First Terabyte Fileserver

My first attempt at building a fileserver ended up way below a terabyte. Now given away to a hapless soul it consisted of a Duron-based mobo, four Maxtor 200 GB disks and an LSI MegaRAID four-port RAID controller. The OS was Fedora Core 2, which was very much en vogue back in 2005.

The capacity was later upgraded to a whopping 2.2 TB by replacing the Maxtors by 750 gig Seagates. The main problem with the server was that write speed was glacial due to the PCI-X interface card being slotted into a PCI slot. The Duron simply couldn't cope with the load imposed by the RAID adapter. Reading would max out the 100 Mbit ethernet interface.

The hardware was built into a 4U server case with metric thread all around. Very confusing if you're expecting UNC (or whatever is used in the computer industry).

dscf2781	dscf2788	dscf2790	dscf2791
dscf2795	dscf2798	dscf2800	dscf2802
dscf2804	dscf2808	dscf2811	dscf2818

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