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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."
This will go over well with airport security.
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People that believe in their opinions don't post AC.
Wouldn't a laptop be a heck of lot easier to carry onto the plane?
"My suitcase got slashdotted."
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?
Guard1: "its a BOMB!"
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Guard2: "Lie on the ground with your hands on your head and legs apart"
You: "but its just my computer server
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1. Take MacMini. 2. Place in Suitcase. 3. Turn on.
What if i had this server on my lap the moment slashdot linked to it?
Your skill in reading has increased by one point!
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?
If it weren't for Bush outsourcing all the IT jobs, nobody would NEED a server in their travel bag!
Before any liberals are tempted to mod up one of my comments, a word of warning: I'm actually making fun of you.
Did you notice that all pictures are linked through the nyud.net mirrors system ?
Someone told him that he was going to be slashdotted. That's not fair ! He was supposed to be melting by now !
Come on. If you are taking the time to build a server inside a suitcase and post the story on slashdot please take that extra second to remove any smelly slippers and crumbled brown paperbags out of the way before you take a picture.
Thank you.
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.
About four years ago, I met a gentlemen and his son while attending an InstallFest at Cleveland Linux Users Group meeting. He was carrying an old aluminum case similar to the pictures. It did not have the fancy neon, but it was similar in concept. It strictly has a Linux on it (I think it was Slackware, IIRC)
Anyway, this person and his son built it because the child frequently visited his grandmother who did not have a computer. So this child would bring the case along with him and have access to a computer.
I thought it was unusual, but very practical and self-contained. The parts were commodity parts that you can find in any catalog and were inexpensive. Last I heard, the man was planning to have a LCD panel integrated in it. Unfortunately, I lost contact when I decided to move. I wish I could show him this.
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I've been using laptops as onsite servers at conventions for ten years.
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I wanted a fileserver that was portable. I also wanted a backup. So I got two mini itx motherboards, a couple aluminium cd carring cases a few hard drives and I'm pretty happy with the result. I just add a new disk when the current one gets full and I rsync them nightly. I think I'll be able to get 8 disks in each eventually. That's 7 data and 1 for the operating system, my personal data, debian mirror, etc.
-- john
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.
A server with neon lights and a window? Id like to see a datacenter that would use this... Disco Datacenter?
Peep that
"It's like putting a server into a refrigerator. Makes no sense too.But has no heat-problems." Dude. You are so far from being in the light. A server in a fridge. Snacks?=Beer?=Server? That means, when some little kid breaks the print server, you can actually get excited about going to go fix it.
Am I the only one sick of all these whiners who complain about the articles on Slashdot?
/. on /., but you just come off as crybabies.
If you don't like the articles, don't read Slashdot, dammit.
You people think you're being cool by complaining about
I support the Center for Consumer Freedom
I have a Windows Server 2003 laptop I use to irritate the network at school (i.e. make it think it's a domain controller and override all my security settings)
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
"Server" and "neon lights" are mutually exclusive.
That thing kind of reminds me of the old Sniffer cases that in turn reminded me of the old Kaypros; kind of a suitcase-sized (as opposed to this thing's briefcase sized) PC.
I'm surprised no one has made an actual oversized laptop out of one, including the LCD display and some real hardware expansion capability.
Done right, you'd have a great on-site server for testing or crash repairs. You need something sized right to match a real server.
Fully fledged? WTF? So is this server capable of independent flight or is it covered with feathers?
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
I used to laugh at all those people that put lights inside their cases. Then I started watching Stargate. I quickly noticed that the Goa'uld, the Ancients, and pretty much every other technologically advanced race that SG-1 encounters also like to light up the insides of their equipment bays for no apparent reason. So maybe I'm just being a spoilsport.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
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.
In case you find this above poster's actions to be obnoxious and completely out of line, be sure not to visit him at home and tell him:
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Stings a little to have your privacy violated in front of tens of thousands, doesn't it?