{"id":1429,"date":"2013-11-13T20:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2014-01-18T19:46:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T17:46:34","slug":"the-making-of-me-chschmid-com-part-2-the-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"The Making of me.chschmid.com, Part 2: The Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Making of me.chschmid.com Part 1: The Problem\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=1421\">I recently blogged<\/a> about why it makes sense to run your own server. Although I have a machine running at me.chschmid.com already, I decided to do a serious hardware upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/server.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1432\" alt=\"server\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/server.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/server.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/server-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/server-624x302.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Not because the old AMD E-350 CPU can&#8217;t keep up anymore, but because I&#8217;d like to use the new machine as my desktop PC as well. So here&#8217;s what I ordered (some parts of it are actually not new, but carry over from my old setup)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A nice package: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractal-design.com\/home\/product\/cases\/define-series\/define-r4-black-pearl\" target=\"_blank\">Fractal Design DEFINE R4 Black Pearl<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Power: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bequiet.com\/de\/powersupply\/325\" target=\"_blank\">be quite! System Power 7 | 300W<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The base: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigabyte.com\/products\/product-page.aspx?pid=4489#ov\" target=\"_blank\">Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some short term memory: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corsair.com\/en\/memory-by-product-family\/vengeance\/vengeance-8gb-dual-channel-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz8gx3m2a1600c9g.html\" target=\"_blank\">8GB Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some long term memory: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/uk\/consumer\/memory-cards-hdd-odd\/ssd\/840-evo\/MZ-7TE250BW\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung 250GB 2.5-inch 840 EVO SSD<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some more long term memory: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdc.com\/en\/products\/products.aspx?id=810\" target=\"_blank\">Western Digital Red 3TB<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The powerhorse: <a href=\"http:\/\/cpubenchmark.net\/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1245+v3+%40+3.40GHz\" target=\"_blank\">Intel Xeon E3-1245V3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For all I know this system will be hopelessly over-powered, yet power-efficient, so that it can run 24\/7. The parts are probably going to arrive by the end of the week. I&#8217;ll keep you posted about the assembly and everything else that&#8217;s going to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently blogged about why it makes sense to run your own server. Although I have a machine running at me.chschmid.com already, I decided to do a serious hardware upgrade. Not because the old AMD E-350 CPU can&#8217;t keep up anymore, but because I&#8217;d like to use the new machine as my desktop PC as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,16],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_and_stuff","tag-diy","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p15PpI-n3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}