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Half Machine

August 12, 2000

This new file server has a half TB of disk, a half GB of memory, and a half GHz of processor.

Half computer ingredients and sources

Sky-Tech Computers
One Pentium III 667 MHz Processor with 133 MHz bus
(clocked down to 500 Mhz i swear!)
$259
Two 256 MB 133 MHz bus SDRAM Memory Chips $712
1 Floppy Disk Drive $15.95
1 50X CD-Rom Drive $49.95
1 3C905B Ethernet Card $57.95
1 SiS6326 8Mb AGP Graphics Card $32.00
1 Full Tower Super Case w/ 300W ATX Power Supply
(6 - 5 1/4 bays, 6 - 3 1/2 bays)
$66
1 ASUS P3V133 PC133 Motherboard $107
PC Power & Cooling
1 425W Turbo Cool ATX Power Supply (replaced 300W) $199
3 Case fans for cooling. $28.80
Ebiz Enterprises
1 3Ware 3W5800 Raid Controller Card $400
Computers, Peripherals, and Upgrades, Ltd.
1 Seagate 10 Gb Hard Drive (boot drive) $129
5 Y-Splitters for Power $19.95
MacWarehouse
8 Maxtor 60 Gb Hard Drives $2295.55
MicroWarehouse
5 Hard Drive Mounting Kits $55.40
8 Ribbon Cables $46.00
Total $4473.55

Each of the big file systems is a two-disk mirrored array.

[root@half /]# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              9748320    773952   8479168   8% /
/dev/hda1                23302      2442     19657  11% /boot
/dev/sda1             59084932        20  56083572   0% /sda
/dev/sdb1             59084932        20  56083572   0% /sdb
/dev/sdc1             59084932        20  56083572   0% /sdc
/dev/sdd1             59084932        20  56083572   0% /sdd

April 6, 2005

About half the disks have died and we have gutted the machine for parts.

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