Show Us Your Racks

J.B · 22 Dec 2010 at 10:07

daz said:
I think a modern R610 with dual hex cores would offer better performance in 1U than that entire blade chassis.

(But would cost more )

Would probably be more energy efficient though!

It practically pays for itself!

daz · 22 Dec 2010 at 10:10

Absolutely that fully populated chassis will probably consume the best part of 12-15A :eek:

Would make a good heater in the winter. :cool:

Sp00n · 22 Dec 2010 at 13:59

JonRohan said:
Yep, it was nasty. The best thing about the room was the air conditioning. In the summer when the rest of the building was really hot I was nice and comfy.

I don't miss the work environment at all.

Cool... but deaf

ThorpedoUK · 22 Dec 2010 at 14:53

RimBlock said:
But, but, but...... there is so many of them.........

Turn it on and the electric meter readout will be like the speedo of a F1 car when the lights go green .

Ha ha!

Yeah that would be so true about the speedo! :eek:

Mad Professor · 29 Dec 2010 at 14:53

Seeing what some of you guys have posted, I tought I would post mine, but it is nothing like what you lot have posted.

Here is my current setup.

Anyone who works in DataCentres will know what thease servers are.

I am soon to be replacing them with more moden servers.

zetec452 · 29 Dec 2010 at 14:56

Yikes, it's been a while since I've seen those. I had a few I used to run. Worked fairly well.

daz · 29 Dec 2010 at 15:04

My raq3 has been powered off for a year or two now. I used to use it for storing my music on (samba based NAS) but the BIOS doesn't support decent sized hard disks for this day and age. Will have to see if there's any updates. Would be great to stick a PCI SATA card in there and a couple of 2.5" 500GB drives.

Mad Professor · 29 Dec 2010 at 15:08

I tought my RaQ 550's where old, I think I have a RaQ 3 up in the loft somewhere.

My RaQ 550's are running at the max I could get out of them, 1400Mhz CPU, 2GB Ram, 2x 80GB in Raid-1.

Thay have done me good for what I wanted them for, but now like you, I want to store large about of data, so it's about time for an upgrade.

I am running BlueOnyx / CentOS 5.5 on them, It it possible to add a PCI sata/esata card to them, but I have no idea on drive size limit.

Savara · 29 Dec 2010 at 18:33

Haven't got any rack pictures, but have got a rather nice pic of the inert gas fire suppression system that will apparently knock you over completely (and then kill you) if you're stupid enough to stay in there after the alam goes off.

(Friend for size comparison)

(I admit these aren't entirely mine... only by association!

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Westyfield2 · 29 Dec 2010 at 18:39

Savara said:
Haven't got any rack pictures, but have got a rather nice pic of the inert gas fire suppression system that will apparently knock you over completely (and then kill you) if you're stupid enough to stay in there after the alam goes off.

(Friend for size comparison)

(I admit these aren't entirely mine... only by association! )

For a while our Halon system had a fault... though the warning buzzer was soo high pitched that young little 19yo me was the only one able to hear it :eek:

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ih8modem · 29 Dec 2010 at 20:18

halon

hmm halon nasty stuff. Many years ago a tech died in one of our datacentres as he never knew where the exits or breathing kits were .... Sometimes health and safety briefings are not all bad.

PhillyDee · 29 Dec 2010 at 20:18

ih8modem said:
hmm halon nasty stuff. Many years ago a tech died in one of our datacentres as he never knew where the exits or breathing kits were .... Sometimes health and safety briefings are not all bad.

Thats why it is very very restricted in usage now.

neil_g · 30 Dec 2010 at 17:04

we've got a supposedly decommisioned halon system in our server room.. but to be on the safe side if the alarm ever went off we'd still leg it. nasty stuff.

DJMK4 · 26 Jan 2011 at 00:36

Cant wait until we move in to our new building

Ex Ambulance Centre, we bought it, turning it in to a big data centre, projects been going on a while, we are still in Phase 1 at the moment doing the place up so we can move from our rented office space to the new building, should be moving in about April/may, phase 2 & 3 = DC pOrn

anything I don't mind · 26 Jan 2011 at 09:16

Savara said:
Haven't got any rack pictures, but have got a rather nice pic of the inert gas fire suppression system that will apparently knock you over completely (and then kill you) if you're stupid enough to stay in there after the alam goes off.

snip

(Friend for size comparison)

(I admit these aren't entirely mine... only by association! )

Once i was in a server room at a law firm that had those canisters (that suck oxygen out the room) and leak detection under the floor. I was told to go in and get some keyboards out of the storage cupboard and i could not see. So stupidly i took out my lighter and started to use that, good job nothing happened :eek:

KIA · 26 Jan 2011 at 09:32

Using a lighter in a server room, WTF?

Burnsy2023 · 26 Jan 2011 at 09:35

fluff said:
Using a lighter in a server room, WTF?

Indeed. Brain definitely not engaged.

Sp00n · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:48

Still using halon? :/

Stelly · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:50

Sp00n said:
Still using halon? :/

Thought it was illegal these days??

Stelly

Ev0 · 26 Jan 2011 at 12:45

Stelly said:
Thought it was illegal these days??

Stelly

Still allowed in some places iirc, like aircraft, military etc.

FM200 is tends to be used (or the same thing under a different name), I think, now instead for other places.