The story of my home server

[JonathanYoung]

It was October, 2004. Fry's was having another motherboard/CPU combo for $59.99, this time some kind of Sempron with an ECS K7VTA3. Took it home along with a stick of 256, put it together with my spare hard drives, installed XP on it, and then banished it to the server closet (actually a furnace closet, but we don't use our furnace - and yes, the gas is turned off).

The only other times that it was allowed to see the light of day: a couple of hard drive upgrades, and a Rosewill PSU failure (busted caps).

Fast forward to 2008. It's been running for 4 years, 24/7, serving our mp3s, PDFs, xvids, and other files. It provides extra backup for our desktops. When I'm away from home, it gives me access to files I need in a pinch. And all the while, it processes data for SETI@HOME.

I love my home server.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

My home server is running WHS, and currently has 6 TB of hard drive space, and I'm at 27% available now. The machine crunches 24/7, and is running on a little Dual Core and Asus mobo. Works wonderfully. The case it is in is all but ordinary. 23 bay double-wide server case. And it has pictars!

 

[KGB]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
My home server is running WHS, and currently has 6 TB of hard drive space, and I'm at 27% available now. The machine crunches 24/7, and is running on a little Dual Core and Asus mobo. Works wonderfully. The case it is in is all but ordinary. 23 bay double-wide server case. And it has pictars!

FMC... 27% left???? What the hell do you save?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: KGBMAN

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
My home server is running WHS, and currently has 6 TB of hard drive space, and I'm at 27% available now. The machine crunches 24/7, and is running on a little Dual Core and Asus mobo. Works wonderfully. The case it is in is all but ordinary. 23 bay double-wide server case. And it has pictars!

FMC... 27% left???? What the hell do you save?

Everything. I have about 7 versions of ICQ, etc. I never delete software. Plus I've already ripped my CD collection, and am working my way through my DVD collection. Then there are the 40+ miniDV tapes that I need to download.

EDIT: Damn, now down to 25%.

 

[Zap]

My home server...

Mobile Pentium 4 1.6GHz, undervolted to around 1.2v and overclocked to 1.9GHz
Shuttle motherboard with P865 chipset and Intel CSA LAN (woot!)
Alpha 6086 (or something like that) pin fin heatsink with an NMB 80mm fan
Antec Solo case
two 92mm undervolted fans (forgot brand), no exhaust fan
Two Maxtor DiamondMax Pro 500GB SATA HDD soft mounted
PCI Tseng Labs ET6000 video card
PCI 3Com 10/100 NIC
Antec Phantom 350W passive PSU

The system is pretty darn inaudible and the front panel LEDs don't work, so the only reason I know it is on is if I can still go out on the internet, as it does router duty. Also, the PSU has an LED bar in the rear so if the lights are off I can see a slight blue glow on the wall behind it.

As mentioned, it is the router. It also shares two printers and files, plus runs torrents.