Singularity, Part III: Construction

Articles in this series
Singularity, Part I: Confessions of a Digital Pack Rat
Singularity, Part II: The Network Upgrade
Singularity, Part III: Construction
Singularity, Part IV: Performance Testing
Singularity, Part V: Conclusion

Intro

This part has been delayed a bit. First, at least one memory DIMM was bad. Second, the motherboard had two fried SATA ports. Thrid, it was Thanksgiving weekend, so getting RMAs placed was nearly impossible.

Still, we got everything up and running. I won't do much more talking here. This part is mainly for the pics! ;)



Before


After


Hardware

Case: LIAN LI PC-201B
Power Supply: Antec TP3-650
Motherboard: Asus M2N-LR 6 on-board SATA2 ports
Processor: AMD Opteron 1214
RAM: TWIN2X2048-8500C 2GB Total system memory
HBA: LSI SAS3080X-R 8 SATA2 ports
OS HDDs: WD800JD 2 x 80GB SATA2 drives
Array HDDs: WD7500AAKS 12 x 750GB SATA2 drives

Construction










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