{"id":471,"date":"2010-11-02T00:13:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T22:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/?p=471"},"modified":"2010-11-02T00:13:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T22:13:34","slug":"oh-no-the-server-virus-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2010\/11\/02\/oh-no-the-server-virus-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh no, the server virus strikes again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is flue season again, but this time it is not a regular flue but more like a server virus. I have had this virus before and it usually ends up in me spending a lot of money on very interesting hardware. The last times I had the virus, I bought:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2009\/03\/01\/server-rack-installed\/\">A server rack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2009\/03\/24\/ups-and-storage-rack-installed\/\">A UPS and a 19&#8221; storage rack<\/a> (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2009\/02\/27\/first-steps-in-lan-transformation\/#more-89\">here)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2006\/05\/30\/server-is-ordered\/\">A new server<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know where I caught this virus but perhaps it was already there and my resistance was weakened. Anyway, just spent the past evenings looking at specifications for this new server. Tonight this included a big search for a suitable CPU fan for which I also needed to dig in to some Intel motherboard specification to see whether it would fit or not. Since today I know what Universal Retention System and Unified Backplate Assembly mean.<\/p>\n<p>I now have a good setup for what my server &#8216;could&#8217; look like (supposing I would get it of course):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>19&#8221; server chassis: Supermicro SC743T-665B<\/li>\n<li>Processor: Intel Xeon L5630 (only one to start with, but can be extended), 40W TDP<\/li>\n<li>Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTi-F, dual socket motherboard, 5520 chipset<\/li>\n<li>Memory: 12GB ECC Registered DDR3-1066 (3x4GB)<\/li>\n<li>CPU Cooler: Intel STS100P<\/li>\n<li>DVD Rom: something with an ATA interface (below 20EUR in any case)<\/li>\n<li>Hard disk: in principle none (fully external storage).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interesting stuff&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: Reusing of course the RAID card, TV card, and eSATA bracket from my current setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is flue season again, but this time it is not a regular flue but more like a server virus. I have had this virus before and it usually ends up in me spending a lot of money on very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2010\/11\/02\/oh-no-the-server-virus-strikes-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}