Home setup

Rob Dunn

Mines not terribly different:
My home computer running 23" and 19" secondary screen
HP MediaSmart 745 running Ubuntu Server and Plex for my home media
pfSense 2.0.2 Firewall running on old Supermicro box
HP msm430 b/g/n series AP
16 port Linkskey GB switch

Lab:
Dell 1950 with 20GB RAM, 1TB RAID 1 setup, running Hyper-V 2012 Server

2 x 2012 DC's
2 x Win 7 clients
1 x Win 8 client
Cisco 1800 series router
2 x Cisco 2950 switch
(Cisco gear is for CCNA studies)

thegillion

@MattSpeller said:

It's not a contest lol but yes I get it. Primarily for gaming and VM based learnings:

39" 4k with 24" secondary

AMD8320 @ 4.4ghz
8gb
256 samsung840
2x2tb

Soon to add (some are presents but #48 will be my new nas with new hdds)

Hi Matt,

I’m pleased to announce that you had the highest bids for the following items:

Bid: $5.00
Model: Dell Latitude D630
Service Tag:
CPU: C2D T9300 2.5ghz
RAM: 2gb
Hard Drive: 120gb
Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed.

Bid: $5.00
Model: Dell Latitude D830
Service Tag:
CPU: C2D T7500 2.2ghz
RAM: 2gb
Hard Drive: 80gb
Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed.

Bid: $5.00
Model: Dell Latitude XT2
Service Tag:
CPU: Centrino 2 U9600 1.6ghz
RAM: 3gb
Hard Drive: 80gb
Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed. Includes stylus. Dock is broken open along the top seam will still dock but requires some finess to sit in properly.

Bid: $1.00
Model: Dell Precision M90
Service Tag:
CPU: Centrino 2 T7400 2.16ghz
RAM: 4gb
Hard Drive: 150gb
Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed. Requires 130w adapter to even power on

Bid: $1.00
Model: Dell Latitude D410
Service Tag:
CPU: Centrino
RAM: 2gb
Hard Drive: 60gb
Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed. Battery Failing.

Bid: $1.00
Blackberry Playbook 16gb
2 cases, wall style charger

Bid: $1.00
Motion Computing Tablet LS800
Includes stylus, case and charger; only works with Windows XP
Intel Centrino 1.2ghz 1gb 30gb

Bid: $1.00
Computer power supply
450w generic computer power supply (new)

Bid: $1.00
Computer power supply
300w micro ATX generic computer power supply (new)

Bid: $1.00
USB charger
300w micro ATX generic computer power supply (new)

Bid: $1.00
Computer power supply
550w generic computer power supply (new)

42: Bid: $1.00
Garmin GPS
Garmin Nuvi GPS (includes car charger, window suction cup)

48: Bid: $11.00
Dell Power Edge Server (tower style)
Intel Xeon 2 core
4x 250gb HDD
2x 1Gb NIC card
eSATA card
Optical drive (unknown if CD or DVD)

49: Bid: $1.00
A selection of new and used IDE and SATA drives, most are DVD-RW.
Highest bid gets first choice.

Please let me know if you are still interesting in acquiring it (Total $37.00), and if so, please make a cheque for “Canadian Sport Institute” for the total amount and give it to me.

Regards,

How did you get that for $37 ?

Rob Dunn

@thegillion I know, right?

MattSpeller

@thegillion Work auction at a company (Canadian Sports Institute) with very few IT staff and even fewer people interested in computers. If it had included workout gear or fitness stuff the opposite would have happened.

JaredBusch

@MattSpeller said:

@thegillion Work auction at a company (Canadian Sports Institute) with very few IT staff and even fewer people interested in computers. If it had included workout gear or fitness stuff the opposite would have happened.

I think we need to talk in the future! I could use some gear.
For $37 CAD, that is a steal.

JaredBusch

@thegillion said:

I was asking what your home IT setup is.My setup is

Ubiquiti ERL
Ubiquiti UAP
2x Tenda 5 port Gigabit Switches
Buffalo Linkstation Quad (4x 2tb in RAID10) NAS
4 year old Dell Desktop with an i5, 16gb RAM, 250GB SSD, various spinning rust.
2x Samsung Syncmaster 24" monitors
Yealink T42G
HP LaserJet Pro M300 MFP M375nw
Obi110 hooked to a basic cordless phone to call Japan, no DID associated to it.

MattSpeller

@JaredBusch The laptops I refurb and buy an adapter, then donate to good causes. Tis the season!

scottalanmiller

I've got two home setups but the majority of my home network was moved elsewhere. So the big stuff isn't in the house anymore. We used to keep a server rack in the house with some serious gear in it, but that is outside of the house now.

In the house we have:

Ubiquiti ERL Router
Netgear Switch
Ubiquiti AP
Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2
IOSafe 214 (Synology) Fire Safe NAS
HP dc5850 Desktop (Mine)
HP dc5850 Desktop (Dominica's)
HP Folio 13 laptop
Lenovo Yoga 2 laptop
2x iPads
iPad Mini
Google Nexus 7
Kindle Paperwhile
Kindle Classic
iPhone 6
iPhone 5s
Windows Lumia Phone
AppleTV
AppleTV 3
Several video game systems (PS3, 360, WiiU, etc.)
Google Chromebook

My desktop is dual 27" monitors.

My other house has larger rackmount Netgear ProSecure UTM and rackmount Netgear 52 port managed switch and Netgear ProSafe AP.

Minion Queen

I will post part of our setup here @Mike-Ralston and @art_of_shred can post their portions:
My stuff: (I have trimmed down recently I swear)

Whitebox Quad Core Desktop: Assistant w/1- 24" Monitor
Whitebox Eight Core Desktop: ME w/ 2-27" and 1 28" Monitor
Mac Mini i5 - GroveSocial-Me w/ 1-24" Monitor
MacBook Pro- Me
HP Chromebook -living room workstation so I can watch a movie and work all night long
Surface Pro 2 w/dock- Me
IPad Air- Me
Samsung Tab 4-Me

Living Room:
HP Pavilion Windows 7 box- Media server connected to a ReadyNAS

Mike Ralston

Just for my area of the house, I've got:

 Red Dragon

AMD FX 8350
AMD R9 Gamer Series 16GB of RAM (2x8GB)
EVGA GTX 660 SC OC'ed to 1387 MHz
ASUS Xonar Phoebus
Asus Generic DVD/RW
WD Black 1TB HDD
Corsair 600W PSU Non-Modular (Don't remember the model)
Beyerdynamic DT 990 Premium 600 OHM
Blue Snowball
LG 25UM65 21:9 25" monitor (2560 x 1080)
Corsair K70
Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7
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Mini ITX Stream Box
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AMD A6-6400K
8GB Generic RAM (2x4GB)
Some Goofy 400 Watt PSU
WD Blue 1TB
GA-F2A88XN-WIFI
42" Samsung TV
Logitech 5.1 Surround System
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Server Rack for NTG Lab
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DL185 G5
DL145 G2
DL145 G3
Dell PowerEdge R510 x 3
Dell PowerEdge R720
HP DC 5750 x 2
SM SunFire V100 x 3
HP Server RX2600
SM SunFire V240 x 2

PSX_Defector

@Mike-Ralston said:

Just for my area of the house, I've got:

HP Server RX2600

Why the hell would you have some old ass Itanium box? Certainly NTG doesn't get that many requests for HP-UX.

Mike Ralston

@PSX_Defector I've never even powered it up. It's just there.

scottalanmiller

@PSX_Defector said:

Why the hell would you have some old ass Itanium box? Certainly NTG doesn't get that many requests for HP-UX.

You are just jealous. It's a sweet box. Just need to get the interns to get it set up. Will be perfect for running BSD.

nadnerB

Very basic:

Netgear Router
Aging Gaming rig/Family PC
1x NAS

Power is expensive here. We only power on what we need/want to use. Once we have finished with it, it gets powered off

Also have 2x Smartphones and a tablet too

garak0410

Home Server:
Lenovo ThinkServer Core i3
8GB RAM
340GB Solid State Drive (hosts OS and my picture and OneDrive Documents)
Windows Media Center
Plex Server

NAS:
Seagate Business Storage with Windows Storage Server 2012
8TB (5.4TB formatted, with 4 drives)
4TB Western Digital My Live Duo
2TB Western Digital My Live EX
Various 4TB external drives for backups using Backup4All.

Desktop/Laptop/Tablet
Surface Pro 3 Core i7 512GB
Docking Station

Phone:
Nokia Lumia ICON with Windows 8.1.1

Media Center:
XBOX One
Plex
Various steaming services (XBOX Video, Netflix, Amazon Instant Video)

Other:
Dell Venue 8 Pro 64GB Windows 8.1 tablet
iPad Mini
MacMini (2014 version)
AlienWare 14" laptop for gaming when I have time.

MattSpeller

@nadnerB I'm fortunate to live where power is exceptionally inexpensive & that (turning it off) is always a good idea!

Reference material, page 6 - while not the cheapest here (near Vancouver on the map), sub 10c/kwh is pretty good.
http://www.hydroquebec.com/publications/en/comparison_prices/pdf/comp_2014_en.pdf

MattSpeller

Some of you have an unbelievable amount of stuff!

coliver

Home Gaming Computer:

Core i7 2.9Ghz
12 GB of RAM
Dual AMD 6950's (flashed with 6970 firmware)
2TB Hard Drive
1TB Hard Drive
500GB Hard Drive
Runs Windows 8.1

Home Server

Phenom II Black Edition 3.0 Ghz
16GB of RAM
4x 2TB Drive in RAID 10 (Software raid... really want to get a controller
Runs Xenserver

Laptop

6 year old Acer something
Nvidia dedicated gpu
Core 2 Quad Processor
Runs Linux Mint

Media Center:

Chromecast
PS3
Xbox 360

Phone

Samsung Galaxy Note II

Other

Nook Color (flashed with Android)
Surface RT (PDF/Comic reading device)
Droid X2 that I use as an MP3 player