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Server state between January 2004 and October 2007

Now things start to get interesting. A server motherboard, two CPUs and an obscenely expensive server chassis. This is starting to look like a server. And sound like one too... oooops!
Dual Pentium III server
Dual Pentium III
on a Chenbro SR107 case

General specs

CPU
Dual Intel Coppermine 866 MHz Pentium III processors
Memory
512 Mb ECC 133 SDRAM DIMM
Storage
2 * 200GB Maxtor IDE SATA drives
2 * 80Gb Samsung IDE ATA drives
Internet uplink
aDSL connection. 400 kbit/s maximum upload bandwidth

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Detailed specs

Case
Chenbro SR107 Server/Workstation case.
Supports Fullsize Extended ATX motherboards, redundant power supplies, 8 hot-swap hard drives, 3 general purpose 5.25" drive bays and one floppy drive slot. Features intrusion alarm and 3 extremely noisy 120mm Delta fans. This case was actually the most expensive part of my server, but it is worth every cent.
Power Supply
Chieftec HPC 420W (HPC-420-302DF)
Motherboard
Asus CUR-DLS
  • Two socket 370 officially supporting up to 1 GHz pentium III processors
    (unofficially supporting up to 1.4 GHz pentium III processors)
  • Up to 2Gb of ECC registered RAM
CPU
Two Socket 370 Intel Coppermine 866 MHz Pentium III processors
FSB = 133 MHz
Memory
1 133 MHz ECC-SDRAM 512 Mb DIMM
IDE Controllers
onboard ServerWorks OSB4 dual channel ATA33 IDE controller
  • 32x ATA cdrom attached
PCI Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 (HPT372A IDE SATA Raid controller card)
  • 2 200GB Maxtor hard drives attached
PCI Promise Ultra133 (20269 IDE ATA controller card)
  • 2 80GB Samsung hard drives attached
onboard SCSI controller: LSI/Symbios 53c896
  • nothing attached
Hard Drives
2 * 200 GB SATA150 Maxtor 6B200M0 attached
2 * 80 GB ATA133 Samsung SP0802N attached
Operating System
Gentoo Linux 2.6
Gentoo is a great linux distribution for servers. The excellent port of the FreeBSD "ports collection" system featured in Gentoo, makes package and dependency management one of the most flexible linux distros ever for server environments. Since every software package is installed from the sources (including of course its dependencies), full system upgrades don't exist, and that's a Good Thing(TM).
Network
onboard Intel 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] 10/100 Mbps ethernet card for uplink network connection
3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] ethernet card for Internal LAN
3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] ethernet card for Wireless LAN
User interface
Usually, none. There is a hand-made null modem attached so I can use my desktop PC to access a serial console, which is VERY useful, but most of the time the server just sits there quiet with no direct user interaction.