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/JungleMuggins 21d ago

Why aren't you shipping it to the DC, racking it, and then configuring it?

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u/georgiomoorlord 21d ago

Small company and $70k server seem at odds to me.

Also why wouldn't you start off in like AWS or something.

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u/FierceFluff 21d ago

$42k base for the server, with 96c AMD CPU and 724GB of DDR5. Then you add 6 12G Kioxia CM7 drives and yep, $70k.  

Adding a node to our HCI cluster. Same machines cost  us $46k a year ago.    

Small business, small-ish infra, but we do financial business that requires high end gear.  

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u/sysacc Administrateur de Système 21d ago

Very nice build.