19657 11% /boot /dev/sda1 59084932 20 56083572 0% /sda /dev/sdb1 59084932 20 56083572 0% /sdb /dev/sdc1 59084932 20 56083572 0% /sdc /dev/sdd1 59084932 20 56083572 0% /sdd
April 6, 2005
About half the disks have died and we have gutted the machine for parts.
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