Home Office
I forgot to post this last month, and I have since acquired a couple more pieces of equipment the most impressive one being an HP DL360G5 4G RPS Performance Server. Dual QC 5345 Xeon, 16gb FB ECC RAM, 6×146gb 10K SAS SFF hard drives, in a 1U. Here is the post I saved last month. Don’t miss the recent photos at the bottom of the post.
In 2007 a friend and I both started moving out equipment to rack mount setups. We each had our own reasons, but the common reasons were saving space, organization, and it is kinda nice to say you have a rack in your house. When I was looking for a rack/cabinet I found someone a couple hours away that had a lightly used 45U fully enclosed cabinet for sale. The cabinet came with sides, doors, caster base, two shelves, four-fan unit for the top, and a $350 price tag. A few days after picking up the cabinet I spoke with him again and we made a deal that resulted in me having an entire car full (trunk full and front and back seats full to the ceiling) of equipment. I recreated an album containing the older pictures of the cabinet, and how things were organized, which can be viewed in the Rack Project album.
After moving to Atlanta I was able to acquire even more rack mount equipment and fill in some of the gaps I had to leave empty in the beginning. The details of what is in the cabinet can be read on my Gear page, but here is a parent list.
- Linksys WRT54G 4-Port 10/100 54mb Wireless Router
- Canon CanoScan 8400F
- brother HL Series HL-2070N Laser Printer,
- 4U, Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Desktop
- 5U, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ File Server
- 1U, Intel Pentium III, 850mhz Endian Firewall/Router
- 1U, Intel Pentium 4, 2.4ghz IBM x305 Servers (x4)
- 1U, Tripp Lite HTR07-1U UPS (x2)
- 1U, Dell PowerConnect 5012 Gigabit Switch
- 1U, Cisco Catalyst 2900 XL 24 port Switch
- 1U, CAT5e 24 port Patch Panel
- 1U, Rack Writer
- 2U, Intel Pentium 4, 2.6C Linux Desktop
I am currently not using the Cisco switch, the 2U desktop, or any of the x305 1Us on a regular basis. With the monitor and 5.1 audio connected to the same power source I am pulling 515 watts right now, which does raise the power bill, but not to an outrageous amount.
I am opening up time to start doing a little consulting so I have taken some time to organize the work space and make it a better work environment. The following pictures are of my home office that were taken on March 2nd, Home Office album is on PicasaWeb.
