What sort of kit do you have at home?

**DimPrawn** · 30 May 2006, 19:12

As I've posted before, if you are going to use the earth's resources to heat your home, why not use a hundred PC's all running http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/ or similar and save mankind in the process.

That's my excuse for having 8 PC's anyway......

**TheMonkey** · 30 May 2006, 19:22

Originally posted by Joe Black

So poll time, who has an entire small company IT centre running from underneath the stairs?

I do!

I'll post a photo when I finally become arsed enough to charge up the digicam.

**Joe Black** · 30 May 2006, 19:22

8 PCs?, and little me with just my laptop.

Actually the one thing I did at one point have lots of was printers, and cameras, since that's one of the few things I can quite happily spent hours sitting behind a PC and doing.

**DimPrawn** · 30 May 2006, 20:07

That's an Intel box no? Can tell by the heat it produces.

**vista** · 30 May 2006, 20:32

kit list - no address

12 1U physical rack mounted servers in my garage (W2K3)
18 Vmware servers sitting on three servers (64bit x 4GB x 320GB x W2K3-R2)
1TB Dell NAS
1TB direct attached storage
Cat 5 downstairs
Wifi upstairs
Two routers
couple of Cisco switches
9 physical clients
2 notebooks
7-12 Vmware clients on two servers (64bit x 4GB x 320GB x W2K3-R2)
Action pack, Technet+ and Select from a bunch of clients

All split between PROD, DEV and the wild west.

Electric bill of around £200 per month but that includes wasting money on other house hold stuff as well.

**wc2** · 30 May 2006, 20:56

1 File Server
6 Client PC's
2 Client Laptops
8 Epson R200's
4 Epson R220's
Minolta 2430 Laser
4 1 to 7 DVD Dupers

Keeps the house warm when everything is in full swing.

**Fungus** · 30 May 2006, 21:13

1 PC + Iiyama 19" CRT monitor bought used.
1 handheld PC for recording fungi.

Awe inspiring I know.

I donated my old Dell PC and monitor to Oxfam. I can't be done with more than one of these infernal machines.

**DimPrawn** · 30 May 2006, 21:34

It's not too late to upgrade your hardware.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cray-SGI-Mainfra...QQcmdZViewItem

**Fungus** · 30 May 2006, 21:39

Originally posted by DimPrawn

It's not too late to upgrade your hardware.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cray-SGI-Mainfra...QQcmdZViewItem

I see from the pictures that you can wall mount it too.

Something like a Cray/Deep Blue, that sort of thing.	0.00%	0 votes
The full monty. Rack mounted servers, nas, cat5 cable/wi-fi everywhere.	2.56%	1 vote
Various bits and bobs, old/new PCs hooked up one way or another.	33.33%	13 votes
A server running 'whatever' enterprise edition and all the rest, plus a desktop/notebook.	20.51%	8 votes
Home desktop PC, plus a notebook for 'away from home'.	15.38%	6 votes
Single desktop for everything.	15.38%	6 votes
Just a notebook.	7.69%	3 votes
An iMac, Powerbook or such like to match the furniture.	2.56%	1 vote
Only a PS2, XBox. Work finishes at work.	0.00%	0 votes
Nothing remotely like the above.	2.56%	1 vote

What sort of kit do you have at home?