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A while back, I wrote about the server rack at work being such a mess. I discussed the issue with my boss, and he said "Ok, make a plan to upgrade our IT infrastructure and we'll see what we can do". I made a plan, my boss approved it, and so we're in the process of upgrading the whole system at the moment. Part of the plan is to have an off-site server for redundancy/backup of some specific data. Today the server arrived

After opening the rather large box, a shiny new Hewlett Packard Proliant DL180G5 smiled back at me. Hmmmm... I love unpacking new servers, it almost feels like Christmas
 

After releasing them from an additional four boxes, a couple of 1TB hard disks sat on my desk, waiting eagerly to be placed in a server. Two of them will go in this server, and two of them will be placed in another server.. and then we'll use some mechanism to sync them or whatever; I haven't made up my mind yet on how to do the actual backup process.

The server looks sweet 'n sexy, but holy shit... that thing sure makes a lot of noise