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Server Inside a Suitcase
Spleener12 writes "Andrew Larson and Derek Radke have come up with an interesting case mod concept: a fully fledged server inside of a suitcase (originally designed to hold airsoft guns,) complete with a window, neon lights, and plenty of external ports. The case is a result of a summer's worth of research, design, and construction, and they are planning on constructing a few more to sell to any interested buyers."
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I can probably think of about 500 different places to hide a mini-ATX board in about an hour, so who cares? I mean, if they did something that not many people can do, that's one thing. But throwing a motherboard and components into a suitcase is nothing to get excited about. Why did this make it to the front page of slashdot?
While im normaly quite impressed by case mods and so on, this thing is little more than a very large steel suitcase with an average machine in it.
I would have been more impressed were it a dual xeon with yada yada yada.... but this thing is hardly anythinbg to gawk at... or care for.
Hell my laptop is a development server... surely it coudltn stand a slashdotting, but neither could this pathetic mod.
Bottom line, Grab any off the shelf 1U rackmount server (HP,DELL, IBM, VISIONMAN, etc) ... attach a handle.... and youve got the same thing, but probably at half the cost and better hardware.
dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
--Idiots, Every single one of YOU, A flaming mass of conglomerated morons, hey wait a second, isnt that how RAID works?
and what's the point of placing the computer in a fairly well-protected case and then have KNOBS sticking out the end of the case? Those won't survive even a week's real-world use before getting snapped off. You don't put fragile bits sticking out the ends of a carrying case.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
I've been using laptops as onsite servers at conventions for ten years.
I like how a lot of you guys are being assholes about this. Maybe you don't realize that they are college students. How is a college student going to afford 8 way opterion innards for their guncase server? Seriously I think the whole point is that it was a relatively new case mod idea, because seriously, no matter how many times mr Larson and I have had this discussion, putting lights inside your computer does *not* make it faster. It's eye candy, plain and simple. Give these guys a break, I mean in real life I hate Larson, but sheesh.
"Server" and "neon lights" are mutually exclusive.
My boss has a friend who has done tours around the country to high schoool and college CS classes, demoing parallel computation techniques.
He found it difficult to count on suitable computer resources, so he put four small ATX motherboards in a suitcase with power supplies, hard drives, and a four port switch. He just powers everything up when he gets to his destination and he's good to go. TSA apparently gives him weird looks but not much more.
They always ask me to turn on my laptop. Like a determined bomd maker couldn't put a bomb in a laptop without breaking it.
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