Whishlist

I recently built a wishlist of additions for my great new opteron box
- USB 2.0 Card, possibly with firewire controller too..
- Matrox G450 PCI or better PCI-X framebuffer.. but thoses are unaffordable
- Hard driver 250gb SATA x4
- 90mm fan x2
- 1gb RAM ECC 400mHz x2 (or x8 it would be better but I can't have everything)
- AMD OPTERON 275 x2
- DVD Burner
- 19" Monitor

Note that there is a priority.. the 2 AMD Opterons 275 won't be for this year, probably not for next year neither ;)
A framebuffer is becoming quite.. needed
90mm fans comes with the drives..

Storage is always good
Another monitor is always good, especially when you have a matrox framebuffer
USB 2.0 is to power my webcam.. it's quite sluggish because of the absence of usb 2.0
DVD Burner to make backups

That would create a system with specs like thoses :

2 Gigabit ethernets
1 10/100 ethernet
3 gigs of ECC 400 mHz ram with 128 bit read (or 8gb but.. maybe in 2-3-4 years)
ATI XL framebuffer (or.. shit)
Matrox PCI framebuffer (better)
4 cores of amd opteron 64 bit at 2gHz each (quad core system.. wow !)
1.12tb of storage
USB 2.0 controller
USB 1.1 controller
IDE bus (full)
SATA bus (full)


drooool !
I don't think it's... possible to build a better workstation than this one.. (I wrote workstation, not server ;) without starting to be excentric filling the system with the 32 gb of ram it can contain

Then I could add up an scsi PCI-X controller with a scsi array and a few internal drives; that could add up 73gb * 10 = 0.73tb of storage... approx 2tb of total storage...

Now the only improvement that will be possibly done leads me into the me into the workgroup server/midrange market (fiber chanel with fiber array and Alternate Pathing, hot swapping, clustering many boxes like this to distribute load, add a tape librairy to store up to 1200tb of data ( some plans to run yes during a long long time and archive all it's output ;) )

It's awesome the possiblities this boxe gives !

drooool