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
|
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 |
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.