Anand's Server upgrade article is up!!

Choralone

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Wow. 17 servers total to keep this place running. What will it be a this time next year? 30?
:Q
 

Muerto

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I'd better not read that article. I'd probably drool so much my keyboard would short out! :p
 

NesuD

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I would never have thought that i would find an article about Anandtechs server farm interesting but I have thoroughly enjoyed each of them. What i wouldn't give to get to play with a tenth of the hardware they are using.
 

Snipa

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that was a really cool, well-done article.

(me goes to get paper towel to clean up all the drool on my desk :) )
 

mcveigh

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What!!! he didn't want to spend $25,000 on hardware, I thought Anand was made of money :D

very cool though, and an excellent article, well written and plenty of pictures!!!

Actually I want to have the same kind of setup at my house one day :)


Keep it up guys!!
 

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<< I'd better not read that article. I'd probably drool so much my keyboard would short out! :p >>



Mine too!
 

Adul

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<< Actually I want to have the same kind of setup at my house one day :) >>



Do that and I will be drooling. :p

A lot of drooling in this forum, anyone want a bib?
 
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awesome article anand.
I would be building some servers at work and we are going the AMD way, with a SOYO mobo with PC133 chips, these arent webservers rather file servers holding 600GB of data on external scsi drive. The drives are from Medea Corp.. we already have quite a few of them.. they are reliable enough for us, though the other machines run raid 0 externally .. this one wont be raided externally, just the internal raid will be used.
 

Gunther

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I am really impressed by their servers and the amount they have, I wonder if they all belong to anand, if they do then I HATE HIM! jk I like boi wonder. BTW Anand can you give me a couple of your servers and your bmw, thanks :)

p.s. I agree aquaman those racks are VERY nice, I want to grab them and hold them and cuddle them and play with them and squeeze them and use them for my &quot;pleasures&quot;... time to go to the bathroom...
 

UT4EVER

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HAHA! :D

Anand picked Gigabyte GA-7DX for his Tbirds. My next mobo is gonna be a GA-7DXR when it becomes available....KT266 my @$$ :p
 

Antisocial Virge

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So the MSI K7T Pro went bad. Hmmm...I knew he should have went with Abit...always knew the MSI boards were crap...



:D *running for the hills with a angry mob after me*
 

Sohcan

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Hehe, check out this tidbit on page 4:


<< So when an AnandTech Web Server prepares Page 5 of our AMD 760MP Review and sends it off to you, it sends it through its own network cards directly to you and not through the load balancer. >>



:D
 

PG

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damn, i wanna work for anand there... hehe... thunderbirds, dual xeons... GB's of memory.. drool....

I felt the same way until I read the part about working until 4 am! There's no way I could hack that. I need my sleep.:)
 

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<< damn, i wanna work for anand there... hehe... thunderbirds, dual xeons... GB's of memory.. drool....

I felt the same way until I read the part about working until 4 am! There's no way I could hack that. I need my sleep.:)
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Sleep is for the weak! ;)

I would love that myself. :)