I mentioned in another thread that I have my own enterprise server hosted in a local data center. Right now, the server has 128GB of DDR3 ECC RAM, 2x Intel Xeon E5-2640 CPUs, 2x 10TB HGST drives, 2x 8TB HGST drives and one 700W power supply. The total cost of this hardware was around 1300β¬ when I initially bought the used, decommissioned parts on Ebay. Today I decided to make a beefy upgrade to my server for another 1200β¬ or so. I will be replacing the CPUs with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2697v2 CPUs, add 8 more drive slots for a total maximum storage capacity of 120TB, a RAID card for ease of drive management and two redundant 700W power supplies for high availability.
You can see on the sites below that the CPU upgrade will drastically improve the performance of the server. It will go from having two 6 core/12 thread CPUs to having two 12 core/24 thread CPUs for a total of 48 threads. That's some insane parallel processing power right there. At some point, I also want to upgrade the RAM from 128GB to 512GB of DDR3 ECC RAM just for the fun of it.
Sorry if I'm boring you guys with the technical details, but I just had to share my excitement with somebody. :D
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