Posts by tycoonbob

Quote:Originally Posted by cathode Hello, I am in the process of a storage build-out for my home cluster and picked up 92 (ninety-two) 36GB 10k RPM 2.5" SAS hard drives on ebay (hell of a deal, $308 shipped for all 92, they come...

Quote:Originally Posted by DEW21689 Its actually only 17.5" wide and listed as 1U and my server is 17.2", enclosure is like 19" wide internally and 24" wide externally... Where did you get that standard racks are only 10" wide? My...

Seeing that it's 20" long, and a standard rack is 10" wide, I don't know if you will be able to slap ears on it and mount it in a 1U spot. Most PDUs, and even some KVMs, are mounted in what is called the 0U area. 0U equipment mounts to...

Quote:Originally Posted by Dnic41 Thanks for the info on that. Was actually going to do that myself this weekend as I ordered a pair as well and they have arrived. I swear the description said the power supply in these things were...

Quote:Originally Posted by NameUnknown The two pfSense boxes is so there can be a load balancing and redundancy. Aside from that, I could get by with a pair of celeron rigs like I put in my server rack thread. But the cost for...

Quote:Originally Posted by NameUnknown because while I have the cash, it would be eating into my cash reserve if I bought the 7 or so I would want to get. I'd make 2 into pfSense boxes (talk about some 10mb intrusion...

Quote:Originally Posted by NameUnknown What can I use to justify buying a handful of these? That low of power consumption with that kind of hardware makes me want these lol. This is OCN. Why do you need a reason to buy a few? lol,

Quote:Originally Posted by Plan9 with the amount of VMs you have, you must still end up logging in regularly if just to run Windows updates. You trying to take a stab at Microsoft's update cycle? I actually use Microsoft System...

Quote:Originally Posted by Techie007     Oh no, I didn't at all mean that your large power supply annoys me; I was just noting that I frequently see posts elsewhere where the advice to someone with an average desktop...

Quote:Originally Posted by Techie007     Looks typical to me!  I see you've got a 1100w power supply in there—hopefully for expansion, not a mistakenly over-rated power supply!  People usually over-estimate the...