Re: low-MHz server [OT]
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 07:16:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/04/08 22:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > The problem is real. There is no placebo effect to worry about.
> >
> > Currently, Athlon64 box is as far from my wife as possible (70 feet).
> > Based on our experience of other high-MHz or GHz devices, she would have
> > to be at least 250 - 500 feet away. To avoid this problem, we have to
>
> If you live in an urban or suburban area, you *probably live less
> than 75m from your neighbors and their high-MHz PC, and *definitely*
> 150m from them.
Well, we're in farm country, The houses are 70' from the edge of the
road. Our nearest neighbour is across the street: 70' + 70' + 40' =
170' to their front door plus however far to their microwave and PC. It
is a factor over which I have little controll. I do have control over
my own server.
>
> Besides, EM radiation drops in intensity with the square of the
> distance.
>
> How does she walk across the street, under the power-lines?
>
With a head ache, of course.
> Or stand it when the neighbor turns on the microwave oven?
>
:)
> Are you stocking up on incandescent bulbs? They'll be going away
> "soon".
>
It will be a few years.
> [big snippage]
> >
> > -----
> >
> > Boxes and their limiting specs which I have looked into (in no
> > particular order).
> >
> > AlphaServer 2100 min 250 Mhz
>
> God those are ancient... We had those back in the mid-1990s.
>
I write this sitting at a Digital VT 520.
Right. Its ancient, mid-1990's technology for which I am looking. One
that will take the memory and drives to handle today's software and
data-set size. Unfortunatly, that was during the shift from propriatary
busses to standardization on PCI. For example, by the time IBM RS/6000
PPC boxes used PCI, they were just over 200 MHz. They were nice looking
boxes, able to keep three PCI busses busy: two full scsi busses feeding
two gigabit networks while running around 300 MHz with 4 PPCs. They
still command a high price. I've never heard of anyone having one die
on them.
Ron, what other ancient hardware do you remember that may be suitable.
I can browse eBay, search eg: "166 MHz -GHz" for each MHz about which I
am aware, but I can't do that for the wider Google-land. Are there big
server boxes that I am overlooking?
I'm also going to look into scsi drive holders in case I end up with a
server with few bays.
Thanks Ron,
Doug.
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