Monday, August 15, 2005
Warning this is a highly technical entryEverything is down. Just DOWN.
Sorry guys if I seem insensitive lately. Everything is just down. Down in finance, home computer infrastructure crippled, down in social presence. Everything is just down.
The more problems I try to fix, the more crops up. Anyway, lately I’ve been damn busy, one thing after another just keeps demanding my already limited attention. Now my computer system is down! The network is still up, but the complete file-storage architecture is down.
After all the shit that has happened, this is my DREAM SYSTEM.
If you just ignore all the Dell logos, this is the ideal single-cabinet server solution that I just need! I'll start from the bottom, dual APC 4.5kVA UPS 208V/120V battery backup units, then a Hitachi DLT tape-backup storage, application server (dual xeon 3.06ghz) UltraSCSI network adapter, server control panel with 19" monitor, interface server I/O, 3x cisco ultra fibreoptic gigabit switches and 6x 2U rack-mount servers.
Actually all I probably need is 2 Hitachi SAN units, something like this
This one has got 3 redundant power supply units you can see in the rear. So if one power supply fails, the others take over immediately. In the front there are 12 SATA harddrive bays, each hot-swappable, configured to a 4-drive storage with 3x redundancy. 4 Drives of 500gb to a total of 2TB configuration and 3x redundancy or configurable. So if one harddrive fails, or the system detects eminent harddrive failure, there will be 2 other harddrives to immediately take-over. Or you can set 12x500GB for a total of 6Terabytes (that’s 6000 gigabytes) of storage space.
5U storage server with 24x hot-swappable SATA HDD Bays, Intel Xeon 3.06GHz, 2 GB DDR Memory(Samsung), 3x3Ware Escalade 7506-8 RAID Card, 24xSeagate 120GB IDE HDD, 500W Zippy Redundant APFE Power Supply, Windows 2003 Server Edition
Tyan RM5025 2U Quad Opteron Rackmount Chassis w/1350W 3 + 1 Redundant Power Supply. QUAD-Opteron! Makes Intel go crying home to mommy. 4 processors on a nice 2U rack enclosure.
So maybe what I really want is 2 quad-opteron servers, 2 APC UPS backups, 2 SAN storage servers, 1 gigabit lan switch and 1 application server, a total of 28 harddrives and a APC PDU (power distribution unit) and one tower cabinet with Sanyo Denki fan ventilation system and water inter-coolers.
So when one hard drive fails, the others take over immediately, full system redundancy to prevent data disasters and nightmares like the one I am going through right now. No more harddisk crashes, viruses, spyware, com laggy, blah blah blah. All that IT headaches you and I are so familiar with.
All this would just be a memory if only I had. . .
$12k + $12k + $4k + $28k + $4k + $6k + $10k = $76k
76k!!!Soon I'll put up some pictures on the complete computer surgery under going in my room.
STOP WHINING LIKE A BABY AND FIX IT.
FIX FIX FIX!!! So I hereby stop whining and back to fixing my baby. Computers need love too. This is what happens when there's no love..
Someone give me seventy-six thousand dollars and I'll advertise whatever you want to advertise here.
7:51 PM
