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How Does Your Personal Data Center Measure Up?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the si-per-ft^2 dept.

tachijuan asks: "My job allows me too meet many technically inclined people. Invariably we get to talking about our home setups. I've run across some very sophisticated setups. Some people I've met have enough computing and storage resources to have themselves classified as large data centers. They run this at home, and usually just for the hell of it. How do the setups of Slashdot readers measure up?" How many pieces of networked digital equipment do you have at home? "Here's a description of mine:
  1. 1 x RedHat 9 quad processor PIII Xeon web server+other general duties stuff
  2. 1 x FC3 router/VPN server
  3. 1 x Astaro secure unix firewall/external router
  4. 1 x FC3 email ( http://zimbra.com/ ) server + backup server
  5. 1 x Mac G3 OSX 10.3.9 print server
  6. 1 x WinXP print server/general use machine
  7. 1 x WinXP general purpose home machine + TIVO media center server
  8. 1 x UltraSparc 10, Solaris 9, play machine + web server
  9. 2 x WinXP laptops
  10. 1 x Apple PowerBook 17"
  11. 1 x NetApp 630 with 1.1TB of disk serving both NFS and CIFS
  12. 2 x external USB 200GB drives for backups of main data in NetApp DCF
  13. 3 x inkjet printers scattered around the house
  14. 1 x 8 port GigE main DCF backbone switch
  15. 1 x 32 port Etherport III main home network switch
  16. 1 x WRT54G switch providing high speed network for interal home use
  17. 1 x befw11s4 switch + range extender for slow-speed, high range, general home use
  18. 1 x TIVO!
  19. 4 x spare machines laying around waiting to be purposed
By the standards of some of the people I've run accross, this is not much. To my non-techie friends, this seems either extravagant, puzzling, or both."

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  1. Terabytes by tsa · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here at work I have a group of around 20 people. We are happy with our 120 GB network disk that contains all our data (and is backed up regularly). At home I have around 2.5 GB of data I backup regularly. I always wonder how in the world people need a Terabyte or more just for their own data? How the hell can you fill that amount of space with `legal' data?

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