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Speed-Assembling Servers
Nieriko writes "The Planet is holding competitions to speed-assemble rack-mounted servers. It's like watching latter-day Marines field-strip and assemble their weapons. There is a video on YouTube about this incredible contest. Looks pretty challenging."
Well, his time is a little off, because the guy's first attempt didn't register on his iphone...
With a lanyard their shirts probably don't read like they wanted to.
On top of that, look at the blue snap-in parts. This is a Dell. Hardly a single screw to bother with in there even if he did it from individual parts. Motherboard, drives, fan, even the CPU in many cases, just snaps in place.
coffee | nose > keyboard
I can go from a collection of parts to a desktop running Windows in under 15 minutes using a prepared disk image on a USB stick.
Servers are actually a bit easier to deal with than that, since the layout is more open. On a Tyan GT20 (a barebones server platform) there's probably about three minutes of work involved in sticking in the CPUs, RAM and hard drives. If I had a prepared disk image for one I could probably get one of those running in 10 - 15 minutes. The hardest part of the whole thing would be getting the machine into the rack.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
Seriously, you couldn't come up with something original?
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"It's like watching latter-day Marines field-strip and assemble their weapons."
umm...no, it was not like that at all. It was more like watching a guy plug in a usb cable.
As a former Dell Server operator, systems of that type were expected to be built in 8 to 10 minutes from motherboard install, rear fan, processor, heatsink, ram, CD drive(s), floppy drive, harddrive(s)and cards. And a quick test to make sure it boots. And the guy in the video forgot to connect the floppy drive.