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Server Porn, Hardware Porn, SSD Porn, or CPU Porn? Provided for your entertainment...
Happy Friday! Fresh inbound shipment received a few minutes ago, awaiting to be built and prepared for that production life.
Server Porn, Hardware Porn, SSD Porn, CPU Porn - whatever you want to call it, some of us geeks here believe this is better than regular porn.
A mix of brand new E5-2620v3 processors & Intel S3710 Enterprise SSD's.
Motherboards waiting to be placed in their natural habitat
Adaptec RAID controllers
16GB DIMM's and a hint of 1TB Seagate Constellation ES.3 Enterprise HDD's
Oh, yeah - Intel SSD's designed for datacenter environments! 800GB Intel S3710 Enterprise SSD. S3710's, because our clients know the meaning of quality
Another view of the E5-2620v3's
We're just getting started, our techs have a lot more unboxing and server building to do!
Comments
@Quadranet_Adam SEXY!!!!
Gosh Damn
Will you be selling these for $7? Sign me up!
@hostnoob You sir are the winner for post of the day!
you should probably blackout those serial numbers
@sonontse yes, they contain the secret code to the core matrix, too late now
So much goodness!
Would you care to donate some of that hardware to the foundation of me?
Watch your super fast CPUs burrrrrrn using my awesome Windows Paint skills:
@QuadraNet_Adam
Samsung SSDs would have been cheaper.
Less reliable too.
Quadranet are all about performance and the most reliable gear they can get... They don't scrimp on hardware. At all.
Each or the whole lot?
Wow! Brand new hardware.
Not at all.
If they think that they offer better quality, fine.
https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/ Would never use Samsung SSDs in a productive environment.
Other sources don't really say the same:
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/934-7/ssd.html
I'm pretty sure they know .
very good marketing / advertsing skills! thumbsup @QuadraNet_Adam
We've deployed thousands of Samsung ssds and thousands of Intel ssds. The failure rates are very low for both brands.
Its not so much the failure rate between the ssds, its the consistent performance. Last time I checked, intel had the advantage.
Oh... that's just too much for me... gotta go to the lavatory... love the pics hehe
Thanks everyone! I should have more pics for you guys to drool over next week (hint: a crazy amount of DDR4 RAM!)
Yes sir, 100% brand new, purchased outright!
Agreed, however the overall quality would not be on par with the Intel S3710's enterprise SSD's, we are not talking about regular Intel SSD's here, these are the top of the line DC edition SSD's that are designed for enterprise/server environments. Literally one of the best SSD's that money can buy.
FWIW those 800GB Intel S3710's retail at over $1389 a pop, which is more than double to what Samsung's cost for their 1TB. It costs that much more for a reason, pure quality. And people who appreciate quality and care about their mission-critical servers buy them, otherwise Intel wouldn't continue to develop the edition.
Really @boernd? I have one in my computer right now (a Samsung SSD, two 1TB Seagate drives, and a ADATA SSD).
In my opinion (imo), I give a salute to Samsung for the amazing SSD. On the side note, what I don't give one to is to their stupid Galaxy S, S2, S2X, S3 LTE, and S4 (the worst phones I have ever purchased, ever. I liked my ol' reliable [flippy phone]).
Those seagates made me sick. Other than that, looking good!
These are enterprise Seagate edition drives designed for 24x7 server environments - this is not your average Seagate drive used in desktop computers We've had a very good experience with the ES.3's and use them almost exclusively for our SATA drives. All of our customers (including many of the fellow providers on here who are using our dedicated servers to provide VPS to their customers) have been pleased with the performance and reliability with them as well. I haven't seen a single complaint.
Constellation ES.3 enterprise drives are not to be associated with the negative stigma associated with the cheap Barracuda's - so don't let that fool ya
ES.3's have bad ass performance and reliability - best SATA drive around right now, by far. WD, and HGST have nothing to match them. That's the reason I introduced them and QN has continued using them.
i like re4 more than es3 but it is my personal opinion.
Explain why? RE4 is old even, WD has a replacement for it already!
RE4 reliability not as good as ES.3, RE4 = 64MB Cache, ES.3 = 128MB Cache
You just like the cheapness and slower performance better or what? Ford Mustang vs Ferrari 458?
@ItsChrisG Well, never not a single one died with me. That is why i like them. However you are right, ES.3 is faster. I will always pick ferrari, but also i would pick re4 again if i can. Actually ordered 8 new ones 3 weeks ago for really good price. http://www.ebay.com/itm/261499951289?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Idk, i just love them.