Haystack Gets A Dell, Dude
Well actually two Dells, one for backup. The other night we just ordered our first two Dell PowerEdge blades to handle some of the network load from Haystack users. We hope to take delivery on them in the next week or so (everything takes so long!) and we’ll get them up in their data center home as quickly as we can. Without further ado, I give you the first two in-house Haystack work horses:
PowerEdge R610 – Chassis for Up to Six 2.5-Inch Hard Drives, No Operating System
Unit Price: $4,796.00
Quantity: 2
Total Price: $9,592.00– PowerEdge R610 –
– Chassis for Up to Six 2.5-Inch Hard Drives
– [224-4848]
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– Shipping –
– PowerEdge R610 Shipping
– [330-4122]
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– Memory –
– 16GB Memory (8×2GB), 1066MHz Dual Ranked UDIMMs for 2 Processors, Adv ECC
– [317-0233]
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– Feature Upgrades for Embedded NIC Ports –
– Dual Two-Port Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5709 Gigabit Ethernet NIC
– [430-1764]
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– Primary Processor –
– Intel® Xeon® X5550, 2.66Ghz, 8M Cache,Turbo, HT, 1333MHz Max Mem
– [317-0202]
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– Additional Processor –
– Intel® Xeon® X5550, 2.66Ghz, 8M Cache,Turbo, HT, 1333MHz Max Mem
– [317-0211]
– [317-1215]
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– 1st Hard Drive –
– HD Multi-Select
– [341-4158]
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– Primary Controller –
– SAS 6/iR Integrated
– [341-9145]
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– BIOS Setting –
– Power Saving BIOS Setting
– [330-3491]
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– Operating System –
– No Operating System
– [420-6320]
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– Embedded Management –
– iDRAC6 Express
– [467-8649]
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– Internal Optical Drive –
– DVD ROM, SATA, Internal
– [313-7541]
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– Bezel –
– No Bezel
– [313-0869]
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– System Documentation –
– Electronic System Documentation, OpenManage DVD Kit with DMC
– [330-3523]
– [330-5280]
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– Hard Drive Configuration –
– No RAID for SAS 6/iR Controllers
– [341-8753]
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– Rails –
– No Rack Rails or Cable Management Arm
– [330-3522]
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– Hardware Support Services –
– 3Yr Basic Hardware Warranty Repair: 5×10 HW-Only, 5×10 NBD Onsite
– [992-9872]
– [993-3570]
– [993-9359]
– [993-9457]
– [993-9458]
– [994-4019]
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– Installation Services –
– No Installation
– [900-9997]
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– Power Supply –
– Energy Smart Power Supply, Non-Redundant, 502W
– [330-3517]
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– Power Cords –
– No Additional Power Cord
– [310-9057]
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– Power Cords –
– NEMA 5-15P to C14 Wall Plug, 125 Volt, 15 AMP, 10 Feet (3m), Power Cord
– [310-8509]
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– Hard Drives –
– 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA 2.5″ Hot Plug Hard Drive
– [341-8725]
———————–– Save $549 on each PowerEdge R610 servers through Dell Small Business
- $1,098.00 total savings
With these two machines we should easily be able to serve 7,500 Haystack users while we ramp up to full capacity. The whole team is very excited to get these into place as we press on with the launch of Haystack. We’ve been very busy organizing the logistics of everything and I can’t thank everyone enough for helping make this possible — Twitter, the Internet, and the wonderful group of people I work with endless hours doing the hard labor.
Everyday we continue to test Haystack inside of Iran and are refining the program to make it better, faster, and stronger before our wide-scale release. If you can, consider donating to Haystack to help us bring proper uncensored Internet to Iran.
We’ll post pictures of the babies when they get here 
Related posts:
- Haystack: Good Luck Finding That Needle
- Haystack grows up, gets a home
- A Stick for the Stack?
- How You Can Help: Iran 2.0 & Haystack
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Well done Austin & everyone who helped to make this possible. Much love to everyone. FREEDOM FOR IRAN!
by: roya, Aug 2nd at 10:49 pm
I am finding new hope for humanity! Austin, you stepped up to the plate and made/will make history just by being you! You’re the man! Cry freedom!
by: shy, Aug 2nd at 11:54 pm
Good Job Austin :-bd and the rest of the guys.
by: Walt, Aug 3rd at 3:13 am
Right on, Austin, et.al.!
by: 808lika, Aug 3rd at 11:40 pm
Good Job.
by: Mohammad, Aug 4th at 8:56 am
Nice one guys – much appriciated
by: Aly, Aug 5th at 8:52 am
I am not trying to be unappreciative or anything but I am constantly reading your sites to see any news of the actual impact of all this in Iran. Do you know if these are getting to Iran and are people using them? How can someone here get them to Iran? Please tune down the Hu ra ra a bit and outline the instructions. Again, not to be the party pooper or anything…
m.
by: mandana, Aug 5th at 11:18 am
ALLOURRESPECT2UGUYS
TC
by: Siavash, Aug 6th at 12:47 pm
I’m not giving more money to Haystack until I hear the the other USB drives have been delivered and are in use. (But I don’t have much money anyway…)
by: Gene Venable, Aug 8th at 6:54 am
Since users’ lives may literally be on the line, it’s essential that Haystack be made freely available for technical examination.
I’ve read the FAQ and I understand the rationale for wanting to keep the details secret, but I must respectfully disagree. In the eventuality that Haystack falls into the wrong hands, discovering its vulnerabilities will be fairly easy. That’s why we need the best minds in the field to be able to help eliminate those vulnerabilities. Just as important, users need to be precisely aware of what kinds of risks they’ll be assuming.
Since I have a moral obligation to try to ensure that my efforts won’t cause unintentional harm, I’m afraid that I cannot support Haystack at this time. I’ll continue to operate a reliable Tor bridge, knowing that the potential vulnerabilities in this system are well understood. I’ll also continue to hold the Haystack team in my highest regard for your efforts. I wish you outstanding success!
by: Mayo, Aug 12th at 4:12 pm
Translate languages persian in english . i from in IRAN
i from ( live) in iran .i need anti filter in iran . you send to me . in persian ( farsi ) :
با سلام و ادب و احترام . من رضا از ایران این نامه را برای شما مینگارم . در ایران تمام سایتهای دگر اندیش و سیاسی مسدود و فیلتر شده است . من از شما خواهش میکنم نرم افزار ضد فیلتر خودتان به نام: هی استیک” را به وسیله ایمیل برای من ارسال نمایید . من به نرم افزار شما شدیدا نیاز دارم . لطفا فورا برای من ارسال نمایید ادرس من :
sepahreza@gmail.com
من منتظر ایمیل شما به همراه نرم افزار هستم.
رضا از ایران
by: reza in iran, Sep 3rd at 6:48 pm
فیلتر شکن ارسال کنید
by: pap, Oct 18th at 10:55 am
برایم فیلترشکن توپ بفرستید
by: alir, Jan 22nd at 10:06 am
hi
I need haystack anti filter .
thanks .
by: iran, Feb 19th at 1:24 am
hi
im from iran.plz give me proxy
plz
plz
by: ml, Feb 20th at 2:54 pm
i need haystack anti filter. im from iran
by: Arash, Mar 16th at 3:42 pm
siahposhe_ashegh@yahoo.com
by: Arash, Mar 16th at 3:46 pm
Hi
I need haystack anti filter too.
thank you very much.
by: sh, Mar 16th at 4:53 pm
Dear sir
I want to say thank you for your help. And I hope meet you in Iran as soon as possible when the my people got FREEDOM in Iran.
I need the Haystack software too.
Please send me Haystack by E-mail.
Best regards
by: Aria, Mar 17th at 7:19 am
Hi
I need haystack anti filter too.
im from iran.plz give me haystack
thank you very much.
by: atrebehesht, Mar 18th at 2:04 am
atrebehesht2005@gmail.com
by: atrebehesht, Mar 18th at 2:09 am