bigdaddy5414
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I haven't posted on here for several months since I moved from doing business out of my home into an actual store front back in May. Too bad I mostly deal with older stuff as that is what needs repairs.
My desk has downgraded to a smaller table as I needed the large countertop for work space.
This used to be my desk at home, a 10 foot coutertop.
Made some more work spaces when I moved in here using 8 foot pieces.
Usually where laptops are disasembled.
Where I do my soldering and phones/tablets
And my new fun room at the shop. The server rack full of mostly used stuff that I enjoy playing around with. It is all still under contstruction as I have been working on maxing out every server with the most it can handle. maximum processors, max memory, etc. A couple of them are 4 processor machines and the rest are all 2. With the exception of the only new piece in there which is a Xeon 1230v3 machine on a Supermicro X10Sl7-F board with the LSI controller onboard.
So no wire management isn't really good at this point, but things are being moved around as rails and stuff come in as some stuff is just stacked on top of each other.
An old blade server with 20 blades installed, and I have 10 more laying in a box.
Below that is An HP dual proccessor machine that is my router running pFsense. I have a block of 16 static IPs here and the standard modem just couldnt handle the job very well. Well this does no problem and cpu usage is almost always 0-3% lol. Squid does caching so frequently visited sites are very fast, as well as caching things like windows updates so they don't have to keep downloading for every computer needing them that i work on.
Then there is another HP below that, but it is currently doing nothing but sitting pretty.
APC 3000VA UPS on top of a smaller 1500VA model that wasn't big enough for the task as I kept adding... Batteries are just pulled out of it at the moment. I added the network management card so i can monitor it from anywhere and it will send out signals to shut down machines when runtime drops below 5 minutes.
And the 1230V3 tower below the UPS's that has 7 3TB drives inside running FreeNAS and Plex/Sickbeard/Transmission pluggins.
On the bottom is an IBM X Server with 4 quad core processors and 32GB RAM. Wish I never purchased it, it eats up loads of power.
48 port gigabit smart switch and a 16 port Foundry ServerIron XL switch underneath. The power strip is double sided and the inside is filled.
The Dell Poweredge will become my web server when a part comes in for it. Bad stick of memory on the RAID controller.
And the mess on the back side...
My desk has downgraded to a smaller table as I needed the large countertop for work space.
This used to be my desk at home, a 10 foot coutertop.
Made some more work spaces when I moved in here using 8 foot pieces.
Usually where laptops are disasembled.
Where I do my soldering and phones/tablets
And my new fun room at the shop. The server rack full of mostly used stuff that I enjoy playing around with. It is all still under contstruction as I have been working on maxing out every server with the most it can handle. maximum processors, max memory, etc. A couple of them are 4 processor machines and the rest are all 2. With the exception of the only new piece in there which is a Xeon 1230v3 machine on a Supermicro X10Sl7-F board with the LSI controller onboard.
So no wire management isn't really good at this point, but things are being moved around as rails and stuff come in as some stuff is just stacked on top of each other.
An old blade server with 20 blades installed, and I have 10 more laying in a box.
Below that is An HP dual proccessor machine that is my router running pFsense. I have a block of 16 static IPs here and the standard modem just couldnt handle the job very well. Well this does no problem and cpu usage is almost always 0-3% lol. Squid does caching so frequently visited sites are very fast, as well as caching things like windows updates so they don't have to keep downloading for every computer needing them that i work on.
Then there is another HP below that, but it is currently doing nothing but sitting pretty.
APC 3000VA UPS on top of a smaller 1500VA model that wasn't big enough for the task as I kept adding... Batteries are just pulled out of it at the moment. I added the network management card so i can monitor it from anywhere and it will send out signals to shut down machines when runtime drops below 5 minutes.
And the 1230V3 tower below the UPS's that has 7 3TB drives inside running FreeNAS and Plex/Sickbeard/Transmission pluggins.
On the bottom is an IBM X Server with 4 quad core processors and 32GB RAM. Wish I never purchased it, it eats up loads of power.
48 port gigabit smart switch and a 16 port Foundry ServerIron XL switch underneath. The power strip is double sided and the inside is filled.
The Dell Poweredge will become my web server when a part comes in for it. Bad stick of memory on the RAID controller.
And the mess on the back side...
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