LAN Party Hardware

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I organized an Alumni LAN Party for my high school for my classmates and I.  I borrowed some hardware for the event.  It should be a great time.  Here are some pictures/screenshots:

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Server Specs:  The left is the dedicated game server, the right the dedicated file server.  What isn’t shown in the below spec screenshots is that the Game Server runs 4x-146gb Seagate Cheetah’s in RAID 10, while the File Server runs 4x-2tb WD Green’s in RAID 5.

  • GameServer: What isn’t shown in the below spec screenshots it runs 4x-146gb Seagate Cheetah’s in RAID 10

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  • FileServer:  What isn’t shown in the below spec screenshots is that it runs 4x-2tb WD Green’s in RAID 5.

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Simultaneous Servers/Resource Load: 0 clients (Will update with client load)

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Network Bandwidth Between the 2 Servers: I teamed the NICs to work together in tandem on a Dell PowerConnect Gigabit switch.  Below is a screenshot of the speed of a file transfer:

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