Hi,
I have biuld many computers before but I'm now building my first scsi rackmount server. Could you tell me if I missed anything ? Here is what I ordered:

2u rackmount case with 300W power supply and 3 8mm fans
1 PCI riser card (3 PCI slots)
1 MSI K7T Turbo2 motherboard
2 x 512mb SDRAM PC133
1 AMD AthlonXP 2100+ CPU RETAIL (with the cpu fan)
1 cdrom
1 floppy
1 Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller (40MB/sec)
1 IBM DGHS-09Y 9gb SCSI 7200rpm 80pin HD
1 SCSI ribbon (3 connectors) with an active terminator at the end
I already have an old Cirrus Logic 1mb PCI video card and a couple of PCI network cards.

I as told that a normal cpu fan would fit in a 2u case. Is it true or do I have to buy a low-profile cpu fan ? If so, wich low-profile cpu fan would you recommend ?

This is to host some game servers. I have opted for an older SCSI drive instead of a 30gb IDE drive to reduce cpu load when loading maps (I've heard scsi doesn't require as much cpu power as IDE). Is this a good choice ?

Thank you.

Regular fans work in 2U's. 2U is 3.50" tall. I recently made an AMD 1800XP and I use the standard cpu fan / heatsink and it works just dandy.

I believe the rules so no advertising of your services in forums where it isn't expressly allowed. But given that you are new here, you may just want to edit out the PS part. (the edit button is in the lower right) ;)

not to sound like a dunce.

Rackmout servers?? if they are only 2U high - how do you guys fit a SCSI Adapter PCI card in there - wont it try stick out the top?

How do you fit anything in there? or do you use laptop gear?

No I'm not new. Just a new name. Advertising is allowed anywhere needed. Any thread needing services is "Advertising" :).

As to the next post : There is a PCI Riser card. Which means you invert the pci cards to horizontal instead of vertical.

Originally posted by Rackmounts
Advertising is allowed anywhere needed.


If you believe that then must must not have spent much time around here.

He advertised needing help. I told him where to get it.

Yes that is true. The only problem is that in this particular forum you cannot suggest yourself as the source of that help.

I edited.

Rackmounts,

I wasn't trying to get in a p|ss|ng contest with you I was just trying to keep you from getting a warning by the Mods.

Good luck with you business ventures.

BM

I know. They must of changed the rules recently. I know that before you could advertise where needed, but now its restricted. I guess too many people were complaining about their competitors.

Well, there's just so many of us one here and I guess those who administrate this forum would like to keep it from becoming "WHT -The advertising place."

I mean it has its good points as well as bad.

By the way, Happy Thanksgiving.

Yeah, thats true.

I just thought of this.... everytime you post something, your signature has an advertisement in it. Basically everyone else does the same thing :)

To keep the thread on topic :)

Do anyone of you sees some things that can't work together in this system ? I'm mostly interrested in the scsi part as I've never used scsi before.

I only see one problem. The 9gb hdd. Why not go with a Seagate 36gb @ 15Krpm? I think that would be a better choice than IBM.

Because there it's something like 150$ more expensive and I would need an Ultra160 scsi card wich would cost me 100$ more :D

I paid 15$ on ebay for the drive and 25$ for the scsi drive.

The scsi card supports 40mb/sec and the scsi hard drive is 7200rpm. It's not the fastest but I tought it would provide around the same performance as a 7200rpm IDE hard drive but would put less load on the cpu.

When a game server loads a map, the cpu usage goes up quite a bit and since I was told scsi drives uses less cpu power than IDE drive, I tought it would reduce this effect.

What do you think ? Is it a good choice ?

Without considering disk space, wich one would you pick between a 7200 rpm scsi drive and a 7200 IDE drive ?

I would choose IDE, only because IDE's are more stable. SCSI's have a tendency to cease a lot. Im not to totally sure about the speeds of the two since they are both 7200ms. If you went with a maxtor 20gb or 40, or heck...all Maxtor IDE drives they have the fastest seek time of any IDE. Ebay parts arent always the best bet either. You never ever know what youre going to end up with when the package is delivered. Who knows, someone could of sent you a chicken... I would always buy parts from a local supplier or a reputable computer store. If you buy out of state, you dont pay sales tax :)

We'll see. Anuway, for 15$, I don't have anything to loose. Except de case and the scsi, I bought the server from my local supplier but they didn't have 9gb 7200 scsi drives since it's too old and they only have 1 model of 2u rackmount case wich is the Antec one and they sell it for 370$ canadian wich is round 250$ USD.

If someone knows an URL wich a banchmark including 7200rpm scso drive, please share it with me :D