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- 種類を変更済みJonas Svensson -HSBS-MSFT, 所有者2008年10月25日 23:48
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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. My Server:
Athlon XP 1800+
Mobo all in one, chipset SIS, mini atx
1 gb pc 3200 (16 mb for video)
6 USB ports (for external hds)
dvd rom
3 WD HD (200, 160, 160 GB)
Intel P4 1.8GHz
1GB RAM
1 40GB Western Digital
1 30GB Quantum
Needless to say it would need a substantial drive upgrade to come into practical use. There are three clients connected with a collected diskspace well above 1TB - it'd need one hefty compression to back those up onto the home server
.- CeleronM 380 (D) 1.6 GHz
1 GB (2 x 512) PC2-4200
200 GB SATA 7200 RPM
DVD-/+R DL
Integrated 10/100 Base-T networking interface
External 250GB 7200 RPM hard drive Yes I like that my former doorstop also
Celeron 1.3Ghz
768 meg ram
120G Maxtor IDE
NEC 2500-a dvd writer
250 G Western Digital IDE
120 G maxtor IDE
crappy network card
Diamond 9200 tv tuner card LOL
- Shuttle FN85 Mainboard with Nvdia Nforce 3
AMD Sempron 3000+ @ 1,8Ghz
512 Mb RAM PC3200
40Gb/200Gb IDE HDD
1x200Gb USB 2.0 Drive Test install: 10 hours and so far no problems
Board: ECS K7S5A
Processor AMD Athlon ~995 Mhz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc.
Ram: 768Mb pc133
Harddrive: some old 80Gb ATA drive
Network: 100Mbit
The nearest future (when i find the time to assemble it)
Board: Asus something lying in the back
Processor: P4 1600mhz
Ram: 1Gb pc133
Harddrive: some old 120Gb + 200Gb ATA or maybe new 2x300gb SATA
Network: 100Mbit
Printer: HP K550 PRO- Dell outlet special
Dimension 3000
P4 2.8HT
512MB pc3200 (2x256)
80GB system
2x 200GB ata100 drives I got my invite Friday morning, went to Fry's to grab some parts Saturday afternoon, started the hardware build about 9:00am Sunday morning, the WHS install about 1:00pm and here I am about 5:00pm running my first backup. I didn't see anyone else in this thread with a similar setup so I thought I would post mine in case someone has questions. Personally, I spent probably an hour trying to figure out if my built-in NIC would be compatible before just going with the "what's the worst thing that could happen? Reinstall?" thought. However, everything went flawless.
ECS P4M800-M2 (v2.0) motherboard (http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=674&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Feature&MenuID=44&LanID=9)
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8ghz
2x512mb DDR2 400mhz
1x500gb Seagate SATA
1xDVD-RW
Thermaltake 450w PSU
All tucked inside a Cooler Master Centurion 532 case (http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/Products.aspx?pid=1148) with space for 10 drives.
Why this config? Here's my thought process (or lack thereof).
The processor was a concious decision based on electrical efficiency. If WHS will use the Speed-step capabilities, this will probably draw much less than the 65 watt TDP of the E4300 most of the time. If necessary, I can force it down to 1.2ghz in the BIOS for a 33% (22w) power savings. This efficiency alone over it's useful life should pay for the cost of the processor and mobo combo (which was on sale for $130) over using old hardware. Something to consider if you are redeploying systems with 200+ watt TDP and no Speedstep.
This particular ECS motherboard allows me to use up to 4 existing PATA devices as well as DDR RAM if I had it laying around. It only has two SATA connectors so I'll probably add an extra SATA controller at some point.
The 500gb was a plan B decision when the 160GB on sale for $40 were out of stock. At $120 for the 500gb though, the price seemed right ($.24/gb). I'll add a second drive here shortly to take advantage of the file duplication.
The RAM, PSU, DVD and case were spare. I may replace the RAM with 2GB of 533mhz later if add-ons (WSS?) dictate. The DVD seems spare now that the install is complete but I will probably leave it for the next install. The case seems perfect.
Hope this helps someone!
- My server:
AMD X2 3400+ (939)
Gigabyte K8N SLI
2GB PC3200
2 Seagate Sata 300- 500GB HDD, may add another 500GB
EVGA 6800GS
DVD-RW - Dell Optiplex GX270
- Intel Pentium 4 at 3.00 GHz
- 1 GB PC3200 RAM
- 1 INT Maxtor 80GB HDD; 1 EXT USB WD 500GB HDD; 1 EXT Seagate IEEE1394 500GB HDD; 1 EXT Maxtor IEEE1394 80GB HDD
Heracles (WHS Fileserver)
- Pentium D 930 (Dual Core 3GHz)
- ASUS P5WD2-E Premium (Intel i975X Chipset)
- PowerColor ATI X300 256MB
- 1GB Corsair PC6400 DDR2 800MHz
- 8x Samsung 400GB SATA300 Drives
- HighPoint RocketRaid 2300 PCI-e 4-port SATA RAID controller
- 2x SNT3141 4-drive SATA enclosures
- 1x SNT2131 3-drive SATA enclosure (disconnected/not active)
- Coolermaster CMStacker Enclosure & Antec 550W SmartPower 2.0 PSU
The drive enclosures are pretty cool. I have the two 4-drive ones hooked up, with the 3-drive one used as a spare drive holder. I'll eventually look at replacing the motherboard and CPU with something a little more power-drain friendly down the track, too.
I have pretty pictures of the setup here.My Server
Sempron 2800+ S754
Foxconn 760GXK8MC-RS Motherboard
Crucial 512 MB PC21000
Coolermaster Centurion Case
Seagate 160GB IDE HD
350W PS
Benq DVD-ROM Drive
A Dell Optiplex GX240
1.80 Ghz Pentuim 4
512Mb Ram
200Gb Western Digital PATA Hard Drive
A small and very quiet system.
Via C7 CPU at 1 GHz
1GB Kingston PC2 4200 RAM
1x IDE 120GB PATA HDD
2x Seagate 400GB SATA HDD
MSI Axis 700 Lite Case
200W PS
- I will probably be loading it onto my SuperMicro (not in front so cant remember model #) with dual P3 866
2gb of PC133 ECC
5x 160gb Seagate 7200.9 PATA
1x 100gb WD PATA
1x Promise add on IDE 2port card
1x Maxtor add on IDE 2 port card(its not quite a Promise card for some reason, only the maxtor drivers will work with it.)
USB DVD drive
Onboard NIC, and video.
PC&C 510 Enclosure Parts
Case: Chenbro RM215 2U Rackmount Case $390.00
Power Supply: Emacs 2U / 3U 700 watt PS $205.00
Opical Drive and Floppy: Slim CDRW/DVD Slim Floppy Drive $97.00
UPS: Belkin F6C1000-TW-RK 1000VA 615 watts UPS $124.99
Switch: Netgear GS116 Gigabit 16 Port Switch w/ Jumbo Frames $169.99
Rack: Wallmount 9U Rack $265.00
Internal Parts
Proc: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ $73.99
Mobo: MSI K9N6PGM-F Socket AM2 Micro ATX Motherboard $66.99
Ram: Kingston (2 x 1GB) ECC Unbuffered DDR2 667 Server Memory $127.99
Raid Controller: PROMISE SuperTrak EX8350 PCI-X SATA II x8 $412.99
Raid Battery Backup: Promise Technology Battery Backup Module for SuperTrak EX8350 $119.99
OS HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 80GB SATA II Hard Drive $43.99
Raid HDD: Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 500GB 16MB Cashe SATA II Hard Drive X8 $1,119.92
Total Cost w/ Shipping: $3350.60
2.4 ghz P4
1.5 gig RAM
gigabyte MB model I don't remember
1x320gig PATA
1x500gig PATA
though I'm struggling getting USB2 to work for my iTunes install.
Intel Celeron M 1.4 GHz processor
512 MB RAM PC 3200 DDR2 SDRAM
160 GB SATA hard drive
100 GB external USB 2.0
CDRW/DVD rom
Integrated video
Integrated 10/100 Base-T networking interface
108 watt power supply
HP Slimline Case
Dell Poweredge 830
3.0 Duo
2gb mem
2x500gb Sata
2x150gb Sata
Cerc Sata 6 channel (not used)
Dvd
DvdR/RW
- You are going to wish you didn't put that 80GB drive as the OS drive. That is only going to leave you with 60GB of swap space to allow the disk migration service to do it's thing.
intel P4 3400 mhz
Ram 2gb
4 Seagate 500GB Sata drives
- I just put all the spare hardware I had together and got this:
- Asus A7V
- AMD Athlon 900 mhz
- 512 mb sdram
- Bunch of disks: 2 maxtors and a western digital
- 3com NIC
- Geforce 2
Also a SATA and ATA pci expansion card and a fiber optic nic from HP but ain't using these right now. Intel D945GTP
Penitum D 930 3.0GHz
2GB DDR2
Single 160GB SATA drive
Onboard gigabit network card
All enclosed within a Sonata II case, it's a headless machine in that I only connect keyboard, mouse and monitor as needed when I cannot operator remotely....
Currently the gigabit card is actually operating at gigabit speeds, I was able to transfer a 4GB file within about a couple of minutes at 50MB/s
It's a little bit tricky for me primarily because of the beta nature of this OS, because I want to store so many things on the server, but with all the upgrades and drive erasures I can't actually use the server beyond a backup box...
My intention is to add probably three 500GB HDDs the next time I see em' for 100 a pop... This is so that I can use the server a means of archiving things.... Stuff I'm more likely to watch will be housed within my HTPC, which has 1TB of drive space, while things I might want to watch, or use will be stored server side.... Of course, I may pull the 160GB out and order four 500GB drives, and use the 160 in my gaming rig to give me a nice 320 JBOD array....
If only WHS supported 64-bit Vista backups
- Well, in fairness the spec does state 80GB as the requirement, but I'm seriously thinking of upping my 250 to a 500GB when I install RC1....
IBM Clone
To start with I have a Tall 5 bay tower with 450 power supply
Asus K8vseDX MB
AMD 64 2.20 gigahertz
2 - IBM IDE HD 120 gig
2 - Seagate SATA HD 320 gig
Plextor CD-R
Sony DVD RW
2 gig memory
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
3 case fans
And least I forget, a floppy
Most of all I have room to add 4 HD's
Most of these items came from junked computers
The best thing about my WHS is that is so quite.
- Dell Optiplex GX260 (small desktop case)
P4 2.4 Ghz
80 GB hd
1 GB ram
Gigabit ethernet
Promise SATA300 TX4302 adapter
2 x 750 GB Seagate FreeAgent Pro esata drives
Netgear Gigabit switch
Netgear 802.11g Wireless router
TrippLite UPS I am running my Home Server on the following:
Mobo:
Albatron KX400 - 8XV
CPU:
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2.0 Ghz,
RAM:
512 MB DDR StarRAM
Video:
nVidia GeForce 2 MX 400
Hard Drives:
1x Samsung 80 Gig 7200 RPM IDE
1x Seagate 80 Gig Barracuda 7200 RPM IDE
Optical Drive:
NEC DVD Burner
Case:
All thrown into a crappy case I tripped over at the tip!
I got the all the hardware for free because a client didn't pay for a DVD burner & repair job.
In the next couple of months I plan on constricting a system that will basically consist of products that will allow for
low power consumption (for prolonged periods of a UPS incase of extended blackouts), low noise,
sufficiant cooling abillities, maximum data throughput (network) & a case small enough to go unnoticed,
but still allow room for storage expansion.
From what I've been reading on these forums, I have a fair idea of what hardware I'm leaning towards.
I'll let you know when I order the parts what I have decided on.
If anyone is in Melbourne, Australia, and would like to dabble in case construction, PM me as I have limited
tools but alot of ideas.
Thorn
- AMD socket 754 3200+ (soon to be replaced with 939 4200 dual core)
MSI 754 board (soon to be replaced with foxcon 939)
2.5GB RAM (upgrade to 3GB planned)
dvd rom for installation
onboard gigabit nic
hiper modular 580 type r PSU
3x500GB SATA
2x750GB SATA
1x 300GB SATA
1x 400 IDE
1x 320 IDE
external 250GB for my backups from WHS Currently (Running CTP)
- MB
- Asus Micro ATX A8N-VM CSM (Socket 939 - Geforce 6150 / nForce 430)
- Integrated audio
- Integrated video
- Integrated gigabit lan (Drivers not included in WHS installation)
- Asus Micro ATX A8N-VM CSM (Socket 939 - Geforce 6150 / nForce 430)
- CPU
- Athlon X2 3800+ (Toledo)
- Arctic Alpine 64 cooler (near silent)
- Athlon X2 3800+ (Toledo)
- RAM
- 1GB DDR
- HD's
- 2x Western Digital 120GB 7200 RPM SATA I
- 2x Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATA II
What I just ordered (parts coming Tuesday - Hopefully RC1 will come soon as well)
- MB ($127 @ Newegg)
- Gigabyte Micro ATX GA-965QM-DS2 (LGA 775 - Intel 965Q)
- New durable series with all solid capacitors
- Integrated audio
- Integrated video (Intel GMA 3000)
- Integrated gigabit lan (Intel PCIe solution - Drivers Included in WHS installation)
- Gigabyte Micro ATX GA-965QM-DS2 (LGA 775 - Intel 965Q)
- CPU ($84 @ Newegg)
- Pentium Dual Core E2140 (Allendale w/ Core microarchitecture 1.6GHz / 800FSB)
- RAM ($37@ Newegg)
- 1GB DDR2 - Corsair valueselect dual channel kit
- HD's
- Same as above
AMD based stuff will be going on eBay as soon as RC1 is out. I did not like having to install the Nvidia chipset / lan drivers. It just did not seem like they were meant for Windows 2003 server. I had a couple non-reproducable file corruptions occur (reported on connect), which I attribute to flaky storage drivers and / or the cool n' quiet drivers from AMD. I like the fact that the Intel based machine will have either native support or readily available Windows 2003 drivers available from Intel. Also, I am hoping the new Intel based system with the low power Allendale CPU and durable series Gigayte board will consume less power and create less heat than the previous AMD system (which did quite well).
Hopefully Im not wasting too much money...
- MB
- See my sig
We are starting with a whitebox desktop we had around. Wow, everything we had has just worked -- purchased a reasonably priced SATA card and a new 500GB drive we added a couple of weeks after we did our original install:
Intel P4 2.6GHz
512MB ram
the 160GB ide hard drive that was in it,
one WD 500GB SATA hard drive
I am currently running:
AMD Athlon 1400 (T-Bird) (1.4Ghz)
1GB DDR
2 x WD SE16 400GB SATA Drives
Gigabit NIC
What I will have for RC1:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600
2GB DDR2-800
3 x WD SE16 400GB SATA Drives
Gigabit NIC
5 x 3 - 5.25" Hot-swap backplane
SATA II PCI controller card (for a total of 8 SATA II connections)
I think for now I am going to put the new hardware in my old Mid Tower case with an Antec 350W PSU. Eventually, I want to get a rackmount case and a new PSU. I will probably throw a couple more fans in the case for now to make sure it doesn't overheat.
- Corsair Value S. PC5300 DDR2 1024MB Kit w/two 512MB
ABIT LG-95Z, I945GZ, Socket-775, m-ATX, SATAII, DDR2, VGA only
Intel Pentium D 820 2.8GHz Socket LGA775
350 Watt PSU, Thermaltake Armour chassis
5 X 500GB SATA 2 WD HDD
1 X 160GB PATA Samsung HDD
SATA PCI card
Gigabit ethernet PCI card
I've got another Terra of hard drives awaiting the RC download.
This is a very stable box which runs a distributed computing program 27/4 and I have no problems with temperatures, throughput, etc. The only limitation is the shortage of PCI slots ( Only two) and SATA ports ( Only four). I experience and tested WHS on 4 different configuration :
1st desktop:
- Motherboard DFI NB80EA, Intel E7205 chipset.
- Intel Celeron @ 2000 MHz, socket 478. Later Intel Pentium 4 Northwood @ 2800 MHz, socket 478
- Physical Memory: 1024 MB (2 x 512 DDR-SDRAM).
- Maxtor 160 GB (IDE 133). - Maxtor 80 GB x 2(IDE 133).
- 1x WD 250 GB External HDD 3.5 on USB 2.0.
- Video Card: NVIDIA Corp GeForce4 MX 4000.
- DVD-Rom Drive: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-303 SCSI Device.Later PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108 IDE.
- Onboard Network Card: Realtek Semiconductor RT8139 Fast Ethernet Adapter.
First time it is not possible to make the NIC working, every time bad driver, from WHS DVD or from other source… After many different way and try, I give up!(I will know later that my PIONEER DVD-ROM make the worst work)
Second time on one later test WHS is working well a couple of day, but it's my working desktop now, I make it back to my working station using the WHS 2nd desktop.......
2nd desktop:
- Motherboard ASUS P5PL2E, Intel 945 chipset.
- Intel Pentium 915 @ 2.8 GHz, socket LGA775.
- Physical Memory: 2048 MB (2 x 1024 DDR2-533MHz).
- 3x Seagate 250 GB SATA.
- Video Card: ATI Radeon X200 Fan less.
- DVD-Burner Drive: PHILIPS DVDRW824P PATA Device.
- Onboard Network Card: Realtek Semiconductor RTL8111B Giga Ethernet Adapter.
Working well and fast, full automated installation!!! Now till in use!!!
Just noisy and heating...... Wrong Box I think!!!!!
Using backup from this WHS server to make the configuration rollback after test on the other PC configuration
(Desktop 1 &3 and laptop VIA)...
3rd desktop:
- Motherboard Acer EM61SM/EM61PM
- AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
- Chipset : Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration- NorthBridge : AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron Bridge
- SouthBridge : Nvidia Corp- Physical Memory: 1024 MB (2 x 512 DDR-SDRAM PC1600).
- IDE / SATA Controler : Nvidia Corp Nvidia Corp
- 1x Seagate ST3250820AS 250 GB SATA.
- 1x Seagate 250 GB External HDD 3.5 on USB 2.0.
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT.
- DVD-Burner Drive: HL-DT-STDVD+-RW GSA-H21N.
- Onboard Network Card: Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd) Marvell Semiconductor.
WHS working well !: But need give the hardware back to my son!!!
One LAPTOP (yes!!) (Just to try!!
)-
- ECS G320,
- Motherboard: ECS??
- Chipset: VIA CLE266+8235.
- Processor: VIA C3 processor (Nehemiah) @ 1.2GHz.
- Physical Memory: 1x 1024 MB DDR-SDRAM 333.
- Video Card: Embedded Castle Rock GFX in CLE 266.
- Hard Disc: SAMSUNG (80 GB) PATA.
- 2x 250 GB External HDD 3.5 on USB 2.0. (one Seagate, one WD)
- CD DVD-Burner Drive.
- NIC: VIA Fast Ethernet Adapter.
WHS working well, slower ( no wonder), But need give the PC back to my spouse!!!
Test it because the undeground mining is making one VIA C7 Box later, for smart cooling and quite box!!!!!!! Hope !! Will be the with the next step release I think!!!!!!
Aopen case QF50 (very silent for such an ordinary case)
Mobo Asus M2N-MX:
- (Gb Lan),
- 8 Mb shared video ;-( a PCI card didn't turn off the shared video and to buy a PCIe card for the server is a step to far, so shared video is set to a minium.
- lot more connections and with a new PCIe card this will be a fine desktop after WHS experiment.
Sempron AM2 3400+
2x512Mb DDR2 PC5300 (667MHz)
2x160 Gb WD1600JB SATA II
Connected computers:
Asus A8N-SLI, AOpen 6600DV 256Mb Video, 1Gb DDR PC400, AMD Athlon 4000+ 939 socket, 200 Gb (2005)
Compaq Evo 410c pentium III laptop, 512Mb SDRAM, 20 Gb (2001)
Dell e520, Intel Duo core 6300, 2Gb DDR2 PC 533MHz, 160Gb (2006)
Damn, I must be one of the lame ones here...
Bare minimum with more on the way...
P4 1.6G
1Gig PC2700
80G Seagate 7200
80G WD 7200
Both IDE, nothin special bout this one, just needs a lil more...
1.2Ghz Celeron
512 PC-133
1 - 60 gb Maxtor
1 - 20 gb WD
1 - 30 gb Maxtor
1 - 40 gb WD
Dell XPS 600
3.46 EE (I know....overkill)
2 GB RAM
1 each maxtor 250 GB HD
2 each WD 250 GB HD
Intel 820 dual-core
512 memory
Asrock 775 board
320gig sata
dvd-rw
Tried a 2.8 celeron but large file transfers would take forever to process.
- Cool, I have the guts to my old PC that are basically identical to your specs. I'll try it out on that before dual booting my current Opty rig.
I Have a few rigs this is going to be my server. I just downloaded the RC tonight. I am running Win Server 2003 EE on it now but am going to wipe it for WHS
My WHS Server
· CPU / AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2.0GHz Socket 939
· MOBO / DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
· RAM / 2 Gigs Corsair TwinX1024 PC4000-Pro (DDR500)
· Video / ? Cheep PCI card I had laying around 32MB Ram
· HDD / Maxtor 200 SATA
· PSU / Thermaltake True Power 500
My Main Rig
· CPU / Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775
· ZALMAN CNPS 9700 NT 110mm 2 Ball Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler
· MOBO / ASUS P5NT WS Socket T (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce Dual PCI-E x 16 ATX Server Motherboard
· RAM / CORSAIR Dominator 2GB DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) TWIN2X2048-8500C5D
· Video / EVGA 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SUPERCLOCKED
· HDD /
· Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150
· 3 x Maxtor 250 SATA
· Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3500641AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb
· PSU / APEVIA 600W
· Case / Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BWA Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower
Plus a few more but I am sure you don’t want to be here all night
Update I Just added Verizon's FIOS 20/5 Fiber Baby!!!!
Dual PIII 1Ghz
1Gb ECC-REG
1x 40Gb IDE (PATA)
1x 100Gb IDE (PATA)
1x 50Gb Scsi (160)
Want to go to:
Mini-Itx
2x 320Gb PATA
2x 500Gb SATA
But just searching for parts, budget and compatibility
WHS Server:
Home Built Pentium D 930 3.0GHz
3GB Ram
Disks:
1 x 80GB - SATA
1 x 160GB - PATA
3 x 250GB - SATA and PATA
3 x 300GB - SATA and PATA
1 x 320GB - SATA
AMD Athlon 4000+
2x Hitachi 500 GB ATA on ATA RAID 1
2x Hitachi 500 GB SATA on SATA RAID 1
LG CD/DVD-RW
2 GB RAM DDR
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet
Radeon X800
PowerSpec V300
Intel P4 3.0GHz
1MB RAM
WDC WD1600JS-22NCB1 150GB SATA
Samsung HD501J 500GB SATA
Did some upgrades
Pentium M 1.8Ghz
1GB DDR 400
100GB HD
DVD-ROM
2X400 GB SATA
Highpoint RocketRaid 464
raid-5 w/ 3 x 200 GB HD, 2 x 250 GB HD
- My current setup is:
P4 3.0 Northwood
SE7210TP1-E (7210 /6300ESB)
1Gb Kingston DDR400
2 x 250 Gb Seagate Barracuda ES in a CoolerMaster 4 drive cooling unit
Antec 4U rackmount w/ 380W EarthPower PSU
This is going to be replaced as I need it back for another project. The new box will be:
Athlon64 (AM2) 3000 or BE-2350
1Gb DDR2? (whatever's cheap, brand name and available) or 2Gb if I use the BE-2350 so I can run VmWare Server on it as well and save having an extra machine just for that.
something based on NVidia 61xx/NF430 for RAID5
4 x 250 Gb Seagate Barracuda ES in RAID5
a small mid tower large enough to hold my CoolerMaster 4 drive cooling unit
380W EarthPower PSU
The current machine is running headless, as this product is intended to run. The new one will be the same. I'll be installing the RC on the new one in a week or so. - Dell GX260
P4 2.4
512 of PC2100
1 WD 80gb hd, 1 Maxtor 300gb.
It's a system I liberated from work before it hit the e-waste pile. I have to admit it's running beautifully as a server. I'm running WHS inside Virtual Server 2005 R2 RC1 amd64 on Windows Server 2003 R2 amd64
The Host PC has the following:
Athalon 64 X2 4200+
4G PC3200
Seagate 250G 7200.8 SATA boot
2x WD 400G 7200.8 SATA hardware stripped
2x Seagate 500G (7200.16) SATA
nVidia nForce4 Gb mobo network
The Virtual Machine running WHS has:
1G memory
network bound directly to nForce 4 network
system drive: 127G dynamic disk on the stripped host drive
2x data drive: 465 dynamic disk on Seagate 500G drives
Of course, I run the risk with the dynamic disks that I could fill up the host drive and the VM will fail expanding them. There's also a perf hit for the dynamic disks. I'm not worried about filling up the drive or the perf hit. I like having the free space on the host's drives to use for short-term storage.
- Started off looking at WHS out of curiosity on a "frankenserver" - minimal money spent to get a machine that'd barely meet the minimum requirements - mostly salvaged parts from my "box of bits" in the attic:
Duron 900 overclocked to just under 1000,
864Mb Ram,
250Gb Samsung HDD (bought for this project)
ATI Rage 128 (remember those?) graphics card
LG DVD ROM
all built into a tatty ATX case I had in the attic... it's not pretty, but it works...
I didn't mind buying the drive, as I'd find a use for it elsewhere if I didn't continue with the home-server plan...
However I've been impressed with the RC so far, so much so that I'm now putting together a new-build machine to run it on long term with the OEM version once it's release - currently planning a small form factor setup:
Silverstone SG01 (small form factor) case
2x250Gb HDD (including the one currently in use above)
Athlon 64 Processor
1Gb RAM
Should suit my home network nicely, and will fit on a shelf in my home office... - Asus M2A-VM HDMI motherboard
AMD 3800 x2 running mostly at 1.1v and 999MHZ under AMD Cool'N'Quiet
1GB Kingston KVR RAM
2 x 500GB Seagate SATA2
Onboard Video(when needed)
Antec P180 case
Connected to Network via DLINK Gigabit switch
It sits in the cool basement barely making a sound. Rolf,
I am having trouble mixing SCSI & PATA drives. I installed on 2 Fujitsu SCSI drives with no problem.
Now I am trying to reinstall with a PATA in the mix.
No luck! The setup hangs with the restart following formatting & copying files. It stops with "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration..."
I have tried taking the SCSI's out of the boot sequence. I have tried taking the PATA out of the boot sequence.
No luck! This is driving me crazy. I would really appreciate any tips.
Fred Aker
- Specs:
2x Opteron 248 @2.2GHZ each
4GB RAM, 2GB each
80GB 10K SCSI system drive
2x 250GB IDE
1x 300GB SATA
All in one HUGE case.
Runs like a monster. My Server
· CPU / AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (65w) x2 2.0GHz
· MOBO / ASUS M2A-VM
· RAM / 1.5gb Corsair ddr2
· Video / ATI Integrated x1250
· HDDs / 3 Seagate ST3400633as (400g) SATA 3.0
I added a gig of memory today. Fry's rebate special
and it seems to run much better.Tucked away in a big ole' Gateway Aegis case:
Mobo: Intel D865PEMA
CPU: P4 2.6 GHZ HT
RAM: -2- 512MB DDR modules (1GB total)
Video: Some old 32MB card...
HDDs: -1- 320GB Sata150 WesternDigital, -2- 180GB ATA100 WesternDigitals. Combined storage shows as 633.45 GB.
DVD: TDK 440N (DVD-RW)
That's about it! It has been working very well as the server, handling backups and file sharing for 6 different PC's, with another two waiting to be added. I'll likely have to upgrade the HDD's in the future, but otherwise, I don't see any need for further upgrades.
RobIntel Pentium III 1 Ghz
512 MB DIMM RAM
Promise SATA II PCI controler card
2 500 GB SATA II Seagate hard drives
2 200 GB IDE ATA100 Seagate hard drives
- My server:
Case AOpen ES45B-B 350W P4 ATX
Asus M2A-VM Socket AM2
AMD Sempron 3200+
Kingston ValueRAM 1GB (512MB x 2) 667MHz DDR2
1X Seagate Barracuda (ST3250620AS) 250GB SATA
1X Seagate Barracuda (ST3320620A) 320GB IDE
1X Maxtor DiamondMax (6L250R0) 250GB IDE My Server:
P4 2.26
1GB DDR400
Radeon 9200 AGP
250GB IDE
250GB IDE
500GB SATA
160GB SATA
500GB External USB
400GB External USB
Server, DIY system.
Case: 3r r101 Midi (400w PSU, 8 x 3.5" HDD, 2 x 120mm fan)
LianLi 3 x 5.25" to 4 x 3.5" slot converter 1 x 120mm fan
Mobo: Gigabyte 7n400 pro2
CPU: Athlon XP 2100+
RAM: 768mb
VGA: Nvidia Quaddro 64mb AGP
IO: Highpoint Rocketraid 404 in JBOD config
Drive Config:
1 x 500gb IDE
3 x 400gb IDE
5 x 120gb IDE
1 x 122gb IDE
1 x DVD rom IDE
Upgrades coming over next little while
1 x 500-750gb SATA HDD when RTM released.
6 x 500gb IDE HDD over next year or so.
64bit Motherboard and CPU so ready for WHS 2k8 x64
Dell Optiplex GX620
Pentium 4 HT 3.8GHz
2 GB RAM
(2) 160GB SATA internal
(1) 250GB USB external
(1) 120GB USB external
This is my new server.
Intel D201GLY Mini Itx ($ 75, V,L,S integrated into mobo)
Celeron 215 1.33 Ghz (integrated into mobo)
1 Gb Ram DDR2
Promise Ultra 100 Tx2 Ide controller
HD 200+160+80+40
PSU 350 W
This set up is slower than my old server but it is quiet and dont use as much power as my old one.
In a CoolerMaster Stacker 101 resides (atm) these thingies:
Asus P4V800D-X Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 3.20 GHz (replacing the former Celeron 2.2 GHz)
512 Meg RAM
ATI Radeon 9500
Samsung DVD DL Burner
2 IDE/S-ATA controllers of some kind
A bunch of drives; 3 S-ATA and 5 P-ATA ranging from 80 Gig to 400 Gig + a WD MyBook 500 Gb USB External drive, a total of 1.96 TB
Chieftec 350 W psu
My server (known to all as Getafix):
Asustek P5GZ MX (LGA775 w/ Intel 945 chipset, onboard video, Gbit LAN)
Celeron 420 (Conroe-L core, only 35 W)
2x 512 Mb DDR2 533 Samsung
1x 120 Gb PATA HDD for testing but will add 2x SATA soon, probably WD Caviar.
400 W PSU
Cheers
Jonski_ wrote: My server (known to all as Getafix):
Asustek P5GZ MX (LGA775 w/ Intel 945 chipset, onboard video, Gbit LAN)
Celeron 420 (Conroe-L core, only 35 W)
2x 512 Mb DDR2 533 Samsung
1x 120 Gb PATA HDD for testing but will add 2x SATA soon, probably WD Caviar.
400 W PSU
Cheers
Forgot to say- the PSU and tower case came from my work's dumpster. Only had to get the mobo and cpu. All-up cost so far NZ$160, approx US$125. Am running the CTP release.
Abit Ab9 Pro (9x SATA
)Intel Pentium Dual Core E2140 (2 x 1,6 GHz)
2x Kingston 1Gb DDR2 553
3x Samsung SATA 500 GB
1x Maxtor SATA 320 GB
1x Maxtor PATA 250 GB
400W PSU
- Intel D865GLC Socket 478 Motherboard
(Onboard VGA, Sound, 6 USB2, Gigabit LAN, 2 IDE Channels, 2 SATA)
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (533FSB)
2x 256Mb DDR400 (Dual Channel)
1x 150Gb SATA WD Raptor (System Drive)
1x Pioneer DVD-RW Optical Drive
8x 250Gb IDE Western Digital Drives (In Enlight main server rackmount case)
12x 500Gb SATA Seagate Drives (In Norco rackmount hot-swap case)
1x ITE 8212 Raid IDE Controller
1x ITE 8212 ATAPI IDE Controller
1x Silicon Image 4 Port SATA Controller
1x Norco DS-1220e 12-bay SATA 3U Rackmount Case (Hot-swap caddies with 4 port multipliers built into case)
1x Enlight 8u Rackmount Server Case
(1x 900w Triple-redundant main power supply, 1x 450w Standard aux power supply)
4x 80mm High-speed fans in Enlight Case
2x 60mm High-speed fans in Enlight Case
3x 70mm High-speed fans in Norco Case
Note: Only the 150Gb Raptor has been "Added" to the WHS sotrage pool, all other drives have either been setup in hardware RAID and added as normal shares, or have been left as just single JBOD drives and added as normal shares. Blue_Darpa wrote: Intel D865GLC Socket 478 Motherboard
(Onboard VGA, Sound, 6 USB2, Gigabit LAN, 2 IDE Channels, 2 SATA)
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (533FSB)
2x 256Mb DDR400 (Dual Channel)
1x 150Gb SATA WD Raptor (System Drive)
1x Pioneer DVD-RW Optical Drive
8x 250Gb IDE Western Digital Drives (In Enlight main server rackmount case)
12x 500Gb SATA Seagate Drives (In Norco rackmount hot-swap case)
1x ITE 8212 Raid IDE Controller
1x ITE 8212 ATAPI IDE Controller
1x Silicon Image 4 Port SATA Controller
1x Norco DS-1220e 12-bay SATA 3U Rackmount Case (Hot-swap caddies with 4 port multipliers built into case)
1x Enlight 8u Rackmount Server Case
(1x 900w Triple-redundant main power supply, 1x 450w Standard aux power supply)
4x 80mm High-speed fans in Enlight Case
2x 60mm High-speed fans in Enlight Case
3x 70mm High-speed fans in Norco Case
Note: Only the 150Gb Raptor has been "Added" to the WHS sotrage pool, all other drives have either been setup in hardware RAID and added as normal shares, or have been left as just single JBOD drives and added as normal shares.Oh man, 8.150 Tb total capacity!
Intellistation M Pro
2 x Xeon 2.2GHZ
4 x 256mb RAM
2 x 500gb (Internal ATA)
2 x 300gb (Internal ATA)
2 x 250gb (Internal ATA)
1 x 160gb (Internal ATA)
1 x DVD Rom
External eSATA enclosure
5 x 500gb (SATA II)
4.33TB in WHS
ChristianJohansson wrote: Blue_Darpa wrote: Intel D865GLC Socket 478 Motherboard
(Onboard VGA, Sound, 6 USB2, Gigabit LAN, 2 IDE Channels, 2 SATA)
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (533FSB)
2x 256Mb DDR400 (Dual Channel)
1x 150Gb SATA WD Raptor (System Drive)
1x Pioneer DVD-RW Optical Drive
8x 250Gb IDE Western Digital Drives (In Enlight main server rackmount case)
12x 500Gb SATA Seagate Drives (In Norco rackmount hot-swap case)
1x ITE 8212 Raid IDE Controller
1x ITE 8212 ATAPI IDE Controller
1x Silicon Image 4 Port SATA Controller
1x Norco DS-1220e 12-bay SATA 3U Rackmount Case (Hot-swap caddies with 4 port multipliers built into case)
1x Enlight 8u Rackmount Server Case
(1x 900w Triple-redundant main power supply, 1x 450w Standard aux power supply)
4x 80mm High-speed fans in Enlight Case
2x 60mm High-speed fans in Enlight Case
3x 70mm High-speed fans in Norco Case
Note: Only the 150Gb Raptor has been "Added" to the WHS sotrage pool, all other drives have either been setup in hardware RAID and added as normal shares, or have been left as just single JBOD drives and added as normal shares.Oh man, 8.150 Tb total capacity!
Actually, its closer to 7.56Gb total capacity...
And the reason for not "adding" the 20 sotrage drives to the WHS storage pool is that if for any reason WHS dies, or Microsoft ever can the product, or I decide to stop using it, I can simply install another OS on the system drive and still have full access to all of the data contained on the drives.My server:
Intel P IV 3.0
1 GB Kingston
1 x 500GB Maxtor
1 x 80 GB WD
External 250 GB Targa (backup)
DVD-RW Lite-On
- My "Server"-System:
AMD Sempron 64 2800+
1.5GB Ram
160GB S-ATA2 HD
160GB S-ATA1 HD
(+ 120GB, 80GB IDE HD for testing...) I'm happy to revive my beloved dual-processor system in it's spacious full tower case.
Lian-Li PC70 (I think) aluminum case
Tyan Tiger MPX motherboard
Dual Athlon MP 2000+
1 GB Registered ECC Kingston RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 video card
3com Onboard NIC
250GB WD drive (system and Storage)
2x160GB Maxtor drive (Storage)
USB2.0/Firewire expansion card
HighPoint RocketRaid 1740-SATA II RAID
4x500GB Seagate HDD in RAID-5 (not included in Storage)
Total capacity is 500GB in Storage, plus 1.3TB in the RAID set. I wanted to keep the RAID outside of storage as it's about half full of movies I didn't want to have to rip again. When it is full, I will be adding another RAID card or two, as there is still space for 6-8 addtitional hard drives with those handy self-cooling 5.25 bay converters.
Once WHS was installed I tucked the box behind the couch and it's running headless, but within reach of monitor and keyboard cables if something breaks that WHS Console or Remote Desktop can't fix.
Blue_Darpa wrote: Not so much a home server, more a personal data centre....
Our system is based on
Tranquil T2e chassis - fan less (silent)
2x Samsung 500GB (SATA) HDDs in anti-vib (cooled) sub system
512MB DDR2 (Kingston RAM)
Custom VIA C7 powered main board
2x Giga LAN
4x on board USB2
4x PCI plate USB2
8x USB2 (on addtional PCI cards)
Total power consumption (no external HDDs) = 36 watts !!!!
total basic capacity - 1TB
potential (economic hdd) capacity = 18x 500GB = 9TB
potential (big HDDs) = 2x 500GB + 16x 1TB = 17TB
this is the T2e-HS server.....
Our 2nd system is based on
Tranquil T7 tiny chassis - fan less (silent)
1x Internal 80GB
512MB DDR2 (Kingston RAM)
Custom VIA C7 powered main board
2x Giga LAN
4x on board USB2
4x custom USB2
Total power consumption (no external HDDs) = 21 watts !!!!
total basic capacity - 80GB
potential (economic hdd) capacity = 8x 500GB = 4TB
potential (big HDDs) = 8x 1TB = 8TB
this is the T7-HS server.....
how do you find the PCI USB card - with 4x drives attached - any performance bottlenecks ?
While this isn't the place for hardware vendors to be 'touting' their wares, I reckon you are building you systems down to a price by only including an 80gb internal hard drive. Don't forget that this is also the staging area for all files that are being transferred from the clients and you can well lead to size limitations for the prospective transfers.
That is one of the reasons that Microsoft recommend that your system drive should be your largest drive.
Also, are you sure that the Via C7 will be able to cope with a couple of HD streams TO clients at the same time as maybe a couple of other clients are using BitTorrent and ripping a couple of movies?
Another point, relating to another post, as a hardware/software solution vendor, you are going to have to provide a method for your customers to identify all these USB attached drives. I see other companies are managing this, I guess with proprietry solutions, HP are using LED's, how are you going to implement it?
Colin
Tranquil,
Those two systems sound sweet! I have to agree with the comment, though, that you'll need to offer larger hard disks initially, and you may want to see about getting an intel dual-core system (if possible).
Do you sell to the US?
JK
at present we are 'listening' to what an ideal platform config may be.
the 'baby' unit may well be fitted with a 500GB HDD, after some appreciated feedback, but this has to be evaluated.
we do ship to US - but these HS units will be be shipping until Aug 2007.
thanks again, for valued feedback.
AMD 3200+
ASUS M2NPV-VM
2GB RAM
4 X 500GB SATA II Disk with Kingwin External Enclosures
Future upgrade will be a X2 Processor....
dk
Reading about some of the monster systems people are running makes my "Frankenserver" (so named because the power supply is too large for the micro-ATX case and sticks out the top) seem quite meager.
It's a 1.3GHz AMD Duron on a all-in-one Shuttle micro-ATX motherboard with 512MB PC-133 memory and a generic Realtek-based gigabit NIC. Storage is from a 160GB Seagate ATA-100 drive connected to a Promise Ultra 133 controller as the motherboard doesn't support 48-bit LBA for large drives. I also have a USB2/Firewire card to go in when I'm ready to start expanding storage.
- I've got:
Intel D945GCCRL Socket Motherboard
Sapphire x1650Pro PCIe
Intel Celeron D 346 3.06Ghz
Ultra 512MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHz
Western Digital IDE 250 Gig
Seagate SATA 500 Gig
Nec IDE 16x DVD-+R/RW
Ideally I will swap out the IDE hard drive with another SATA 500. The system will support up to 4 SATA devices, which I think allows for plenty of future hard drive expansion. Although not meant as a media server, I think the WHS could make an excellent one and I hope to expand on that functionality as more and more people push the OS to the limit. I'm running close to the same motherboard, have the 6150BK8MC from Foxconn with the same 430 chip. I'm trying to load WHS on the RAID 5 just from a usb jump drive and it looks like it takes it then reboots in the text mode of WHS install and after that BSOD. Can you provide a link of what driver version you used of the nvraid? I'm assuming you installed WHS on the RAID 5 as well. If you have any other comments of suggestions on the install process please feel free.
MSI K8MM3-V mainbord with lan and vga onboard.
Turion64 MT34 cpu. 1,8 Ghz 1,4V core load. 0,8 Ghz 1V core idle. (AMD PowerNow).
2* 512 Mb. Cosair Pc 3200 ram.
2,5" 160Gb. Samsung notebook drive (primary C and D).
3,5" 200Gb. Samsung Satall Drive.
3,5" 320Gb. Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 drive.
3,5" 320Gb. Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 drive.
3,5" 400Gb. Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drive.
Total storage 1400 Gb.
Powerconsumption on the wall outlet 71 Watts load. 41 Watts Idle.
Dell PowerEdge 400SC (shipped by Dell as a server).
Intel P4 @ 2.26Ghz
768MB RAM
160 & 320GB drives (WHS installed to the 320).
This system is *extremely* quiet - unless you stick your ear to it, you can't tell it's on. This system has previously been a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server (used for my RHCE training) and so far it hasn't gotten mad that it's been turned into a WHS :-)
.../Ed
- AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 processor
- 2 off SAMSUNG SpinPoint T166 HD501LJ 500gb drives
- Asus M2NPV-MX motherboard
- 2gb DDR2 ram
- Antec Sonata III case With 500W EarthWatts PSU (80PLUS® certified)
building this week!
looking forward to trying whs
A few years ago I purchased the Intel "Bonham" (S815EBM) m-ATX mobo with a 1U rackmount enclosure. Everything fine except that the whine of the fans and power supply made it unsuitable for polite conversation. So I installed the mobo in an inexpensive Antec minitower, worked on the fans and PS noise levels. Now I have the WHS in the living room and no complaints. Five PC's connected.
I originally built the server to work with BizTalk. BizTalk now needs much more power and memory. So I am looking at a new Xeon mobo.