What's in your server?
- Just wondering what people have under the hood?
My Server:
AMD Athlon XP 3000
2GB Crucial PC3200
4 WD 250GB HDD's- Changed TypeJonas Svensson -HSBS-MSFT, OwnerSaturday, October 25, 2008 11:48 PM
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- My Server:
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (Palamino Core, 266FSB)
ECS K7S5A
512mb DDR-266
80gb Samsung Spinpoint
DVD/CD-RW
Radeon 7500 (hey, it works :))
Netgear FA311 (just for testing)
Might end up shifting to a cheap S754 Setup, for the extra IDE/SATA Channels. That and a new/bigger case. My former doorstop:
PIII 1Ghz
512 PC100
Belkin SATA150 PCI
2 x 320GB WDSATA
DVD/RW
Nvidia VGA Adapter (can't recall model- installed this old coaster in place of AIW9700pro to reduce heat/power loads)I was pleasantly surprised to find no perceptible performance hits using such minimal hardware. Even during backups the system shares music with other network stations with no lag issues, etc.
AMD Athlon X2 4400+ (Toledo Core)
Foxcon 6150K8MA (Micro ATX)
4 x Patriot 512MB PC3200 RAM
4X WD Caviar SE16 500GB Hard Drives
Athena Power 3x5.25 4 slot SATA back plane drive cage
Athenatech MicroATX Mini Tower w/400 Watt supply
Intel 1000/Pro PCI
All from Newegg.com. The system looks like HP's OEM unit all self contained with hotswap drives. It is quiet and just works great. Onboard VGA since I don't need anything powerfull. 1.82TB of storage, dual core with 2GB of memory.I loaded it up with an External DVD/RW thru USB and didn't have a lick of problems. I can't wait for the final release, so far WHS is an awsom product. If it wern't for my home Exchange server I have running, I would dump my AD/Exchange and just run the WHS.
My Home Server:
Shuttle SS51G (http://eu.shuttle.com/archive/en/ss51g.htm#ss51g) with FS51 Mobo (http://eu.shuttle.com/archive/en/fs51.htm#mainboardfs5)
Intel Celeron 1.7 GHz
Encore ENLADP-402 2x SATA, 4x USB PCI Adapter (http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16815153004)
512 MB G.Skill PC3200
80 GB WD PATA
4x 500gb LaCie External "Design by FA Porche" drives (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8188025&st=lacie+500&lp=3&type=product&cp=1&id=1164155963846)- I'm using a Dell GX150...
PIII 933
512MB SDram
Onboard IDE
Promise Ultra 66 IDE
2 80G WD drives
200G Segate drive
Onboard Video
I've not noticed any performance difficulty. Works quite well... (and very quiet :) This is the first time I have built a PC of any description:
Asus Pundit P3-PH4 with 1GB RAM
Intel Pentium D 820 (2.8GHz)
Asus Quiet Track DVD ROM
Hitachi Deskstar 500GB SATA-II
Western Digital 250GB SATA-II
Everything went together really well and installing WHS was straight forward.
My Server:
Intel P4 3.0GhZ
1.5 Gigs of Ram
1 150 GB WD Internal HDD
1 150 GB Seagate External HDD
Asus p4t-533C
3.06 GHz HT P4
1 GB RD-RAM
1 80 GB Maxtor PATA Primary
1 500 GB Seagate SATA Secondary
1 intel Gbit LAN PCI
1 Adaptec 2940UW PCI
1 DLT 40/80
1 LG DVD ROM
Have read about the problems with tape drives/ NT Backup so I have not yet explored that part of it. If I can't use NT Backup, I might use backup exec 10d that I have left over from another system.
has anyone tried that?
Mine's the guts of an MCE upgrade I was planning until I remembered that my Silverstone HTPC case doesn't have a PCI-E riser
- DFI Lanparty M-ATX with ATI R200 chipset
- Athlon 64 3200+
- 2GB DDR RAM (Elixir)
- 2 x 160GB and 1 x 250GB SATA drives
- LG DVD-ROM
I got a cheap M-ATX case to throw it all in and bedecked it with quiet fans. It runs happily and (thankfully) very quietly in my lounge, sharing my files, music and printers and giving me a nice half a terabyte of storage.
Dell PowerEdge 840
Dual Core 915 Processor, 2x2MB Cache, 2.8 GHz, Pentium D, 533MHz FSB
2 GB DDR, 553MHz
2 160GB, SATA 7200RPM- AMD Athlon XP 3000
512 MB Generic PC3200
MSI KT6V
2 80GB WD IDE
1 40GB Seagate IDE
1 120GB WD IDE
1 Samsung DVD-RW
Good old floppy just for fun!
3com Etherlink 905c tx - i hate onboard lan
Possible additions
Highpoint Rocket 133sb IDE controller
2 250GB Seagate IDE
2 250GB Seagate SATA
512MB PC3200 - 2.4Ghz Pentium 4
2.5GB RAM
4x 250GB Western Digital 7200RPM dirves
Dual BroadCom Gigabit Ethernet NIC's
Used a USB 2.0 DVD drive to install Windows Home Server.
This actually used to be a Adaptec SnapServer 4500. I have
Asus P4S800D-E with P4 2.8B
2 x 256mb DDR memory
ATI 9200
Highpoint RocketRaid 133
Promise TX4
3 x 500g WD SATA
2 x 320g WD SATA
1 x 300g WD PATA
6 x 200g WD PATA
Seasonic 430w PSUWill probably change to a Corsir 620w PSU
- p4 2.4ghz
2 gig pc2700 ddr
1 x 120 gig hd
1 x 200 gig hd
Radeon 9800 Pro
Gigabit lan
nec dvdrw Dell GX260 (P4 2.8GHz)
1GB RAM
120 GB Internal
100 GB Internal
500 GB External
600 GB External
I have another 5 250 GB drives I'll be adding once the product goes gold
- How much of a pain was it to get the highpoint to run..i've had a ton of problems finding drivers for mine. The only driver i have is for w2k.
Athlon XP 2600+
1GB RAM
4* 120GB HDD on a Secondary IDE Controller
2* 80 GB HDD (one as System Disc)
1* DVD-ROM
GeForce 4200TI AGP
Fritz! DSL (ISDN + DSL) but inactive at this time
on a Socket A Board with a VIA Chipset
BrianH33 wrote: I have
Asus P4S800D-E with P4 2.8B
2 x 256mb DDR memory
ATI 9200
Highpoint RocketRaid 133
Promise TX4
3 x 500g WD SATA
2 x 320g WD SATA
1 x 300g WD PATA
6 x 200g WD PATA
Seasonic 430w PSUWill probably change to a Corsir 620w PSU
Dude thats just sick!
Duron 1.6ghz
512 DDR266
320 gb maxtor IDE, 250gb maxtor IDE, 60 gb maxtor IDE
fx5700LE
PCChips M811LU (i think, its the only socket A i could find)
ECS LM7???? mATX
Onboard Vid/Lan/Sound300W Aopen power supply
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512 Mb DDR 266
Pioneer DVD Rom
WD 40GB PATA (x6)
APC UPS
- This is awesome to read! :-)
- An ever so tiny (a little bigger than a Mac mini) Acer Aspire L310 w/Celeron D 352 (3.2GHz) 512MB, Gigbit ethernet, slot loading DVD and a 160GB internal HD.
- Mine:-
Old Mini tower case
350w enermax ps
Asus P4b, 2Ghz P4 Celeron
768MB ram
Nvidia Riva tnt2 Model 64 pro
4 Port USB 2.0 adapter
1Gb ethernet
Highpoint Rocket Raid 454 (non-raid on drives)
6 * 250GB HD (pata) - on rocketraid
2 * 320GB HD (pata) - on motherboard
1 * 120GB HD (pata) Boot
no floppy
no dvd
APC Smart UPS 1500 (usb connection)
Only have room for 2 more Hard Drives! My Server
Case from a Dell gx280
MB from a Dell gx260
cpu out of a old Systemax p4 1.6
1 gig Kingston ddr2 memory
3 WD hd 320g, 250g, 160g
Dell dvdrom
Dell Optiplex systems are really easy to work on.
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
512MB PC2700 DDR RAM
300GB HD
- AMD Athlon64 2800+ s754 (1.8ghz stock OC'd to 2.2ghz)
1.5GB DDR400 RAM
2x 80GB HDD's in RAID 0
Radeon 9800PRO
Enermax 460w PSU
ECS 755-A2
AMD K6-2 (200mhz OC'd to 333mhz)
320mb PC100 SDRAM
20gb HDD
450w Generic PSU
Radeon 7500 (with tv ports :D)
Some ancient MSI motherboard which i have yet to identify....
The K6 runs like a champ My "almost" complete server....
AMD Athlon AM2 3000
512mb Generic 667 RAM
1 x 40gb HDD
1 x 250gb HDD
11 (or so) year old Intel slot one with a 1.4 Evergreen add in processor (remember those?)
1 Gig of SDRAM (100).
It runs quite nicely if I do say so.
1-250 Gig and 1-80 Gig drive.
Add in USB 2 card.
Bob
My server:
AMD Athlon 1200MHz
2x512MB PC100 SDRAM
DFI AK75-EC Motherboard
Seagate 80GB 7200rpm HDD (2MB cache) (PATA Pri-Master)
Matrox Millenium G2 PCI Video Card (who cares, it's a headless server)
No-name Realtek 8139 100Base-TX NIC
Lite-on 16x DVD-ROM Drive (PATA Sec-Master)And I'm about to start experimenting with an external USB PATA drive (it's only 10GB, but I'm only testing).
Not as impressive as some, but it's more than enough for testing. And hey, if I end up using this after it goes gold... I'll pimp it!
Antec Sonata Case - Ebony Black
Antec 350W PSU
P4 3.2 GHz
ASUS P4B MB
2 GB DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 7000 AGP Video
2 x Seagate 300 GB, 7200 RPM, 16 MB buffer HDD's [both set to cable select off the primary IDE]
2 x Hot Swap Cages - Kingwin Black **Great buy at 18 dollars each**
1 x Sony DVD Burner [Secondary Master]
1 x 3.5 Floppy
1 x 3.5 bay media reader w/custom icons for each media type
1 x Adaptec USB 2.0/1394 Firewire Controller added for BETA test
1 x 3COM GB Server NIC
1 x APC 1500 Watt UPS [W2K3's Power Management used to manage controlled shutdown]For now, the server is connected to an LCD, KB and Mouse; however, the server's BIOS is set to allow it to run as a headless appliance. The server was purpose built for the WHS BETA program.
Old PC I had lying around;
Pentium 4, 2.4GHz
512MB memory
1 x 30GB IDE
1 x 18GB IDE - one plan it to see how easy it is to replace this later
Nvida GeForce FX5900
- Dell GX520
P4 2.4
512mb DDR2
40gb SATA
Will probably custom build something out of bits lying around when I get time Hello,
I'm using an old DELL GX260. I only replaced the 20Go HD by a 160Go and the CD drive by a DVD burner.
I added 512Mb of memory so my WHS have 768Mb.
WHS works perfectly without any external driver. The sound card is not recognized but I disabled it.
Bye,
hello, whats in my server
P4 2.66
1Gig Ram
1 250gb ide
1 160gb ide
1 80gb ide
Dvd drives taken out.
i would have put more drives in, but as backup won't work for me there seems to be little point. If backup worked i was planning on adding 2 x 500gb.
My Frankenserver:
- abit KN9 mobo (Socket AM2, nVidia Gigabit ethernet)
- Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2.6 GHz)
- 2 x 512MB Corsair DDR2 800 RAM (PC2 6400)
- 2 x 500 GB Seagate Barracudas (7,200 RPM - SATA 3.0 Gb/s)
- Maxtor 250GB external USB 2 drive
- Lite-on 20x DVD/CD Burner (salvaged from old MCE box)
- ATI Radeon X300 PCI-e (also from old MCE box)
- Xion II XON-101 Mid Tower Case
Install was totally painless.
- AMD Athlon Barton 2500+ cpu with CoolerMaster Jet 7 HSF
- ABit KV7 motherboard
- 1GB Corsair DDR400 RAM
- Sapphire ATi Rage Pro 128 32MB GFX (so it's headless, why waste MBs?)
- 160GB Seagate Barracuda ATA HDD
- Liteon 48x DVD-Rom
- Thermaltake 420W Silent Purepower PSU
Or it will be when I've swapped the GFX out from my 2nd Desktop with a 128MB 9200. Since it's going to be headless I see no reason for for it to have better graphics.
@dave87: Have you got your FA311 running OK? I can't find drivers that my install likes...
My Server:
Dell Precision 340,
1.5 GHz P4
768 MB RAM (RIMM)
2 x 300 GB Samsung ('cos they're quiet)
I think I have a very Thin Home Server!
I want my Home Server to be very small and low-power...how far can you go?
HP t5700 Thin Client
1GHz Transmeta Crusoe TM8500
512Mb RAM
120Gb 2,5" Harddrive in the box (no flash memory)
75Gb USB harddrive.
And no problems it works to my surprise :-)
- Runs like a dream
Intel P4 2.6GHz HT
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9200
NEC AD7170A 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
Western Digital Raptor 36GB WD360ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache (Bit of a mistake on the main system drive going to be relaced with drive below)
Maxtor Diamondmax +10 6B200M0 200GB SATA 8MB Cache
Adaptec AAR-1420SA Serial ATA HostRAID Controller
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Samsung SpinPoint T HD321KJ 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
Maxtor Diamondmax 21 320GB STM3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
All housed in
Arctic Cooling T1 Pro Case w/ 500 Watt AX500-F Active PFC - Intel 845 Motherboard
Intel P4 2.4GHZ
1GB Ram
Promise SATA 300 TX4
Icy Dock 5 Port Enclosure
3 x Seagate 250GB SATA 3.0 Drives
DVD-Rom
Floppy(to load Promise drivers)
550W Rosewill PSU
Intel Pro 1000 NIC Pentium M 1.8Ghz
512MB DDR 400
100GB HD
DVD-ROM
Highpoint RocketRaid 464
3 x 200 GB HD
2 x 250 GB HD
- Via c3 700, 512 ram, 120 gig seagate.
MB ASUS M2NPV-VM GF6150 AM2
CPU AMD|A64 X2 3600+ AM2 1.9G 65N
MEM 1G|PATRIOT DII800 PSD21G8002 R
PSU SEASONIC|S12-430 RT
CPU COOLER ZALMAN|CNPS 9500 AM2 RTL
CASECOOLERMAS|CAC-T05-UW BLK RT
HD 320G|ST 7K 16M SATA2 ST3320620AS
I wanted a mobo with an integrated graphics adaptor. Works just fine.
P3 600 mHz ,
PNY PC100/133 ram 256x2=512,
Lite-On DVD/DL/CDR/W drive,
Seagate Baracuda 200 gig ATA-133 drive (primary)
Seagate Baracuda 80 gig (secondary-for WHS backups)
Mobo-GCT Supertek P3VFA (circa 2000-2001?),
New 10/100 D-link Ethernet card,
Unknown vid card (old as the mobo and does not really matter. It's headless anyway..LOL),
Removed sound card and modem to prevent conflicts.
Connected to a Linksys WRT54G v6.0 gateway/router. Using the Linksys DNS forwarding via the built in DDNS feature and a free account with www.dyndns.com for remote access. Could not be any easier!
Full size, generic ATX case with one exiting Vantec Stealth case fan. Nice and quite. Minimal power consumption. May put it in the basement or closet if it continues to work dependably.....
Honestly, it works great with this old minimal setup. No lag or issues. Now, once it runs for a spell, I may invest in newer mobo, chip, ram and some sata's. But for now, it cruises just fine for my needs.
Cheap Rosewill case with added front fan for HDD longevity
D865GSA Intel MoBo
Pentium-D Presler 2.8Ghz
512Mb Corsair Econo RAM
WD 250Gb SATA
WD 500Gb SATA
Old & slow DVD-RW
550Va CyberPower UPS
Coming from Newegg this week:
Rosewill SATA adaptor PCI card
WD 500Gb SATA
It lives in a under the house storage area. Retired an 800Mhz PII XPhome box that was a kludged together home server. Ever in beta form WHS is way better than my old Frankenstein.
CPU: Athlon 1800+
Motherboard: K7N266-VM (Nforce1 based)
Ram: 768meg 266mhz ddr
Network card: D-link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Primary drive: Samsung 80gig pata
Secondary: Seagate 200gig pata
Third: Seagate 400gig pata
Fourth: Lite-on DVDRW
notes: you shoulden't use nforce1 boards for WHS, as nVidia never produced windows 2003 drivers for it.
Traacer wrote: How much of a pain was it to get the highpoint to run..i've had a ton of problems finding drivers for mine. The only driver i have is for w2k. No it was not, Highpoint (and Promise as well) had drivers for Win 2003. I took this to be Win 2003 server. I downloaded and installed them. No problem.
I've not had much luck so far!
I had an old twin PIII-768 with 1.25 GB RAM I was pleased to find a use for, but when I hit problems during install discovered that the BIOS has a drive size limit of 128GB, so only saw half the new HDD I'd got for it. Couldn't find an upgrade anywhere.
No matter, I had a P4 2GHz machine with 512MB RAM I'd not used for a while. Fine for 30 seconds, then locked solid. Every time. Changed everything except the board and processor.
Third time unlucky, an old AMD 1.2 GHz machine with 1GB RAM. Did absolutely nothing except power up the drives - not even a waggle on the graphics line.
So... looks like a trip to the local computer fair on Sunday....
I was kinda tempted by one of Dell's cheap server deals, but I already have one decent one, running a couple of virtual servers, and as WHS will only be with us in this form for a little while, it seemed a bit overkill - especially as my main PC is an x64 box and so won't be participating.
My Server:
AMD 64 3400
2GB Ram
2 WD 200GB HDD's
- I revived some older hardware for the beta program and it has been stable and working well for my needs. I see many people are using fairly high powered hardware for their server but for basic file sharing and backup for 2 users my old dusty parts seem to be up to the task.
The server consists of a 1.2ghz Celeron on a Soyo 7VBA133U board with 512Mb ram.
The main system drive is a 40GB UDMA5 Maxtor drive, and then I added 2 250GB WD SATA drives (dirt cheap!) via Siig raid controller after the install. The controller only supports SATA 1.5.
The lan nics for the server and main desktop machine are DLink DGE530T gigabit adapters connected via DLink DGS1005D switch. By the way this switch is supposed to support jumbo frames, but actually my version apparently does not after experimentation.
Both server and main desktop are multi-homed in an frutile effort to improve network speed. No gateway is specified for either gigabit adapter.
The WAN nics are basic 10/100 cards.
Two other machines are connected via 54Mbs wireless links through a Netgear WGT300N router. One is an old HP desktop tucked away in a downstairs spare bedroom and the other is an HP notebook.
All machines are running XP home and all have backed up on schedule without error for the past 2 weeks.
I am currently using about 300GB of harddrive space for the backups.
iPerf is running on the WHS. From the main desktop I can only manage about 210 Mbs via large .zip file transfer requesting a 256k window. I realize my older server hardware influences this but I'd like some feedback on real world home network speeds.
The desktop is an AMD 64 x2 4200 with 1 GB ram.
Mark Andereck
El Cheapo ASRock motherboard with onboard Video
AMD 146 processesor
1 gig of Kingston DDR
WD 320 Harddrive x 2
elcheapo case and Powersupply.
now I just need to purchase a Battery Backup
P4 2.67GHz
512 MB
on board Gigabit Ethernet
6 hard drives (4 PATA & 2 SATA - all supported from the motherboard with very nice drive mounting system that allows three of the drives to mount vertically for better heat disapation)
2 x 250 GB Maxtor PATA
1 x 200 GB Hitachi PATA
2 x 160 GB Seagate SATA
1 x 120 GB Seagate PATA
everything disabled in BIOS that isn't needed e.g. PS/2 ports, serial, parallel.
Three fans (power supply, CPU and case) that are all thermostatically controlled.
I also have a HP ML310 G1 system that will work just as well, or better, but I didn't get it until after I had installed WHS on the HP D530 CMT and I didn't want to start from scratch.
- Mine's a dual-P3 700MHz, on a Gigabyte GA-6BXD (440BX chipset) motherboard.
512Mb RAM
DVD rom
300Gb primary HDD (Seagate Barracuda)
60Gb HDD (Seagate Barracuda)
40Gb HDD (Seagate Barracuda)
20Gb HDD (old Western Digital)
...all four IDE drives running on a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 controller.
USB 2.0 PCI card for external HDDs: 160Gb SATA drive in external enclosure and a 20Gb 2.5" IDE drive, in another enclosure. Clone Blackbox PC Case 430 Watt Power Supply
Asus A7V333 motherboard (Has 4-IDE Ports) with AMD Athlon 2200 XP
(1) CD/DVD-DL Burner/Reader
(1) GIG PC2700 Memory (2x512)
(1) 300 Gig PATA Hard Drive
(1) 200 Gig PATA Hard Drive
(1) 160 Gig PATA Hard Drive
Works Like a Champ So Far....Thank You,
James D. McDaniel - Austin
Resuscitated Compaq Deskpro EXm - 866 MHz PIII, 2 x 256 MB RAM, Sil3112a PCI adapter with 1 x 250 GB SATA drive & Realtek RTL-8169 GBe.
Probable upgrades - 1GHz PIII (for no other reason that that's the recommended minimum processor - it seems to work fine with the 866), and a second 250 GB SATA drive for redundancy.
My old Poweredge 1600sc
:dual 2.4GHz P4 Xeons
half GB ram
4 36GB 10k rpm Cheetah scsi drivesOK, quick trip to the computer fair and I ended up with:
Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2 (NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 chipset)
AMD x2 3800
1 Gb DDR2 dual channel RAM
500W EzCool PSUBoard features:
On-board VGA
Gb LAN
Support for 4 * SATA II
1 * PATA/133I have a new 250Gb and recycled 120 Gb PATA/133 drives already so will start with those, and see how WHS fares.
(It has lots of other goodies, incl 8 channel and HD audio, PCI Express, obligatory RAID, FireWire etc so should make a fair desktop machine post-beta)
Currently...
- -P4 3.2 GHz
- -1.5G RAM
- -300 SATA HDD
Pentium 4 1.7Ghz
256Mb memory (note, I broke the 512Mb minimum)
80 Gb primary HD
400 Gb secondary SATA
- Intel 1.6A Northy
Gigabyte GA-8IEX 845
2x256MB Corsair XMS DDR 400
1x40GB Maxtor D740X
2x500GB Samsung HD501LJ
Promise SATA300 TX4
Saphire 9800 Pro
NEC ND3550A
One of the Sammy's are going back to Newegg as we speak
AMD Sempron 64 2800+ (Socket 754)
ECS K8M800-M2 (v3.0) mATX (VSL+R)
512 Mb DDR-400 Kingston
160 Gb Seagate SATA II
Pioneer DVD-R DL
Slim mATX case w/ 150W PSU
Connected PCs
Dell Latitude D400 (Pentium M 1.4GHz, 1Gb, 40Gb, 2200BG mPCI) - April 2006
Dell Inspiron 8500 (P4M 2.6GHz, 1Gb, 40Gb, 1350BG mPCI) - August 2003
HP Pavilion N5240 (Celeron 800MHz, 384Mb, 10Gb, Belkin Wireless-G) - March 2001
AMD 3200 , 2.2 Ghz (Barton core)
(512 + 256 DDR400) * 2 = 1.5 Gbt (Dual Channel)
Samsung 250 Gbt 16 Mbt SATA (Boot, system)
Maxtor 200 Gbt 8Mbt PATA
Maxtor 300 Gbt 16 Mbt PATA
AMD XP 1700+
ASUS A7N8X MB w/ nforce2 chipsets
512 DDR400
Seagate 120GB Hard Dirve
Nvidia GF4 4200 video
Generic Floppy
Memorex 52x DVD
Will be adding 2 500GB SATA drives soon.
Scott.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ EE
Asus M2NPV-VM (Nvidia 6150 integrated)
2*512 Mo corsair value
2*400Go
My server build (at the moment) will be:
AMD Sempron 2600+ Socket 754 CPU
Asrock MATX Mobo
Antec Aria MATX Cube Case (Brand new, bought specifically for this build)
1gb RAM
1x 80gb SATA HDD
1x 500gb PATA HDD
1x 500gb SATA HDD
Hopefully will run OK............. not sure if the CPU is up to streaming video OK (see my thread I started), but should run all other WHS functions OK!
- Yea, the FA311 is running fine, I simply used the win2k3 drivers for it (WHS is built on 2003 rather than Vista)
My server:
Intel Celeron D 346 3.04ghz
1GB Kingston ValuRAM
1 Seagate 300gb HDD
Nvidia GeForce 6600 256mb
It plays HL2 at full speed
(you think your servers ar so special)
Mine is a true headless server
- Dell PowerVault 715N
- Pentium III 1GHz
- 1 GB PC133 SDRAM (2x Kingston KVR133X64C3/512)
- 4 60GB Maxtor Drives (will be replaced if I get the RTM bits. If I was replacing them today I'd start with 2 Seagate ST3500630A drives)
I actually ran the install on an AOpen AX34 II and then moved HD 0 because the PowerVault lacks the nessasary I/O to run the install.
Pentium 4 - 2.0 GHZ/512/400/1.5V SL5YR MALAY
SiS 650
2 x 1 GB PC2700 333MHz DDR
2 x 80 GB 7,200 RPM 8 MB cache
Sony DRU-820A DVD-RW
Nvidia GeForce 6200 256 MB
3Com 3C905C-TX
Creative Sound Blaster 16 PCI
I have the WHS running on this right now:
Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi
1GB Ram
8 x 250GB Hitachi 7200rpm harddrives in 2 external firewire cabinets (4x250GB in each)
Netgear Rangemax wireless network (USB Stick)
I'm going to install it on my server later and will have around 4TB total storage on that one. 1TB in raid 5 and 2,5TB external on USB and firewire and the rest internal.
Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz
2 x 256MB DDR-266
80GB Hitachi HDD
MSI MB with 845G chipset
Lite On 18x DVD+/-R
Sparkle 300W ATX PS with 120mm Fan (Very Quiet!!)
The stock cooler on the CPU is louder than I would like. I will be adding two additional 40GB drives when I upgrade my main system to Vista.Dell Poweredge 2650 2x2.4 HT Xeon
4gb
PERC 3/DC
5x146 gb 15,000 cheetahs
Intel Gig Nic
Purs like a kitten, and quite fast.
Also...
Runs just great as a VM on Virtual Server.
It's a totally cool product!!! Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Asus P4C800
Intel P4 3.0 G
2gig Ram
Ati9250
Promis FastTrack S150 SX4 RAID5 with 4x 250G
Onboard Intel 82801ER Sata RAID0 with 2x 320G
Bootdisk 160G Pata
DVD-Rom
1Gigabit LAN connected to Netgear FVS124g
- Frustratingly, the RAM was bad so I ordered 2GB from Crucial and that is, of course, fine. Installed in one of my old (dead) tower boxes, now hidden away under the desk and purring like a fly (can't hear a thing).
Crash2975 wrote: OK, quick trip to the computer fair and I ended up with:
Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2 (NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 chipset)
AMD x2 3800
1 Gb DDR2 dual channel RAM
500W EzCool PSUBoard features:
On-board VGA
Gb LAN
Support for 4 * SATA II
1 * PATA/133I have a new 250Gb and recycled 120 Gb PATA/133 drives already so will start with those, and see how WHS fares.
(It has lots of other goodies, incl 8 channel and HD audio, PCI Express, obligatory RAID, FireWire etc so should make a fair desktop machine post-beta)
As it only has one IDE channel, once I'd installed WHS I had to switch to the second HDD. I'll get some 500GB SATA IIs later, so that'll give me a couple of Tb to play with!
I have the following and it seems to be working pretty well:
ASUS N4L-VM DH (Socket 479, micro ATX)
Core2Duo T5500
One gig Kingston ram
2 Seagate 7200.10 500GB
Antec NSK1300 Case
Everything is humming along nicely for the past couple of weeks. I have loaded up sql server on it as well. The temps run a bit hot as the CPU idles at about 46 degrees celcius and the motherboard has hit about 60 degrees.
JP
edit: Updated MacBook Pro description
Mine is an eclectic mix:
Server:
ECS P4M890T-M2 motherboard (Via P4M890 chipset, onboard NIC)
Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 Processor overclocked to 4.0 GHz (dual-core Pentium-4-based with HyperThreading, 1066 MHz front side bus)
512 MB of random no-name PC2-3200 memory (two 256 MB DIMMs that came with a desktop computer that was promptly upgraded.)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40 GB 3.5" ATA hard drive
Seagate Momentus 5400.2 60 GB 2.5" Serial ATA hard drive (pulled from an upgraded laptop)
EVGA GeForce 7300GT 256 MB video card (bought when this machine was my Vista testbed to replace the unsupported onboard graphics, not supported in Home Server, but for this, I don't really care.)
I may plug in some external hard drives, but right now, the PCs I'm using to test don't have a lot of data on them, so the 90 GB 'data' space is plenty.
The PCs I connect with:
HP Pavilion A1100y (Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB internal HD, Windows Vista Home Premium) Son's primary PC
MacBook Pro (Core Duo 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB of 100 GB dedicated to Windows, Windows Vista Ultimate) My primary computer. I have this listed as both the "Boot Camp" install of Vista, as well as my "Parallels" Mac OS X virtualization software instance of Vista. (Which is actually annoying, because now I have *TWO* 'computers' to back up for one physical machine, as far as WHS is concerned.)
Compaq Presario V2000 (Pentium M 2.26 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB internal HD, Windows Vista Ultimate RC1, to be restored to factory, then upgraded to Vista Business soon) My business laptop, bought before the Intel Macs came out.
Compaq Presario V2000 (Celeron M 1.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB internal HD, Windows XP Home, to be upgraded to Vista Business soon) My spare business laptop, currently in use by one of my employees.
- Shuttle SD32G2 barebones
Onboard graphics, sound and gigabit ethernet
Intel Celeron D 3.2 (with a modest OC bump up to 3.85)
Seagate 320gb SATA drive
NEC CD/DVD-R
1 x 1gb DDR2 pqi DRAM
$490 I decided to try Robert McLaws' homemade suggestion.
- AOpen XCube barebone computer
- AMD Athalon 3400 processor
which, after promocodes and such, cost me $203 net.
- 512 of memory surplused from a desktop a year ago
- 300 GB Seagate ATA drive that I bought on sale few months ago an never got around to installing
- surplus DVD ROM drive
Then I added a 400GB NetDisk to the storage pool (I bought it for backup last year but was never really satisfied with the arrangement).
Bottom line: for an additional investment of $203, I got a much better backup solution for my 4 computers than anything I've had before. Yes, I could have spent an additional $50 for a dual-core processor but quite frankly, I don't believe it would have made any
AMD Athlon XP 2500
1.5GB DDR400
2xWD1200JD (IDE)
1xWD2000JS, 1xWD2500JS (SATA)
Abit NF-S2 Mobo
MSI GeForce 6600GT AGP w/new fan
This machine was, at one point, my gaming rig. I built it back in Nov.2005, and downgraded it to a file server in Feb. 2006.
It has been running Kubuntu Linux for over 6 months without any downtime. I'm a head computer tech, so I'm really just trying this out to see if this would be a valuable thing for very small businesses and home users.
- Athlon XP 2200+
1GB Mushkin PC3200
120GB & 160GB 7200.8 Seagates
Was a spare rig at home, glad it now has a reason to be there. - 566Mhz Celeron
Abit BM6 motherboard
640MB PC133 RAM
3com ethernet card
Promise Ultra TX100 PCI card
160GB WD drive (Boot)
120GB Maxtor drive
500GB Seagate drive - 566Mhz Celeron
640MB RAM
120/160/500GB drives
Yeah, I'm slumming it
Works fine though. Pentium 4 3.2
Asus P5DGC MOBO
(I had a very dificult time installong this OS on this MOBO, I chose this MOBO because of the 3 IDE and 4 SATA connectors on it, allowing a posibility of 9 HD's and a DVD rom.)
PCI Vid
1 GB Ram
80GB HD
200GB HD
I'm sort of slumming it also .....
ASUS Terminator 1 barebone (C3V mb with VIA C3 800Mhz CPU soldered to the board)
Onboard graphics, sound and ethernet1 x 512 Mb Corsair Value PC2100
internal Seagate 320gb PATA driveinternal Seagate 160gb SATA drive
No floppy
Toshiba DVD driveall for < $250
WHS installed on the first attempt. installed WHS on the IDE drive. all drivers (including SATA) were installed by WHS OS with the exception of the onboard audio driver. initial client computer running WinXP Pro took an hour to backup (~ 12 Gb of files/data). subsequent backups take 2-3 minutes. backup of laptop running WinXP Pro took 12 minutes over ethernet (~ 4Gb of files/data). subsequent backups take about 2 minutes.
Using following hardware:
- AMD 3200+ (Venice)
- 1GB DDR400
- 2x 500GB Samsung SATA
- Onboard Graphics
- works fine in a Shuttle barebone SN21G5
Server
ASUS with just about everthing on board
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
512 Memory to be upgraded to 2 x 1GB
1 WD 80GB
2 WD 40GB
- My sig contains the latest effort. I have added another My Book 500 gig drive to the mix.
Actually I've had three boxes running WHS.
Box 1
Proc: P3 1Ghz
MoBo: Intel D815EEA2
RAM: 512Mbs PC-133
Video: ATI Radeon 7200
HD: 40 Gb IDE Seagate
DVD-ROM: 16x Compaq
LAN: On Board
Installed in a little over 2 hours and it ran good.
Box 2
Proc: Athlon 1.2Ghz
MoBo: Iwill KK266-R
RAM: 640Mbs PC-100
Video: ATI Radeon 7200
HD: 40 Gb IDE Seagate
DVD-ROM: 16x Compaq
LAN: Linksys LNE100TX v4
Install time was same as above. System was noticeably more responsive.
Later installed 2 80Gb HDs on a Promise Ultra 100 TX2
Box 3
Proc: Pentium D 925
MoBo: Asus P5NE-SLI
RAM: 2Gbs DDR2 800
Video: nVidia GF 7100GS
HD: 40 Gb IDE Seagate
DVD-ROM: 16x Compaqn
LAN: On Board
Install time was less than an hour. System rocks.
Installed Promise Ultra 100 TX2 then added 2 80Gb HDs
After the success with the first two boxes I felt justified to buy for new hardware for Box 3.
WHS runs great. I'll spend $ on this instead of Vista!
Custom built Celeron 2.4GHz on an MSI board
1.5GB DDR
80+160GB internal PATA
120GB USB2
200GB internal PATA still to add...
Running fine
Current system is:
AMD Athlon XP1400+
1GB ram (Kingston value I think)
2 x 200GB Seagate & 160GB Maxtor PATA drives
Belkin NIC Card
NVidia Geforce 2MX400 (who needs graphics in a headless server)
Runs ok, seems a little sluggish when going through the music folders on server (60GB approx), not been able to isolate this issue yet.
Once I've downloaded the CTP looking to upgrade the server box to:
AMD Athlon 64X2 3800
2GB Crucial Ram (3200C2PT)
Asustek MB, Onboard LAN
250GB Seagate SATA II & 2 x 200GB Seagate PATA (Temporary)
and same Graphics card
Hopefully this should run a little quicker
- 2x Intel Pentium II CPU's, 400mhz each
256mb PC133 RAM
Brialliant IV server board
4gb Quantum Bigfoot
2gb Quantum Bigfoot
ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x
Creative 16bit soundcard My Current System is:
ASUS P4P800-SE
P4 Slot 478 3.2 1MB CACHE 800mhz FSB
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200
1- 200GB WD SATA main HD
1-120GB WD IDE HD
1- 80GB WD IDE HD
LINKSYS 10/100 LAN
NVidia Geforce 2 MX400 32mb PCI
- It's my future Car PC.
Via C3 ITX board
PW80 12 volt power supply
512 RAM
Seagate 120g hd
All mounted in an 8"x10" "cash box" about 2" high. Super quiet, there is a 40mm fan running at half speed to move air through it.