A nice little toy

[Steadders]

Yesterday i got to upgrade a real mega machine. It was a HP DL760, a quick google would show you what these things are like.

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl760/images/prod-shot-oov.jpg

It takes up to 64gb of ram, and has 8 processors. The minimum upgrade you can do is 5gb (unless you only use 256mb memory sticks.)

The odd thing is, it only has 4 hard drive bays. I guess storage isn't it's main use. It weighs about 70kg and costs...well, have a look for yourself.

http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/ctoBases.asp?ProductLineId=431&FamilyId=1451&jumpid=re_hphqiss/Ovw_Buy/DL760G2

[Wildthang]

70Kg! Do you need a titanium rack to mount it? ;)

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Lease for as low as. wtf. that isn't low !!!
lol. that is a bit mega, put 8 xeons in each with 4mb cache :) by my calculations thats another £4000 per cpu :p: (correct me if im wrong :))

[Cheez]

Originally posted by Steadders
[B]The odd thing is, it only has 4 hard drive bays. I guess storage isn't it's main use. It weighs about 70kg and costs...well, have a look for yourself. If you can afford something like that you can afford the seperate NAS storage array or would already have a central SAN for storage.

[zhardoum]

Just what I was going to say, storage is its main thing, wait till you see one hooked up on a large scale array, its way mean..

What you have their, is the head of the best, wait till you see it attached to its body..

[AcidIce]

0-0... cor. Thats a bit beefy isn't it, vary nice :)

[Steadders]

I can't beleive they trusted me to upgrade it. Or the fact that when myself and one of the salesmen from the company were carrying it through to the build desk he managed to carry it by himself when we couldn't both fit through a small corridor.

[AcidIce]

70kg isn't non-doable, although its illegal for him to do that i imagine, i bet he didn't pick up from the knees while keeping his back straight either :p

[Nivek]

steadders, stop posting on the forums and get to i25

[Minidisk]

70kg isn't non-doable, although its illegal for him to do that i imagine, i bet he didn't pick up from the knees while keeping his back straight either

you dont get a lot of work done do you ;p

[AcidIce]

lol i think i have probably broken more health and safety laws than anyone else i know. working on theatre sound and lighting... aaaah the good old days.

[Steadders]

I noted when we were lifting it, he kind of gave me a disclaimer mid-lift "remember to keep your back stright"...

[AcidIce]

ah the age of free health care for employees isn't over then!

[skinner101]

nice toy but does it need a fridge to cool it?

[oxy]

bah pocket change :P

got 2x Jumpier Multi Service Access Nodes




~$1,000,000 each :D

and u need a hydrolic lift to move em:E

[bvark]

I've racked a high-end Juniper without a hydraulic lift (not much fun), and they're only $1M if you pay list price :-)

[Mingtea]

People actually pay list price?

and Bvark wins hard bastard award, Oxy loses.

[Jingles]

Originally posted by Steadders

It takes up to 64gb of ram

That might even satisfy bf2 then :D

[skinner101]

Did i hear a bf2 server?Wow great

[oxy]

Originally posted by bvark
I've racked a high-end Juniper without a hydraulic lift (not much fun), and they're only $1M if you pay list price :-)

list price pah! ... we got em free :P