Singularity, Part III: Construction

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Singularity, Part III: Construction

Articles in this series
Singularity, Part I: Confessions of a Digital Pack Rat (http://blog.deadgod.net/2007/11/07/Singularity_Part_I_Confessions_of_a_Digital_Pack_R at)
Singularity, Part II: The Network Upgrade (http://blog.deadgod.net/2007/11/15/Singularity_Part_II_The_Network_Upgrade)
Singularity, Part III: Construction
Singularity, Part IV: Performance Testing (http://blog.deadgod.net/2008/01/25/Singularity_Part_IV__Performance_Testing)
Singularity, Part V: Conclusion

Intro

This part has been delayed a bit. First, at least one memory DIMM was bad. Second, the motherboard had two fried SATA ports. Thrid, it was Thanksgiving weekend, so getting RMAs placed was nearly impossible.

Still, we got everything up and running. I won't do much more talking here. This part is mainly for the pics! ;)

Click here for the rest of this article.

Before

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/PDRM0001.JPG

After

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/case-5.jpg

Hardware

Case: LIAN LI PC-201B (http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx?i=2758&p=5)
Power Supply: Antec TP3-650 (http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=23650)
Motherboard: Asus M2N-LR (http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1352&l1=9&l2=39&l3=263) 6 on-board SATA2 ports
Processor: AMD Opteron 1214 (http://products.amd.com/en-us/EmbeddedCPUDetail.aspx?id=23)
RAM: TWIN2X2048-8500C (http://corsairmemory.com/_datasheets/TWIN2X2048-8500C5.pdf) 2GB Total system memory
HBA: LSI SAS3080X-R (http://www.computergiants.com/items/one_item.asp?part=163360&aff=1&zmam=6444850&zmas=1&zmac=5&zmap=LSI00117) 8 SATA2 ports
OS HDDs: WD800JD (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=83) 2 x 80GB SATA2 drives
Array HDDs: WD7500AAKS (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=311) 12 x 750GB SATA2 drives

Construction

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/case-2.jpg

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/motherboard-1.jpg

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/motherboard-3.jpg

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/lab.jpg

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/PDRM0003.JPG

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/drivebrick-1.jpg

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/lsi-2.jpg

http://liquidx.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Nicks_Photos/Singularity/motherboard-5.jpg


Next: Singularity, Part IV: Performance Testing (http://blog.deadgod.net/2008/01/25/Singularity_Part_IV__Performance_Testing)

[Colonel_Lance]

Holy cow. You guys documented this whole thing extremely well. I would never have the patience for something like that lol.

Again, great job guys and I can't wait for part IV!

[Monkey]

that server is massive, and awesome... But can it see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

Because THEY'RE COVERED WITH SUGAR