My Home Server Room Update Again

i have recently got 2 more new server racks and have put a little order to them.
Only got six of them to fit on the one side wall so the other one is sitting in my garage. Bought another ibm server because i really do like them and wanted to have a spare. Downfall was i had to add longer network cables and that really makes my fingers sore untwisting the wires and separating them to fit in the rj45 jacks for that many machines. my home server room and repair area. I have a total of 11 server racks with the ML series and DL series of hp servers and some misc ones i have built. I have 3 servers that are setup as an RIS server and WDS server. Two servers do video for my 25 security cameras around the house and others run web services and ftp services. Some are setup up with many hard drives that hold computer images for clients computers that i work on part time. One server also records my tv shows and sends them up to my television upstairs. My small network rack has 3 24 port switches that ties in with 4 other 16 port switches located in other parts of the house. I use 10 - 4 port belin kvms and 2- 8 port kvmsto reduce the number of keyboards mice and monitors needed. It adds about 2500.00 a year to my electric bill I guestimate. If you can afford the servers you can afford the electricity for those that keep asking.

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[PoliticalHell]

My god, are you a millionaire or something?

[Mrthemaxdj1]

@PoliticalHell Maybe would be if i didnt buy all of it.

[bob070716]

This would be impressive if it was updated shit... I have 4 Dell 710's all running in a closet connected to a 40TB SAN with x2 Fios 100mb connections. So all that plus more in something that's 1/25 the size of your room. Do yourself a favor and spend the extra cash to get some horse power in trade for some extra cash in your pocket from the electric bill.

[Mrthemaxdj1]

@bob070716 If i would have bought dell servers i would probably hide them in a closet to. All my servers are upgraded as high as they can be and 90% have been custom built in the last 2 yearsand many are quad processors. HP and IBMs are the best ones i bought over the years and i have been in the IT field longer than you have been alive.

[amalavasi]

everything impressive until it gets to the linksys router hahaha

[Mrthemaxdj1]

@amalavasi and what do you use? Lets see what you have

[csparty11]

OMG this is completely insane, I suggest you get rid of this old crap and invest in nice SAN and use virtualisation technology and you can achieve the same thing much cheaper and lower your electrical bill and noise get rid of most racks because you only need one then ;)

[10chadjordan01]

@Mrthemaxdj1 Soooo true. I had an individual tell me that I should have bought an i7 system because I would have saved money. Crazy for him/her to say that because I have an HP Proliant DL 580 G2 and it only cost me 70.00

That's with 4 Intel Xeon 2.8 ghz cpu's and 4GB's of ram. The i7 chip by itself would have cost a lot more than the entire system did and I know my upgrades still won't surpass the price of a faster/newer system. I know you've done well. :)

[HazzaripHD]

Welcome back to the nerd cave guys!

[DeGeronimoLP]

OMG

[EpicAMDGamer]

@Mrthemaxdj1 burned ^

[gmcnewlook]

@revcletis yeah and have that exact model too.....

[Perderedeus]

Yikes, man. What are you serving up? And what's your electricity bill? Is it worth it?

[NightWolfx03]

@Mrthemaxdj1 I use linux and a P4 2 ghz boxen :D

[Help4heroesROCK]

i wonder if it can play minecraft?