*Incoming log winded post showcasing a bunch of tech gear I hope I do the Linus Tech Tips community proud!* (Skip to the end for the "good stuff")
I stumbled across the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel a few months back and I've been hooked ever since! I've been far to busy the last few months to spend nearly the time here on the forums I wanted to, but with things finally slowing down I figured this was a good place to start with a bit of an introduction...... to my gear of course not me.... ![:)]()
I've been a technology nut for as long as I can remember my first "project" was wiring two 9 pin serial port cables together into a null modem cable which I subsequently used to network our first two family computers and used them to play Warcraft and Command and Conquer with friends for years to come.
By the time college rolled around my room was always cluttered with computers in various states of assembly, seeing that tour Linus gave us sometime ago of the LTT studio brought back some memories! Though I have to say I've never gone as far as to keep a server or two in the bathroom! But I always had one server half assembled on or under my desk waiting to experiment with a new Linux distro or something, a desktop I was fixing for a friend piled in the corner. It drove me nuts!
After getting a tour of the backroom of our college network one summer I was inspired to get organized and rack mount all my gear! After realizing it was nearly impossible to get a decent equipment rack with the cash I had at the time I ended up building this monstrosity....
Fittingly Dubbed "Project EGOR"
Version 1.0 (O the horror!!! It gets better I swear!!)
It continued to evolve over time.... half way through college it had transformed into this (a little less suck this time!)
Version.... 5.4?
Now the "good stuff" (well at least I think so!)
Presenting Project EGOR
Version... 234.2 or there about... I think...
Topology and Specs
In order of appearance (Top to bottom) skipping most of the boring stuff.
5!!! err 4 ... 4 COMPUTERS HA HA HA HA
1) VMWare ESXi Server
Rosewill RSV-L4000 Rackmount Case
Intel i7 3820 @ 4.0Ghz
56GB RAM
240GB SSD
2TB iSCSI FreeNAS Drive
Dual Port Gig Intel Nic x 3
2) Freenas Storage Server
Rosewill RSV-L4000 Rackmount Case
Intel i7 2700k
32GB RAM
IBM ServeRAID M1015 (2 connections 8 drives in JBOD ... yum!)
13 Drives ( 1 to many! O well ZIP tie that thing!)
2x RAIDZ2 arrays
~10+TB Total usable storage
3) Desktop
Rosewill RSV-L4000 Rackmount Case
Intel 3770k @ 4.7ghz
Corsair H100i Liquid Cooler
16 GB RAM
240GB SSD X2 Raid Zero
2TB iSCSI FreeNAS Drive
ASUS Sabertooth Z77 Motherboard
NVIDIA 660Ti x2 SLI @ 1201Mhz
Kraken G10 + Corsair H50 Liquid Cooler x2
NVVIDIA GT 520
Ceton InfiniTV4 PCIe TV tuner
Dual Port Gig Intel Nic
Corsair HX1000i PSU
4) CyberPower 1350PFCLCD UPS5
5) "Old Faithful"
Beat and busted 4U rackmount case I've had forever
ABIT BP6 Motherboard! (Bonus points if anyone else remembers these!)
DUAL Celeron CPUs! Overclocked to something still REALLY SLOW!
At least a MB or two of ram!
Monitors and Such
Samsung S27B550 27"
LG 34UM95-P 34"
Samsung 731B 17" x2
Klipsch KG-200 Headset
Klipsch Speakers
Corsair K95 Keyboard
Razer Naga Mouse
4TB USB 3.0 Drive
5TB USB 3.0 Drive
Work Bench Storage + Test Bench and Tools
Whats that? Yes that's a 72" tool chest and yes it totally counts as living room furniture why do you ask? ![:)]()
It was actually a challenge to fit this all in the frame.... need a bigger place....
So there you have it. Its a never ending story nearly 10 years in the making so far and I have hundreds of pages of ideas and plans to come!
To long winded? Nah! You're lucky I didn't attempt to explain how it all works or what it does!!! A story for another day.... maybe...
Please share your thoughts!