AAPEN Part. 3

Denne gangen er det lagring og komponenter til primaernoden som staar for tur.

The drive cage.
IMGA0975

Samsung TruDirect DVD writer.
IMGA0976

Quad 2.5″ SATA drive backplane.
IMGA0977

2x PQI 64GB SandForce powered SSD’s, one 32GB A-RAM SSD, and one Seagate 320GB XT hybrid drive..
The PQI’s and A-RAM are all MLC’s, not to mention the PQI’s come with 64MB dram cache. The XT has a 4GB SLC read cache, and a nifty 32MB dram cache. This should make for some interesting comparisons.
IMGA0978

The A-RAM getting comfy with the drive bay.
IMGA0982

The MLC SSD trifecta.
IMGA0983

Each drives sits happily in its respective cage.
IMGA0984

The 2nd drive cage will soon be filled with 7.2K rpm 500GB drives to be used for general purpose storage.
IMGA0986

The 1040SAS Quartet Mobile Backplane, and its assorted cables..
IMGA0988

Backplanes and DVD writer mounted.. FDD is missing for now.. damn, where did that black floppy drive go?
IMGA0991

A rather flashy photograph of how the drive bay looks..
IMGA0993

A nice pic of the rear end of the cage, too bad my camera handles flash so poorly.
IMGA0997

The ever so classic modular bay promotional picture!
IMGA0999

The AMD X6 1055T six-core processor.
IMGA0001

16 Gigabytes of DDR3 1333MHz memory, in a 4x4GB configuration.
IMGA0004

CUDA Accelerator

The EVGA GTS450 with 1GB of memory selected for this build.
IMGA0007

EVGA GTS450, the GF106 should clock in at about 600 gigaflops.
IMGA0009