As a geek there is only one thing I love as much as shiny gadgets - pictures of shiny gadgets I have yet to acquire! It should come as no surprise that Jeff and Scott’s recent posts about building the Ultimate Developer Rig have triggered a fair amount of geek envy among the community.
Want it, want it, gotta' have it!
In attempt to curb my desires to go out and build a new rig, or buy in the case of the MBP I’ve lusting for, I’ve decided to post a little geek pr0n of my own. Be warned, these are not pictures of the latest and greatest hardware as in the case of the Hanselman’s new box. Rather, I thought I’d show off my new re-purposed home network hardware.
The back story
To set the stage a little, for the past year or so I’ve been working from home as a member of the VelocIT team. Recently my girlfriend and I bought our first home and had the chance to do some renovations in the process. As part of the first major renovation project I ran brand new Cat5e cabling a couple rooms, including my new home office.
I also have an OK home server - which is really my old dev box, reborn.
- Pentium IV w/HT @ 1.5GHz
- 1.5GB Rambus RAM
- 2 x 120GB PATA disks in a RAID0 configuration (software RAID)
- 2 x 250GB SATAII disks in a RAID1 configuration (hardware RAID)
- 1 x 500GB SATAII external disk (backup disk for 500GB RAID array above)
- 1 x Gigabit NIC
This bad boy hosts all of our multimedia (music, movies, pictures, etc...), a (mapped) home drive for each user, VM image library, repository for software installation media, FTP server, web server, database server, and a couple of other small items.
And yes, I realize it is not optimal to host the web and SQL server on the same box, especially along side all of that other stuff... but it’s a home server that lives in my basement, not in a data center.
Show me some skin!
Ok, enough with the pillow talk... here are the goods!
If you’re looking for the hi-res images to use as bedtime reading materials, you can snag them from my Flickr feed. Also check out the new Developer Rigs Flickr group for pictures of other geek rigs.
Flaunt it if you got it
Now don’t be shy - share some pictures of your rig(s) so we can get our fix! You can provide a link in a comment here, or add them to the Developer Rigs group mentioned above.