{"id":18,"date":"2007-07-13T17:31:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T07:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2021-04-11T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T03:32:38","slug":"my-ideal-home-workstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/my-ideal-home-workstation\/","title":{"rendered":"my ideal home workstation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/macprolarge01_20060807.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"macprolarge01_20060807.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/macprolarge01_20060807.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"macprolarge01_20060807.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/rr2322_card_big.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"rr2322_card_big.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/rr2322_card_big.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"rr2322_card_big.jpg\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/e8_back_g.gif\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"e8_back_g.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/e8_back_g.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"e8_back_g.gif\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/e8_frontopen_g.gif\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"e8_frontopen_g.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/e8_frontopen_g.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"e8_frontopen_g.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been pondering what I&#8217;d set up at home if I was going to go all out but keep the cost within realistic limits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mac Pro dual quad core Xeon, lots of RAM<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highpoint-tech.com\/USA\/rr2322.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Highpoint RocketRAID 2322<\/a><\/strong> PCI-Express x4 SATA II RAID Controller w\/ RAID 5 and External Infiniband Support or maybe a pair of them.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enhance-tech.com\/products\/desktop\/E8_Series.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enhance E8-ML<\/a><\/strong> Multi-Lane 8-bay SATA Enclosure (with Two Mini-SAS to Infiniband 4-Channel MultiLane Cables)<\/li>\n<li>Eight 750GB SATA-II HDDs or whatever&#8217;s biggest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UPDATE (11-04-2021): it&#8217;s now ~15years later. I&#8217;ve just upgraded the home lab to 10GE and arrays of 12 and 14TB disks. NVMe SSDs are up at 2 and 4TB in size, with speeds and latencies that weren&#8217;t even dreamed of not long ago. Latest lab server is an AMD 8core\/16thread cpu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pondering what I&#8217;d set up at home if I was going to go all out but keep the cost within realistic limits. Mac Pro dual quad core Xeon, lots of RAM Highpoint RocketRAID 2322 PCI-Express x4 SATA II RAID Controller w\/ RAID 5 and External Infiniband Support or maybe a pair of them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-mac-osx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}