September 24, 2007
Seven years after the
Half Machine
our hot new server has roughly 10-16 times as much of everything. Our goal with this server is sustained 10 Gbps I/O from storage to network.
Overview
- Two quad-core 64-bit Xeon processors
- 16 GB RAM
- 7.68 TB of disk
- Two 12-port RAID controllers
- 10 Gbps Ethernet
Details
- Rackmount Pro RM5024 5U SAS chassis with 1350W (3 + 1 redundant, hot-swap) power supplies
- Supermicro X7DBE motherboard
- Two 64-bit Xeon E5345
quad core processors @ 2.33GHz, 4x2 MB cache, 1.333 GHz FSB
- Eight Kingston 2 GB 240-pin FB-DIMM ECC DDR2 667 MHz DRAM (PC2 5300) Dual Channel (16GB total)
- Two Areca ARC-1231ML
12-port PCI-Express (x8) to SATA II RAID adapter
- 24 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS (320 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA, 3 Gbps, 16 MB cache)
- One Western Digital Caviar WD RE WD1600YS system disk (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA, 3 Gbps, 16 MB cache)
- One Myricom 10G-PCIE-8A-R
PCI-Express (x8) 10-G Ethernet NIC
- One Myricom 10G-XFP-SR
optical transceiver
Cost
| Source | Item | Price |
|---|
| Rackmount Pro | Chassis, motherboard, CPUs, RAID adapters,cable | 4,999.00 |
| Shipping | 155.00 |
| Myricom | NIC and transceiver | 1,295.00 |
| Shipping | 10.00 |
| Newegg | DRAM | 1,199.96 |
| Shipping | 23.23 |
| Rush order fee | 3.99 |
| Newegg | Drives | 1,799.76 |
| Shipping | 9.69 |
| Rush order fee | 2.99 |
TOTAL | 9,498.62 |
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