My Mini Data Center

FromShouri

United States862 Posts

April 08 2013 02:30 GMT

I'll start off by saying this isn't the nicest of setups, but I figured I'd make a simple look in on my "Control Central" part of my home data center. Currently it consists of 7 different machines and 1 Domain. It is very much like the mess seen in the first season of IT Crowd, guess they did stereotype nerds correctly! That said, I'm a bit embarrassed of it so I will show you the cleaner areas. I use TeamViewer to control all the machines. All together I have 3 HTPC's, 2 Media/Game Server, 1 Random Server Box, and 1 Home Surveillance Box. With most of them i went with a "Batman" theme, so my main Media Server is currently named "The Bat Archives" and my other computers have been named accordingly. Because if you're gonna make a data center, why not name it after one of the greatest fictional ones ever.

Head Administrator Desk(mine):
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-23" AOC 1080p LCD Monitor
-Logitech 5.1 Surround Sound Satellite Speakers
-Crappy HP Laptop used as HTPC
-Standard Rubbey OEM Keyboard
-Razer Lachesis
-We Made Fox mouse pad from the TL sale many years ago.
-Android Samsung S 4G, used as my remote control system, has GMote and Teamviewer installed so I can roam the house and still access all my pcs.
-Android Samsung Galaxy SII, my main phone I use away from house, has same apps installed as above so I'm never truly that far away from my babies =D.
-Crappy Windows Phone, because of this I currently just use it as a skype box.

Stupid Tier 1 Lacky Desk(aka my wife):
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-23" AOC 1080p LCD Monitor
-Crappy USB Keyboard
-Crappy USB Mouse
-Crappy Stereo Speakers
-Is Currently Run off a Virtual Machine off my main Media Server pictured below.

The Bat Archives:
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-AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition
-8 Gigs DDR3 1333 ram
-Asus M4A78TE Motherboard
-Radeon 7850 2-Gig
-300 gig 7200 RPM HDD
-1 Terabyte 5400 RPM Data HDD
Not much to say about this puppy other then I'm upgrading to 16gigs ram next month.

Command Central's Main TV:
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-26" Insignia 720p LCD, runs off laptop pictured above on Head Admin's desk. I use the laptop screen currently to look up things in game or check my email during queues.

My Random Servers Box:
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Picked up this baby through a donation from my older brother. It has a dual-core processor(some low speed one) and 1 gig of ram. I am currently running the following servers from it:
-Web Server
-Email Server
-Vent Server
-FTP Server
-Various Game Lan Servers(I only turn these on when we're about to play.)

The hard drive by the lamp is a 2 terabyte external that I have backed up all my files too. I also use it to store the various images I've made for all my machines.

Well that ends the virtual tour. Not pictured was my other Media/HTPC server in my living room that I use to play roms and movies and such on a LG 42" 1080p LCD or my other HTPC in my bedroom. Also not listed is my surveillance machine for obvious security reasons =P.