About this Server

Software

Fedora Core 3 Linux

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New Hardware Being Configured

quantity	manufacturer	part number	description
1	AMD	OSA246AUBOX	Opteron 246 processor (2.0 GHz)
1	Tyan	S2892G3NR	Thunder K8SE motherboard
2			1 GiB¹ PC3200 registered ECC DDR SDRAM DIMM
1	3ware	Escalade 9550SX-8LP	Serial ATA RAID controller (PCI-X)
5	Maxtor	7L300S0	MaXLine III 300GB SATA disk drives
1	SuperMicro	SC822T-550LPB	2U rackmount case with 550W EPS12V power supply and six hot-swap SATA trays
1	SuperMicro	CBL-0068-01	front panel breakout cable
1	CoolerMaster	E2U-K65CS-01	2U CPU cooler (copper heatsink with side fan)
	Arctic Silver	Céramique	thermal compound
1		SOHW-1693S	DVD/CD recordable drive
1			IDE-to-SATA converter

Current Hardware

quantity	manufacturer	part number	description
1	AMD		Athlon XP 2500+ processor (1833 MHz)
1	Asus	A7V600	motherboard
3			256 MiB¹ PC2700 DDR SDRAM DIMM
1	3ware	Escalade 7500-4LP	ATA RAID controller
4	Maxtor	6Y200P0	DiamondMax Plus 9 200 GB (189 GiB¹) ATA disk drive
1	unknown	unknown	2U rack-mount case, custom made for a failed dot-com
1	Zippy Technology	EMACS R2G-6300P	redundant 300W power supply

On 10-Aug-2003, the old server machine was destroyed in a fire.

Thanks go to Scott Dattalo, Steven Ellis, and Brad Parker for their generous contributions which helped to defray the cost of the replacement machine.

¹In the computer industry, the SI prefixes kilo, mega, giga, and tera are often used to refer to powers of two rather than powers of ten. Technically such usage is incorrect, so the IEC has standardized new prefixes for binary multiples. A mebibyte (MiB) is 2²⁰ or 1,048,576 bytes, as opposed to a megabyte (MB) which is 10⁶ bytes. A gibibyte (GiB) is 2³⁰ or 1,073,741,824 bytes, vs. a gigabibyte which is 10⁹ bytes.

Main memory capacity is normally quoted in "megabytes" which are really 2²⁰ bytes and thus more correctly named mebibytes. However, disk drive manufacturers normally do rate the capacity of their products in true megabytes (10⁶ bytes), which results in the discrepancy that it is not possible to store one "megabyte" of main memory into a megabyte of disk space without using some form of compression.

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