Right so been working hard going 4 new builds some of them with a stuff lying around.

The father now has:
Asus p5wdg2 ws (from old machine)
E8200
3gb ram
250 Seagate sataii
ati x300 graphics

My new desktop MATX
Sugo case
ATI HD 4850
E8200
4gb OCZ ram (it was cheap!)
Couple of 200gb hds in raid
650watt corsair PSU
Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R iG33




Only down side is there is very little clearance on the cooler!



Really happy with this works flawlessly so far was a little worried about the lack of cooling in the sugo but it seams to be ok when I played grid for 4 hours straight last night! Very quick and think it feels a little quicker than when I was using the quad for desktop work.

My new development platform/server MATX:
Q6600
5gb ram (2x2gb sticks and 1x1gb stick)
Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R iG33
Hds - 3x750gb samsungs, 500gb samsung, 300gb and 200gb maxtor





You can never have enough networking! Most of these go out to a switch so then I can play with Vlan routing and other fun/boring stuff!






Aim was to be able to run 3 or 4 virtual machines and have all my storage in a small space and it seams to have worked out quite well. Its not the prettest of things!

Home Server:
Old Athlon 64 x2 2.2ghz
2.5gb of old ddr ram
Every hard drive I have over 80gb and left over





Now this is why I really love windows home server. The automated backup stuff if great and when combined with the auto drive management stuff you don't have to worry about hard drives. It will take anything and everything and squish it into a software raid and manage it with no user input so I took all my odds and ends ide/small sata drives and whacked them in there. The end result is 1.33tb of storage with data redundancy. I also now have complete snapshot backups of all the house and work machine done automatically every day. Along with media sharing on the music shares so we have only one music library for the house now. Its just a great product for what I needed... and that was a good, simple and easy to manage backup system. Its all well and good copying files automatically but drive snapshots make recovering from disaster so much easier!

awesome setup mupet


how much did that all cost?

£900ish thats for the two gigabyte mobo's, 8gb ram, 250gb seagate drive, two e8200's, Vista business, Windows home server, PSU's, sugo case, new mouse, new keyboard and presentation pointery thing. I hate spending money on software it hurts parting with £160 for a couple of cd's! But its for dads business so it has to be legal.

The Rest of the stuff I already had. It sounds a lot but I got a lot out of it.

Yeh great work!


and to be honest....£900 for all that isnt that much! especially with all the Software

Nice mupet. How's the 4800 working for you?

Home Server sounds sweet. I was hoping to get something like that running, I really should have kept my old 80G hdd's. Only problem is that 2 of my 3 PC's are laptops, so not on the network 24/7.

Oooh that reminds me of another cool thing. I was looking throught some documentation about WHS backups and it won't initiate a backup on a laptop unless its connected to charged, thought that was a nice tough.

One of the machines is a laptop and you can just right click the WHS icon in the tray and click start backup when you have it on. ie. Although its not automated you can initiate them very easily through the WHS connector on the client.