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| System Name | WAZAAM! |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 3900x |
| Motherboard | ASRock Fatal1ty X370 Pro Gaming |
| Cooling | Kraken x62 |
| Memory | G.Skill 16GB 3200 MHz |
| Video Card(s) | EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC |
| Storage | Micron 9200 Max |
| Display(s) | Samsung 49" 5120x1440 120hz |
| Case | Corsair 600D |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard - Bose Companion 2 Speakers |
| Power Supply | CORSAIR Professional Series HX850 |
| Keyboard | Corsair K95 RGB |
| Software | Windows 10 Pro |
*disclaimer*
It'll be a while before I get this complete, bear with me
*disclaimer*
Update (4/21/2010)
It bit the dust
Due to finances, I still hadn't actually upgraded the server (and really, it *was* working well enough).
But yesterday I try to pull up the show listing on the xbox and it won't connect. I try to SSH into the box but nothing. So I hook up ye olde monitor and see a Kernel Panic message. The system had thrown up a hardware fault.
I reboot and we're good for another 12 hours then same thing. Kernel Panic.
I could check the processor and memory (I've actually got a spare s939 proc and DDR memory sitting around), but this is as good an excuse as any.
Here's what I've ordered:
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131609
Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103688
Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231185
Boot Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136074
What's next?
Software wise, I'm switching from Gentoo (pain in the a**) to Ubuntu. It'll make it easier to manage packages and such as well as being more current (support for Gentoo is somewhat lacking; especially when compared to the Ubuntu community)
Original Post
I'd recently (July '08) upgraded my main system to the point that I had all the parts to set up a second computer. So I decided to get some more hard drives and turn it in to a file server:
The System
Motherboard: ASUS A8N5X (nForce chipset, s939)
Processor: AMD Athlon64 3200+ (Venice core @ 2.0 GHz)
Memory: 2x512MB Generic ECC
Video Card: ATI x1300 Pro
PSU: 430Watt Thermaltake
Optical: Something I had lying around
OS Hard drive: 15GB IBM
Data HDDs: 4x640GB Western Digital AAKS in RAID5
The Software
The computer is running Gentoo Linux. I picked it mostly to prove to myself that I could do it. If I were doing it all over again, I'd do Ubuntu for ease of install.
The RAID is software RAID. Though for this configuration, md gives performance that is close to what a RAID controller card would provide while being *much* cheaper.
Setting up file sharing for windows and mac is a piece of cake. Samba takes care of everything.
Bittorrent Downloading
This one took me a little while to figure out, but I finally found an option called torrentflux-b4rt. The system only requires the standard LAMP setup (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Then you extract the files to the right place, go to the webpage it generates, and follow the prompts for setup.
What's great with this setup is that I don't need to leave my main computer on to download torrents as I had in the past. If you do the port forwarding on your router, you can access the page from any computer connected to the net.
When I visit my parents, I can use their computer to search Pirate Bay, download the .torrent file there, and upload it to my server at home to start the download.
It's very slick.
Media Streaming
Currently, I've got this server sitting next to my desktop, which is connected to the TV. For movie viewing, I play movies on the desktop from the server using a DVI => HDMI cable.
The problem: the desktop will soon be moving into a different room, and I need a way to watch movies from the server on the TV.
Solution: An xbox 360 (and I've pretty much got the wife convinced this is a good idea).
I can set up a program (Twonky Media Server) which will allow the xbox 360 to stream any media file from the file server directly to the TV (you'd normally need the desktop running Windows Media Player while streaming from a NAS).
The reviews I've seen show that Twonky works extremely well, though I'm open to other solutions.
To Do:
I've still got a few things I want to do with this server.
It'll be a while before I get this complete, bear with me
*disclaimer*
Update (4/21/2010)
It bit the dust
Due to finances, I still hadn't actually upgraded the server (and really, it *was* working well enough).
But yesterday I try to pull up the show listing on the xbox and it won't connect. I try to SSH into the box but nothing. So I hook up ye olde monitor and see a Kernel Panic message. The system had thrown up a hardware fault.
I reboot and we're good for another 12 hours then same thing. Kernel Panic.
I could check the processor and memory (I've actually got a spare s939 proc and DDR memory sitting around), but this is as good an excuse as any.
Here's what I've ordered:
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131609
Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103688
Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231185
Boot Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136074
What's next?
Software wise, I'm switching from Gentoo (pain in the a**) to Ubuntu. It'll make it easier to manage packages and such as well as being more current (support for Gentoo is somewhat lacking; especially when compared to the Ubuntu community)
Original Post
I'd recently (July '08) upgraded my main system to the point that I had all the parts to set up a second computer. So I decided to get some more hard drives and turn it in to a file server:
The System
Motherboard: ASUS A8N5X (nForce chipset, s939)
Processor: AMD Athlon64 3200+ (Venice core @ 2.0 GHz)
Memory: 2x512MB Generic ECC
Video Card: ATI x1300 Pro
PSU: 430Watt Thermaltake
Optical: Something I had lying around
OS Hard drive: 15GB IBM
Data HDDs: 4x640GB Western Digital AAKS in RAID5
The Software
The computer is running Gentoo Linux. I picked it mostly to prove to myself that I could do it. If I were doing it all over again, I'd do Ubuntu for ease of install.
The RAID is software RAID. Though for this configuration, md gives performance that is close to what a RAID controller card would provide while being *much* cheaper.
Setting up file sharing for windows and mac is a piece of cake. Samba takes care of everything.
Bittorrent Downloading
This one took me a little while to figure out, but I finally found an option called torrentflux-b4rt. The system only requires the standard LAMP setup (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Then you extract the files to the right place, go to the webpage it generates, and follow the prompts for setup.
What's great with this setup is that I don't need to leave my main computer on to download torrents as I had in the past. If you do the port forwarding on your router, you can access the page from any computer connected to the net.
When I visit my parents, I can use their computer to search Pirate Bay, download the .torrent file there, and upload it to my server at home to start the download.
It's very slick.
Media Streaming
Currently, I've got this server sitting next to my desktop, which is connected to the TV. For movie viewing, I play movies on the desktop from the server using a DVI => HDMI cable.
The problem: the desktop will soon be moving into a different room, and I need a way to watch movies from the server on the TV.
Solution: An xbox 360 (and I've pretty much got the wife convinced this is a good idea).
I can set up a program (Twonky Media Server) which will allow the xbox 360 to stream any media file from the file server directly to the TV (you'd normally need the desktop running Windows Media Player while streaming from a NAS).
The reviews I've seen show that Twonky works extremely well, though I'm open to other solutions.
To Do:
I've still got a few things I want to do with this server.
- Get a Kill-A-Watt to see how much power is used.
- Get two more 512MB ECC DDR memory sticks
- Replace 640GB drives with something larger (I'm hoping these will last me until the 2TB drives are around $100)
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