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Homebuilt 19" Mini-ITX Server Rack
TykSak writes "I started to build this rack with Mini-ITX boards almost 3 years ago and today it holds four 3U servers with a total of 28 harddrives. I made this site to describe the process of the build."
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4 comments and already crawling. Guess we've melted a few of those hard drives then.
Wow that's soo cool having a server farm right beside where I sit. :)
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This 19" server is aimed at penetrating the porn market.
.. I guess we melted the Mini ITX boards he was hosting this on!
Seriously, why does crap like this always get modded funny? I guess I must be new here.
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It's nice building stuff on your own but this sort of hardware doesn't cut it when you're talking about servers, and I suspect with all the manpower the cost-per-server is actually *more* than if you'd bought it in its entirety.
Places like Sight Systems will quite happily spray-paint a case for you or even etch a logo into it, and the 2U cases they do will happily house reasonably cheap P4 boards (they even do fans for them).
Plus, 4U cases which take standard ATX PSUs are now less than £100 in the UK (you get to do the math if you don't live in the UK). Quite why "bloke makes a rackmount server using rackmount bits" makes Slashdot I don't know.
Oh well. Maybe I'm just getting old.
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bad jokes?
Given they run cool
I once told a mate that the VIA processor on my Mini-ITX board was good because it ran cool. He wanted to know where he could download it...
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Nice rack!
Thanks, I'll be here all week...
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I have been looking around for info to build such a thing. I'd like to have 1TB of raid-protected storage for a digital video recorder. Performance is not an issue, but I would like it to be quiet, lowpower, and not too bi
Perhaps this is what you are looking for ?
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"A little info! A "U" is the measured height of a server case 1U is 44.45mm (1.75inches) 19 inches is 482,6mm"
Actually, the historical roots of the U are traced back to Bonnie Scotland. The U was the designation of how many sheep could be stuffed into the small slot of a server rack. The server rack would then be set afire as the rack doubled as a barbecue on the weekends. (This is where Al Gore studied the creation of the internet incidentally) The phrase "rack of ribs" was also coined in Bonnie Scotland during the infamous "Troy McLure Cuefest of '79" (1879) during a rendition of "Laddie, fetch me ha'notharack o them ribs" performed by, who else, The Scotsmen.
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After working on this project on and off for over 2 years I'm quite happy and that I finally finished it
Especially since - in those two years - the cost of rack systems has fallen into your price range.
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19" rack for servers - $3000.
1 U server - $1500 (nicely equiped).
1 Disk drive (of many) for 4 terrabyte server - $200.
Weeks to load with content - 5.
Look at admin's face when a new 4 TB software raid fails - Priceless.
YEAH! FSCK THE SYSTEM!
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