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What kind of home network would you clowns build with a blank check? Would you have just one big machine or a server farm? X86 or some other architecture? What OS? How much storage would you have and in what medium? What would you do with it?
I think I'd go with something big iron like POWER or SPARC with as many tape drives as I could fit on a bookshelf. Cat 6 everywhere. Smaller left-over VIA parts running little thin clients in every room with POE running power and network to them.
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A large stack of the best Intel Xeons money could by. Each running a custom water cooling loop and running GNU/Linux. No compromises
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>>832813
Samefag here
Also an array of multiple Blu Ray drives, each one with a blank M-Disc inside, every one connected to the dedicated archive server, where the entire server is routinely backes up to the first blank M-Disc once every 3 months (assuming my content is live)
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>>832815
They have Blu ray robots that go up into the petabyte range.
▶ No.832822>>832827 >>833246
I would love to get something big and old.. Like a vax or larger IBM POWER machine. Only thing really stopping me from doing so would be the electricity costs. The mainframe kid's IBM uses 30amps at 220volts and thats not even with a load on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyiHsfJLEI
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>>832822
My dad's friend had a VAX in his den as decoration. There's no point in plugging it in when the computer in your smart TV is faster.
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>>832827
>what is security and privacy
There's a point. You just don't see it or care possibly
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>>832827
>there is no point in driving a classic car when a modern Honda Accord out performs it in every way
▶ No.832836
I'd put up a rack running OpenStack and run things similar to having a local AWS.
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>>832830
With a VAX? Nigga you went full retard. I honestly don't think there is anything wrong with Core2 machines security wise. If you want obscurity, PowerMac G4's are relatively cheap compared to SPARC and MIPS based workstations.
>>832833
>>832834
You can post this shit all day, but you and I both know you will never take the plunge. It is 100% full on retarded to have a mainframe in your domicile.
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>>832841
>you will never take the plunge
No shit. I can't afford the electricity.
I suggest you read the OP.
>What kind of home network would you clowns build with a blank check?
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>>832842
Point taken, but I still wouldn't put a mainframe in my home for networking. 40GbE for every computer and a Mellanox Infinaband switch would be more useful.
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>>832848
Make that 100GbE NICs. Not sure who I would buy it from.
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With a blank check? There's no way I'm going X86. I'd just finish funding the Talos and virtualize everything.
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>>832879
>considers security
>with blank check
>not using RISC V powered openbsd stations with all open firmware components in a air gapped and anechoic faraday cage with it's own closed loop electrical supply
>not hiring people to transcribe the code of openbsd to be compiled from "safeish" stations in order to avoid cianigger bugs and trojans
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>>832883
>using computers at all
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I think this is worth the investment value. Not sure I;m diggin' the fan, but we'll make do.
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Amiga 3000 with 68060/PPC, and an AmigaOne X1000. That should cover everything, since they can also boot NetBSD or Plan 9.
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I'd like a farm of POWER9 servers, but honestly I'd never use that much power. My current server is 2 quad core xeons and I don't even come close to using it all
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>>832834
where, how and why the fuck did this guy get a fucking IBM mainframe?
>inb4 he bought it
yeah no shit but why?
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>>833200
>where
I think he got it from a university or local company cleaning out shit, but you can also find them for realistic prices at government and bankruptcy sales/auctions.
>how
His father helped him drive and carry it to the family home. Folks from the IBM community and his local IBM sales department helped him set it up.
>why
This might not be the right place for you.
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>>832822
Why not get a new POWER9 system?
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>>833246
Damn that looks comfy
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>>833207
Ever thought about how fucking bring me the verison powers one of those things? You can't just plug it into a wall socket and flip the switch, you'd either fry your mains or blackout your house.
>This might not be the right place for you
And with that spacing, it isn't the right place for you either
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>>833246
>>833275
>having that strain on neck and spine
>comftorable
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>>833279
>Do I fit in, yet?
No.
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>>833282
>implying I'm not not from here because I told you to go back to reddit
I bet you work at starbucks
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>>833200
>>where, how and why the fuck did this guy get a fucking IBM mainframe?
>not knowing about the mainframe kid
You seem new here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk
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>>833088
>settling for chinese embedded Power SoC hand me downs when a workstation motherboard for a new server chip is probably hitting the market soon
If raptor gets their shit together it could be nice.
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>>833287
>If I just keep doubling down, people will totally believe me.
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>>833289
I don't care much, because it has the Boing Ball case, and that's what matters. Machine would just end up being a server or whatever, and I'd always be glued to the A3000. On second thought, maybe I should just go with an A3000UX (their UNIX System V workstation) and an A3000T. Those are some bigass towers like they don't make much anymore, but were kinda popular in early 90's. I could really cram in a ton of upgrades in there! Even a maxed-out PC bridgeboard with various upgrades of its own (with this you can run both the Amiga and PC at the same time).
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>>833335
>amigafag just cares about the boing ball
You could probably find someone to engrave that into any case panel, but at least you're honest. I wish I could find an eATX case with decent fan placement and a 90's look to signal what a huge retrofag I am.
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>>833088
>netbsd
Doesn't even have a fucking partitioner for macppc. Literally almost a dead project. Building gentoo for ppc32 now...
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>>834445
>Doesn't even have a fucking partitioner for macppc.
wut