Just got a server rack from a friend, like the one in this pic. what are some things that I can do with it?
Just got a server rack from a friend, like the one in this pic. what are some things that I can do with it?
Hudson Campbell
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Ryder Ross
If you reinforce the front, you could probably lock someone in there against their will for a while.
Sebastian Wright
Build a cluster out of cheap used dual socket xeons, you can get them for like $30
Chase Hill
I'm american so most people would be to wide to fit :(
Kayden Watson
what could you do with that cluster?
Angel Kelly
run h@h
Evan Cooper
Sell it, dude.
Computers are so powerful today that almost nobody needs a home server for anything. And certainly not more than one server -- most people would struggle to find stuff to do with 32GB of ram and a few TB of disk space.
Server racks belong in data centres, not in your home.
Jonathan Brown
Shove it up your fucking ass. Then start a giant cp seedbox while it's up there, kek
Kayden Lewis
>cheap used dual socket xeons, you can get them for like $30
>50$/mo in electricity
"""cheap"""
Dominic Ward
Leave Sup Forums until you realize this board is not for most people.
Alexander Myers
Put servers in it. Run a few for various online games and use the rest for your neighborhood's sneakernet hub
Brandon Sullivan
come on
Thomas Torres
start a webhosting company
Liam Watson
Get some cheap 24-bay 4U chassis, fill it up with HDDs and hoard data.
Ryan Campbell
Go to that site with the used government stuff. There's usually a schoolboard or something selling off all their old equipment for dirt cheap - you'll be able to fill this up with ~7ish year old equipment in no time.
Easton Wilson
>cheap 24-bay 4U chassis
>still need a motherboard and probably 90 PCI-SATA cards
Wew.
Grayson Roberts
Thats a dank ass coffin!
Gavin Lewis
Get someone to lock you inside of it and and then get other guys to jack off and cum on the screen while you watch
Cameron Garcia
Fill it up cheap ebay servers and use the hot air to heat your house.
Bonus points if power is cheap or you dont pay for it.
Joshua Diaz
pretty much this. a friend bought a rack of used xeons for fun. it's loud, power-hungry and doesn't do anything a decently powerful desktop PC can't do.
Owen Stewart
>SATA
It comes with a backplane, you'd just need to pick up a cheap SAS expander from ebay.
It also fits ATX power supplies so no need to bother with deafening server PSUs.
Chase Long
5 SAS connections then?
Sebastian Russell
Yeah, that should work, the most recommended HP expander has 6 iirc.
Although to be fair, I'm currently in the middle of researching this stuff. Planning on a build like this so I can have an easily expandable NAS. Seems like a way cleaner solution than just shoving disks into multiple towers, even if a bit more expensive.
Logan Davis
well i assume that you have something to put in it? if so, do that. if not, why did you get a rack?
b8/8
Luke Howard
>HP expander
Does that allow you to pass the disks through? I think it's called HBA or something, it's recommended for ZFS since it gives direct access to the drives.
Michael Barnes
It plugs into the HBA card or a RAID controller. The expander itself is completely transparent to the OS or the motherboard.
Though a HBA card is a better choice for ZFS, since I've read that some RAID cards are wonky with direct access even in JBOD mode.
Levi Perez
just buy 3x ibm m1015
Adrian Green
Thats a big chassis...
Zachary Edwards
UUUU
Ryder Adams
4U
Hunter Richardson
grow weed in it
Samuel Wright
send your electric bill into the stratosphere.
blow out your eardrums with the noise.
