legit!Originally Posted by POO POO CANNON
legit!
Finished purchasing all the parts for my server. Got 2 more 2TB WD Red drives, a Perc 5i and a 40mm fan to attach to the 5i. Should all come on Tuesday. Pretty ready to get this build underway.
post some pics.
I have no doubt that understand computers. What I'll be interested in is how you so comfortably make such a blanket statement-- that regardless of the question, when you account for quality, utility and price, Apple is always the answer. You are poo pooing a pretty wide universe of products ('specially if you really do try to extend that to iphone v. every Android on the market).
Last edited by Phil Theehor; 1 Week Ago at 09:59 PM.
If you have money and don't consider customization or flexibility important in any of your computing endeavors Apple is great. If your computer or your phone is a means to an end Apple works.
I like to tinker and customize everything to suit my needs. Can't do that with Apple/OS X/iOS. I also like to get the most bang for my buck, which you definitely can't do with Apple.
I like the build quality of the MBPs...probably the best laptops out there. They keep them pretty modern hardware wise and the price is comparable to similarly equipped PC laptop. I've considered buying one and putting Linux/Windows on it but you lose some of the cool features (graphics switching for one) that OS X provides. I won't touch the rest of the lineup...especially the desktops.
TLDR different strokes for different folks. I always found the Apple vs. PC argument retarded.
I've upgraded the RAM in both my iMac and MBP. I switched to apple after I started doing motion graphics, 3d, and video. Those were the computers we had in school so I switched. I would still own a PC in the future when I get a chance, at least just for gaming so many good games never come to Mac or are ported badly. Would also like to try some of the pc only programs like 3DS max or something.
I love my apple products but I do wish you could upgrade more than RAM and hard drive. At least the graphics card would be nice.
Looking to get a wireless router for my dad, what is a decent enough moderately to cheaply priced brand. Haven't bought one in a long time.
linksys
Maybe I should say a specific model. Linksys and Netgear in all my years is moderately priced at best and even their high end stuff seems to be buggy as hell a good chuck of the time.
Basicly hr needs one that works, doesn't need to be AN AC or Dual band N, doesn't need any special networking tools. Just needs to work.
Look into the Medialink routers, they're a kind of dumbed-down, more user-friendly router. My brother got one and set it up fairly easily and he's not exactly tech savy.
Yeah I've been reading reviews about those and they seem to be a pretty good fit, just had never heard of them.
It's finally up and running. I've got 4 2TB WD Red hard drives configured for RAID10. It's almost done initializing now. When that's done, I'll start the ESXi install, which hopefully the key I found for it works.
Got it up and running. Had some issues with datastores in ESXi. Turns out, the SAS controller I have doesn't play nice with VT-d, so once I disabled VT-d in the BIOS, everything ran perfectly. Was able to roll my motherboard's NIC drivers into ESXi using ESXI Customizer, so I didn't even need the Intel NIC I bought. Got my first VM up, an Ubuntu 12.04 box I'll use for my media server. Got a little cable management to do.
What case is that?
Fractal Design Define XL. Great case. Absolutely silent, with rubber grommets on the hard drive trays and sound dampening foam on the case covers. 3 120mm fans come with it, with room for 2 more. It's like a Lian Li but steel instead of aluminum.
8/10 will consider for next build.
And the cable management solution is pretty sweet. Lots of little areas to tuck cables away out of sight.
Here's the rubber grommets on the drive trays. Eliminates vibration noise.
$10 cable I bought to cut down on power runs to the drives. Works great.
And finally.
settled.
lulz
Finished with all the hardware.
Business in the front:
Party in the back:
What's your total storage with that beast? And are you running a RAID? If so, which?
The top cage contains the RAID set. 3 2TB drives running RAID5, about 4TB usable, with the 4th drive as a hot spare. The rest of the drives are RDMs attached to my home server VM, totalling a little over 4TB.
If I need more storage for datastores, I'm going to take my old server and turn it into a NAS device and use iSCSI for datastores in VSphere.
Impressive.
Is this all for personal use or you also working from home?
I work from home sometimes, but no, this is all for personal use. I plan on using it for test beds for technology I work with, as well as file storage/entertainment.
Willing to post the recipe for this beastie and an estimate on cost? It looks like my best excuse to ignore the next winter.
Very cool. I thought my 6x1tb RAID-Z2 setup was impressive. I've got four 1TB drives in use with two 1TB drives held back. I was going to go bigger but I never break the 40% usage mark so I can't really justify it.
Anyway, nice job.
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