Thread: Teams with Servers
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Unread 06-06-2012, 02:03
sanddrag sanddrag is offline
On to my 16th year in FRC
FRC #0696 (Circuit Breakers)
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Rookie Year: 2002
Location: Glendale, CA
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Re: Teams with Servers
Well, I got the server done and installed. It's a 2U half-depth Rackable Systems C2004 with twin Xeon 5150 Dual Core processors at 2.66GHz and 8GB of DDR2 RAM. I have four 1TB SATA drives in it on a ZFS filesystem in RAIDZ configuration under FreeNAS as the OS. FreeNAS is not quite as fully-featured and refined as I'd like it to be, but it's a good simple easy to use system that should be fairly reliable. It's working rather well. FreeNAS does has several nice features as opposed to other options. I have under $400 into the whole thing including tax and shipping, and that does include new drives (on sale/coupon). The CPUs are a bit overkill for just NAS, but I got the system at a good price. I'm pretty happy.

The next thing I want to look at is getting ahold of Vault server 2013 and experimenting with that.
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Teacher/Engineer/Machinist - Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2011 - Present
Mentor/Engineer/Machinist, Team 968 RAWC, 2007-2010
Technical Mentor, Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2005-2007
Student Mechanical Leader and Driver, Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2002-2004
Last edited by sanddrag : 06-06-2012 at 02:06.