Hardware Pr0n
March 13th, 2007 at 5:42 pmSo the new parts for Gibson, my colocated server, showed up today. A 70 lbs. 3u server case, 2 hard drives, some cpu coolers, and a wicked awesome raid card (Areca 1230, google it.)
So, I had to transfer all the old parts that I was keeping into the new case and install the new parts as well. Here’s the after math photos:
Previous Server carcass
An overview of the “workspace” table
The front of the server. 8 hotswap sata drive bays *drool*
currently occupied by 2 150gb raptors and 2 WD RE2 400gb’ers — both sets will be in Raid 1
Taller heat sinks of the dual 285 opterons
These fans have a spot in the fan cage where the power sits so you can just swap the fan in and out without fussing with in-case wires. A joyous thing.
The current four drives all plugged in — the card has spots for up to 12 drives.
The SATA hotswap backplate interface
An overview of Gibson 2.0
I’m excited. Now Fedora just needs to finish downloading faster…
2007/03/13 at 5:45 pm #
zomg Jeff.. This rocks
Wish I had one!! Nice work
2007/03/13 at 5:47 pm #
My God, Thank You Jeff/Chuy, I was actually about to ask you for Pics of it
!!
2007/03/13 at 5:49 pm #
That is one large, sexy beast.
2007/03/13 at 5:59 pm #
i would give them hardrives a rimjob
2007/03/13 at 6:10 pm #
Dude. Now THAT is a rack!
2007/03/14 at 12:35 am #
Chuy, I drool at your 1337ness.
2007/03/14 at 5:10 am #
Yum. Is it wrong that I want to make sweet, sweet love to your server?
2007/03/14 at 6:52 am #
Yay! Finally!
2007/03/14 at 6:55 am #
Oh so that’s what this hole is for.
2007/03/14 at 10:57 am #
I’d hit it.
2007/03/14 at 12:43 pm #
Gibson2.0 is a very fine looking machine! Keep at it, and before you know it, BF2S will be back up and be better than ever before (esp. in reliability) with Gibson2.0 backing it up! (I know this isn’t BF2S, but) +1 for the good work
As the karma might not be enough, when you get the BF2S site back up I will donate some CA$H (via paypal) as your dedication to your server, the site, and BF2S fan base deserves an equally great reward!
2007/03/14 at 2:30 pm #
pfft… What a waste of a pool table.
2007/03/14 at 2:41 pm #
wow that Server is HOT. Thank you for the hard work. +1000
2007/03/14 at 2:49 pm #
This is amazing. We missed you (it). [
2007/03/14 at 2:53 pm #
Looks like a nice setup, glad you got it back up… I know how it feels when you spends hours upgrading a server and it just won’t go. Good work!
2007/03/14 at 3:17 pm #
The last pic where you have glimpse of all that RAM… *Drool*
Nice work
R
2007/03/14 at 3:51 pm #
Excellent work Smithers.
I hope you have a big garbage can for all that packaging.
And thanks for all the work you do for us forum addicts
You da man dawg! ..errr…wookie, err whatever 
Rawr!
2007/03/14 at 5:00 pm #
Still hard to believe the whole shooting match runs from one server … well done …
2007/03/14 at 5:11 pm #
It’s a pretty beefy server
2007/03/14 at 5:50 pm #
What a pain in the ass that must have been.
And do I ask why it looks like you had computer fan mounted to the filing cabinet?
Were you herd up for a computer case at one time?
Hell, I would have done it.
By the way GJ.
2007/03/14 at 7:07 pm #
It’s Ryan here. Thought I’d post something too.
Nice pictures, great work, yet again.
Can’t thank you enough Chuy, nice work!
2007/03/14 at 10:09 pm #
Thanks for all the hard work.
2007/03/15 at 6:02 am #
Holy….
Great work chuy!
2007/03/15 at 8:06 am #
finally i can stop pressing F5 every 10 minutes.
2007/03/15 at 8:45 am #
it looks like you had computer fan mounted to the filing cabinet
Back in the day it was the file server … in the file cabinet! Rockin’ p3, 256mb, 40gig hd. It was my first little linux server where I got my roots. Fitting that it’s remnants held the new hotness.
2007/03/15 at 11:19 am #
Nice work, best god danm stats site around. Keep it up
2007/03/15 at 7:00 pm #
Awesome job getting the hardware put together. This is a really nice stats site. Extremely helpful. Keep up the great work.
2007/03/16 at 12:20 am #
Nice work, Jeff, really nice work. That’s what I call a “real” server.
2007/03/16 at 5:30 am #
mate,great job and fck me thats a sweet looking setup
2007/03/16 at 7:01 pm #
Hay man very cool server man keep up ypur good work, that you do for everyone. wolf49
2007/03/18 at 1:28 pm #
Does this mean that you can now address the nasty bug in live-comment-preview I emailed you about (with fix) on the 5th?
2007/03/21 at 7:29 pm #
My I would have to say that in a couple of the pictures I spy a Logitech z5500 Control pod and speaker! The man knows decent sound for an unbelievable price too!!
Oh and Awesome job. keep up the good work. And don’t ever EVER get rid of that filing cabinet.. One day they may have a spot for that in the Smithsonian!
2007/03/23 at 4:06 pm #
Amazing, Thanks a million for your hard work and your desire to make things better for us nerds :)haha keep it up!!
2007/03/29 at 6:51 pm #
Sweet Server dude keep up the good work
2007/04/01 at 5:24 pm #
That pool table looks just like my parents’!
I had a question about Favitars, but I didn’t see where to ask on the plugin’s website.
I get this as the name of the plugin:
” title=”Visit plugin homepage”>Favatars
I’m about to activate it, hopefully the rest works, as it’s exactly what I was hoping to find.
2007/04/01 at 5:28 pm #
Ugh, it murdered my blog,
I’m going to see if I can get it to revert somehow, or dig up a backup.
littl’ help?
2007/04/01 at 5:40 pm #
OK, I got my blog back just by changing the name on the half-installed plugin. If you have time to point me in the right direction for getting the plugin debugged, that would be very nice of you.
2007/05/14 at 11:34 pm #
*rubs one out*
omg its so sexy
2007/05/23 at 2:46 am #
Nice site!
2007/05/26 at 1:56 pm #
PR0N PR0N PR0n !!
2007/05/31 at 2:03 pm #
I’m not jealous. Grrrr!! There poor old me with a little old AMD64 and a HP DL140. Guessing you get free colocation, what with going from 1u to 3u.
Anyway nice kit. I would have used Seagate HDD tho really. And had RAID-10
Meh.. Still cool. No-one these days build server. Even though it is fun
2007/06/06 at 5:42 pm #
kids and their toys..
real server: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/
real storage: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/news/center/disk/enterprise/
that is a nice crontroller though, but i’d rather go RAID10 instead of straight 1 and used four raptors.
2007/06/06 at 7:55 pm #
Well, anonymous, if you’d like to donate $25,000 I’d be more than happy to upgrade the machine.
2007/06/10 at 12:06 pm #
I dont think bf2s needs 512 tb of data. Jeff’s machine is nice enough already. But hey theres nothing wrong with a bf2s supercomputer
2007/06/15 at 8:50 am #
I think anyone would like 125TB but V.V. few people would need that. IBM… yuck.. Sun Microsystem
Jeff you must have made a bit on the site to afford that anyway!
2007/07/07 at 11:12 am #
Wow! Very Nice Man!
2007/07/19 at 8:26 pm #
Wow! Great looking machine man! If you ever use windows OS on this I’ll hunt you down and kill you!
2007/07/19 at 10:18 pm #
Ha, windows can’t even address that much raw awesomeness (aka, ram)
2007/07/28 at 2:33 pm #
Don’t scuff the felt!!
2007/07/28 at 3:25 pm #
Man, that table spent a winter…outside. The quality of the table/felt is over very little concern. Heh.
2007/10/09 at 2:51 pm #
All this and it still failed… :/
2007/10/09 at 2:57 pm #
BTW how much RAM do you have in it? 16GB?
2007/10/10 at 5:17 pm #
“Ha, windows can’t even address that much raw awesomeness (aka, ram)”
Sure it can, it’s called Windows 2003 Data center R2 upgrade to SP 2 can hadle
* 2 TB of RAM (64-bit versions, SP2)
2007/10/13 at 8:17 am #
Pffft, we wanted a porn tape, not a server.
2007/10/15 at 2:00 am #
Great news! Good Luck.
2007/10/15 at 11:25 am #
yaaaaaaaaaaaaay! great job. great rack! can I have sloppy seconds? i’m playing with my hard drive right now! thanks for all the patiens and hard work. lets see that baby in action soon!
2007/10/17 at 7:26 pm #
HOLY SHIT DUDE!!!!!!!NICE……not that it is any of my business but how much do one of these things cost…….and i hope you get your site back up man that is a killer one…i getn tired of the others.NICE WORK
2007/10/19 at 6:41 pm #
im just as horny as everyone else
2007/10/26 at 12:35 pm #
Hey Jeff, I have much experience with the Gibsons Webserver. What linux O/S are you going to be running? I have a copy of Redhat Webserver Business ‘06 that I don’t need. A full purchased copy. Can handle unlimited tb of Ram… SWEET!
Would very much like to help!
-Uber
2007/10/30 at 1:03 am #
Nice work , not only do you have a great rig , your work on the BF2 stats sight clearly outranks all others . You should be working for EA
2007/10/30 at 5:05 am #
He is… Lol.
2007/10/30 at 1:51 pm #
Heh, answered before I even got a chance
Yeah, I do work for EA now. Actually, I work for DICE, who runs the BF series. EA just likes to put their name on our stuff ;D
2008/08/13 at 6:09 pm #
noice work when are u gonna make some posts on bf2s