Rajahal Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 ...this is his wedding gift Quote Link to comment
ccruzen Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Now the real question...what's inside? I'm assuming since you've made it, it's pretty sweet. Quote Link to comment
Heretic Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 looks like a great gift Quote Link to comment
Rajahal Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 It is a 9 drive server with all internal bays (uses the Antec 902 V2 case and three of the Antec 3-in-3 cages). Briefly, the parts list is: Biostar A760G M2+ Sempron 140 2 GB DDR2 800 RAM 2 port PCIe x1 SIL3132 card 2 port PCI card (runs the 9th drive and the eSATA port, so there shouldn't be any significant bottleneck issues) Corsair 430W PSU Various SATA cables, molex to SATA converters, etc. 2 GB Tuff n Tiny flash drive This is pretty much my friend's dream server, but I left some room for future upgrades/expansion, such as the PCI card. I figure some day he'll figure out why I love hot swap bays so much and upgrade to some 4-in-3s or 5-in-3s. Or maybe just 9 single hot swap bays, like my personal server has. This will be his first server. Quote Link to comment
jakebake Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I'm inviting you to my wedding Quote Link to comment
furymaster Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Darn. I'm married since 1999. Nobody even thought of a present like this. Sweet, and yes, he must be a very good friend! Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Darn. I'm married since 1999. Nobody even thought of a present like this. Sweet, and yes, he must be a very good friend! I got married in 1974. Nobody even thought of a present like this either Joe L. Quote Link to comment
neilt0 Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Darn. I'm married since 1999. Nobody even thought of a present like this. Sweet, and yes, he must be a very good friend! I got married in 1974. Nobody even thought of a present like this either Joe L. Quote Link to comment
theone Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Did his wife approve the gift? Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Darn. I'm married since 1999. Nobody even thought of a present like this. Sweet, and yes, he must be a very good friend! I got married in 1974. Nobody even thought of a present like this either Joe L. Just think how many punched cards it would take to equal a single 2TB drive... Quote Link to comment
furymaster Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Just think how many punched cards it would take to equal a single 2TB drive... Easy math: One Hollerith Punch Card had 80 Byte of information on it. 2 TB are 2,000,000,000,000 Byte So we need 25,000,000,000 cards. Given the thickness of one card (0.17 mm, just measured ) it would be a staple of cards having the height of 4,250,000,000 millimeters -> 42,500 kilometers. Which is roughly the circumference of the earth... God, I feel so old right now Quote Link to comment
PeterB Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 God, I feel so old right now Well, this is how I started programming! Quote Link to comment
guygg Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 In the unlikely event of me ending up married (not trying to knock any of y'all that are married, just stating how snugly I fit into the whole "tech nerd" demographic), I want more folks like Rajahal showing up to the event. Then again, my gift registries would probably be with ThinkGeek and Newegg. And yeah, it's bewildering when you try to wrap your mind around how far storage technology has come in recent decades. My mom (76 years old) has understandable difficulty grasping how stuff like ipods and smartphones store and do as much as they do. Never mind how the internet works... Quote Link to comment
Rajahal Posted March 2, 2011 Author Share Posted March 2, 2011 Did his wife approve the gift? I believe so. They both watch a lot of TV and movies together, so I figured it would benefit them both. I originally wanted to get her some cast iron cookware, but I didn't have time to make it to my favorite wok shop in San Francisco. Quote Link to comment
poofyhairguy Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Great wedding gift. Especially if it accidentally has some True Blood on the drives... Quote Link to comment
Rajahal Posted March 2, 2011 Author Share Posted March 2, 2011 That's the other issue - there's no drives in the server at the moment. I intend to give him a 1.5 TB 7200rpm Seagate out of my server, but the 2 TB Seagate LP that I was going to use to replace it turned out to be failing. So now I have to RMA that one, wait for the replacement, etc. He doesn't have enough spare drives to start moving stuff yet... Quote Link to comment
Nyago123 Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Nice... I didn't realize LimeTech had a gift registry Quote Link to comment
garys Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Wow - nice wedding gift. I don't remember any of my wedding gifts so I'm thinking none were as cool as that. I bet he remembers that one! Very cool. Quote Link to comment
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