Behind AnandTech - 2002 Server Upgrade

The Obligatory Pictures

At the end of every one of our Behind AnandTech server articles, we've always brought you pictures of the end result. Not wanting to disappoint, here you go again:

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What used to take up one and a half racks now takes up less than a full rack thanks to Appro's 1124i servers that replaced our massive 4U and 5U cases.

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Although the 1U form factor of the 1124 server saves us space it provides us with a pretty big limitation when it comes to drive expansion options. In order to address the I/O requirements of the Forums DB server we had to use this chassis for the six Quantum Atlas 10K II drives that make up the Forums DB RAID array.

Here is a good comparison of one of our 5U cases to three of the Appro 1U 1124i systems that we installed.

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