home server/server 2008

sorry another quick question, one of the PSU's has an amber light on it, and when i plug in just that PSU no lights come on at all D:

dead?

thanks
 
I would imagine so, the amber light probably suggests they aren't fully redundant (i.e one has failed/no power to it/etc).
 
yeh thats what i thought, anyways theyre sending me two new HDD and another PSU :)

any thorts on anything else posted above?

cheers
 
I don't think your board has SATA ports, also owing to it being a rack server it'd need the backplane to support it. If I were you, like I once was, I'd just build it up as a regular windows 2008 (possibly 2003, as 2008 might not run that well, R2 definitely won't work) and then just whack external USB disks on it. Then get used to running that stuff.

Also, if you manage to get up enough money to do so, just build another machine, standard desktop stuff... Most Intel chips these days support VT-x so yeah... Just load it up with loadsa RAM, I did that with my machine when RAM was cheap, bought up 8Gb and I run 5 VMs under Linux using VB. If you're looking for server hardware to get experience with that in... I wouldn't bother, as server HW issues are generally ten times easier to fix than regular PCs... God bless lightpath diagnostics. Plus, servers usually ship with high CFM fans, which are bastid noisy. ;)
 
yeh thats what i thort :/

can u get pci x sata cards? and then i could just mount the drive (physically) outside the case or somin.

im gonna install 2003 on it and use it as a backup server and then use the other one as a file server.

will try and get another server with lots of ram and run vms on it :)

cheers
 
what you could do is try and hack the backplane out and shove the drives in there and feed the SATA cables through.

And yeah, I'm sure you can get a SATA PCI card, which'll do just fine.
 
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