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By: Sean McDonough

Sean McDonough — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:13:07 +0000

Thanks Stefan! You have an incredibly cool looking setup yourself — very impressive. With 125TBs of storage, it’s not hard to understand why drive failure would be your number one source of problems :-)

I’ve had a few drives go out over the years. To tell you the truth, I’m surprised I haven’t experienced more failures. I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, though.

I appreciate your feedback!

By: Stefan Didak

Stefan Didak — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:25:12 +0000

Love it! It’s nice to see someone also *not* going the route of a rackmounted configuration and setup. Interesting that loss of powersupplies is the top failure. In my experience it’s disk failures in the RAID arrays. Only had two power supplies blow up (yes, with a loud bang) on me.

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By: Sean McDonough

Sean McDonough — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:11:10 +0000

David, Paul: thanks for your comments!

One of the Hyper-V VMs I have running, David, is a TFS server for source control; the other half of my “professional life” is spent doing development, and Hyper-V has made it easy to try things out I might not otherwise be inclined to spend time on. Good luck with the playground you’re envisioning!

Paul, I’m glad to hear that the post might have given you some “ammo.” I was speaking with someone else about that very topic this weekend, and he indicated that he might drag his wife to the screen and say, “See, Honey — it could *definitely* be much worse than what I’ve got” :-)

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:55:01 +0000

Thanks for posting this! I really enjoyed reading it and it’s great to finally get to see your datacenter. In fact, I was even able to convince my wife to read it. I think it gave her an even greater appreciation for why people who are passionate about their profession and craft would set up such elaborate home datacenters; that’s priceless. Thanks again!

By: David Brown

David Brown — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:58:07 +0000

This is great stuff! Configuring servers has always been fun to me and I’m itching to get a little Hyper-V playground going, just to stay current. A self-hosted source control and build server would be awesome, as well. Perhaps one of these days. :)

Good luck with your upgrades!

By: Sean McDonough

Sean McDonough — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:02:19 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to comment, Brian! The virtualization work will probably be a little later this year (I’m thinking 2nd half), but the new TMG server is something I hope to start tonight. The hardware arrived a couple of days ago, but SPS Indy kept me relatively busy until now. I hope it’s fun, but I’m confident it’ll be instructional if nothing else!

By: Brian Jackett

Brian Jackett — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:39:47 +0000

Thanks for giving the rest of the world a peek into your “basement datacenter” setup. Very interesting to see the extent, and a little history, some of us computer geeks go to get real hands on experience with products and processes. I am humbled and jealous all at once. Good luck with the virtualization and server reduction efforts.