Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Server Woes


I had a server crash on Monday, 2 hours before 20 people came for dinner. A power surge damaged the UPS and two of the three hard drives in the machine.
Fortunately I have a spare server and 6 hours hours later we were back on line. However the hard drives were damged beyond repair with a lot of disk errors. We did manage to get some data off them.
I purchased a new server and it has some pretty awesome technology in it. I puchased an Athlon S939 AMD 3200 chip and a Asus A8N SLI Premium motherboard. This has a heat pipe to suck the heat away from the CPU. It also supports twin SLI Video cards though I didn't need these for a Linux Server. It also came with a expansion slot external S-ATA drive connector.
Roh installed Cent OS on it.


Posted by: Jethro | 6:01 PM |