As the blog title suggests, it's pretty much built out of spare parts i had lying around.
Before it got rebuilt for Xen, it had half the RAM and two 1TB Spinpoint F3 Hard drives. It was the failure of one of those hard drives that prompted this rebuild.
Currently the hardware is as follows:
AMD Phenom II X2 555 @4.08Ghz
8GB of Corsair DDR3 RAM (4x2GB)
AMD Radeon 6540 1GB GPU
OCZ Solid3 120GB SSD
Titan Fenrir CPU Cooler
Generic 600W PSU
The hardware is a little quirky in some regards.
-The CPU overclocked well at stock voltages, but sadly i was not one of the lucky people that could unlock some of the two disabled CPU cores present on this model.
-I had to remove the top parts of the RAM heatsinks from the inner two slots to enable them to fit under the CPU heatsink.
-The SSD is a somewhat flaky model that i managed to rescue from the dead with a firmware reflash, so i'm not trusting it for reliability. I may do a follow-up post on this later.
-There is an optical drive plugged in for no real reason, i only remembered it was there when taking the pictures. Might remove this later.
And for the other main part of the equation, my trusty old NAS unit which i'll be using as NFS storage for the server.
This NAS contains:
Atom N270 CPU @1.6Ghz
2GB DDR2 RAM (upgraded from 1GB)
3x 3TB Western Digital 3TB Caviar Green WD30EZRX in RAID5 giving 5585MB of usable space
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