Castor and Pollux (new VM hosts)

Each have identical hardware consisting of:

ABIT AN52 AM2 NVIDIA nForce 520 MCP ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor

OCZ Gold 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - x 2 = 8GB

Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - x 2 in raid1 - TODO: this will be doubled and striped

Intel EXPI9300PT 10/100/1000Mbps PCI-Express - x 2

Draco (new storage host)

MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital AM2 AMD 690G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor

G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Paired with 2GB existing 4GB total

Note: Due to hardware problems motherboard, processor, and memory have been swapped for my desktop machine - dual core intel e6600 and 4GB PC2 6400

HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCI Express SATA II Controller Card - only pcie1x card they had; we'll see
Update: Got two of these now and also a RocketRaid 2310 8 port...they're working pretty well.

Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - x 3 +1 existing 2TB total in raid5 = 1.5TB
Update: Added to this with 3 x 750GB WEDI caviars in raid5 - total now 3TB - TODO: two more pairs of 3 to add - prolly wait for TB disks to be reasonable $$-wise

Athena Power BP-SATA3051B 3 x 5.25" Bays to 5 x 3.5" HD (SATA) Back Plane
Update: 2 more of these now for 3 total = 15 drive bays

RAIDMAX AURORA RX-580F ATX12V 580Watts Power Supply

Io (oh man this'll be fun :D)

Open Box: ASUS Eee PC 4G Galaxy Black Intel processor 7" Wide VGA 512MB 4GB Integrated Graphics Eee PC

G.SKILL 2GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Notebook Memory

Patriot 4GB Secure Digital High-Capacity(SDHC) Flash Card - x 2; OS goes here (swap SD card for different distro! :D) and data goes on the SSD inside

Logitech VX Nano Black 6 Buttons Tilt Wheel USB 2.4 GHz Wireless Laser Mouse for Notebooks

Misc

powercom IMD-1025U 1025 VA 615 watts UPS

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