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 (8x2GB), 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]
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– 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:

1. Haystack: Good Luck Finding That Needle
2. Haystack grows up, gets a home
3. Haystack Halting Testing
4. How You Can Help: Iran 2.0 & Haystack
5. Moment of Truth

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