MORE SPEED CAPTAIN! New Server on the way!

[SeR_Cyclops]

You know what they say..... The faster the better!

 

[MS3_KIDD]

protege kid-it means, no more forum being down for 5 hours at a time.

yay and all this time i just thought it was my gay internetz or computerz
so its like a mazdaspeed server now i guess (2thumbs)

 

[Protege03ak46]

hahaha, you guys should seriously slap on a mazdaspeed badge on the new stuff, and post it up here.
th at would be awesome!

 

[Alejo_NIN]

what happened to 10,000 RPM drives?
is that for a celeron CPU? lol

good stuff!

 

[MAZDA_SPEED]

nice nice

whats the current server specs?

x2

 

[MS3_KIDD]

hahaha, you guys should seriously slap on a mazdaspeed badge on the new stuff, and post it up here.
th at would be awesome!

x2!!!!!!! lolz

 

[m626gt]

Alright! If only I had enough money to make my cars twice as fast.

 

[ghettoracingkid]

Awesome....

What are the current specs?

 

[zinger002]

You know what they say..... The faster the better!

speed is nothing without control.

no matter how fast a hd can read, if the rest of the computer cant keep up, all that speed is useless.

and dell??? why

 

[prof15]

what happened to 10,000 RPM drives?
is that for a celeron CPU? lol

good stuff!

(hand) seriouly lol... you can use any drive in any computer. But with a Celeron's are so slow its not even worth any upgrades..

 

[JDM-P5]

This is great news!
(cabpatch)

 

[ucMP3]

No more boredom at work when the server goes down.

 

[Breeegz]

needs a velociraptors not regular 7200RPM drives

otherwise, nice upgrade

Or... SAS is balls
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1547564

how about 4 drives in raid 0+1? or take these two and use raid 1....

looks like a great setup. what software runs the server?
(what OS and server package)

by the way, would whoever's in change want a dedicated OS drive so you could put the new ones in RAID and have them be content only? i have a few 40GB laying around, nothing great but i could donate one.

Build your own SAN, multiple servers accessing the same content with instant failover. Or IBM makes a sweet blade server that has really nice failover capabilities, if one server dies, you can hot swap it and us customers don't even have to know. How much storage does the Forums require (we had 2 TB configured at my old work)?

I hear those things freaking scream!

what happened to 10,000 RPM drives?
is that for a celeron CPU? lol

good stuff!

I used to admin 15,000 SCSI drives... those scream too.

 

[yudkib]

Or... SAS is balls

those are definitely sweet, but getting a TB of storage would cost as much as a second server. if i were going to spend money like that, id find ways to put the most recent content on solid state, clocked at INFINITY rpm.
(ok technically 0)

Build your own SAN, multiple servers accessing the same content with instant failover. Or IBM makes a sweet blade server that has really nice failover capabilities...

those blade servers are pretty sweet too, but if we're hailing a 2.6ghz with 6 gig of memory as the server's savior, we're a long way from a blade server. putting a few drives in a RAID array is a lot simpler than setting up a SAN too... and only needs one computer.

I used to admin 15,000 SCSI drives...

before my time, but didn't those literally scream too? i vaguely remember booting up some stuff before i'd go to lunch and have the SCSI drives still spinning up when i got back

just offering my .02 for the admins... its a lot easier to set up RAID when there's nothing on the drives, and it's nothing you can't do with one machine... think of the speed...

 

[Kooldino]

Woo!

 

[Laser Blue]

YAY.... The Forum's going from NA to twin turbo!!!

 

[gonerogue]

speed is nothing without control.

no matter how fast a hd can read, if the rest of the computer cant keep up, all that speed is useless.

and dell??? why

These days, disk I/O IS the hardware bottleneck.

'Grats on the new system!

Personally, I would have gone with 10K SAS drives considering the number of hits to this site. SATA is great for large capacity, but SAS is where it's at if you're looking for performance without dropping a load on SSDs.

I'd imagine that the admin is mirroring the two SATA drives. I just hope it is hardware RAID with a decent controller (I'm not familiar with Dell). If not, LVM is pretty decent

 

[Antoine]

UPDATE!

SERVER IS IN & BEING INSTALLED! (rockon)

 

[Antoine]

UPDATE!

We should be running on the new server within the next 48 hours...Stay tuned and hold on tight...We're going MAZDASPEED! (rockon)

 

[08MicaMS3]

in that case, we'll be blowing up here fairly quickly