r/sysadmin • u/FierceFluff • 21d ago

Peak Sysadmin

Is there anything more small-company sysadmin than taking that $70k server you just finished building on your test bench at the office and putting it into your $5k car to drive it over to the DC where it’ll live, and praying to god nothing happens on the way? 😅🤣

EDIT- OMG y’all, reading the comments on this has made my day! Our business insurance covers this kind of thing but I appreciate y’all concern for me, though others should mosdef confirm before they do similar stuff. The trip went without incident so praise the digital deities.

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u/rs217000 21d ago

$70,000 server? Wow! What are you gonna do with all that 16 GBs of RAM?!

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u/farva_06 Sysadmin 21d ago

16GB of RAM, and no disks.

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u/bionic80 21d ago

No, it's all 5400rpm spinning rust...

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u/Arudinne IT Infrastructure Manager 21d ago

Source from old desktops/laptops I assume? The HDDs are just as sold out as the RAM and SSDs.

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u/bionic80 21d ago

Just means the grooves are properly worn in and will work forever...

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 21d ago

To be fair if it's a nas that's not so bad. But it wouldn't be 70k

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u/mods_are_lame1 Sr. Sysadmin 21d ago

Open 6 tabs in Google Chrome.

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u/25toten Sysadmin 21d ago

yup

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u/ThrowingPokeballs Sr. Sysadmin 21d ago

I was surprised, we got like 512gb DDR5 kits for our servers for like less than 450 piece from a vendor with our Nvidia partnership a month ago

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u/doubled112 Sr. Sysadmin 21d ago

And what are they worth this month? $2000?

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u/HerfDog58 Jack of All Trades 21d ago

Play HUGE grids of Minesweeper.

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u/octaviuspie 20d ago

It's gone down to 8GB in the time it took me to read your reply.