Welcome to Mr Nicol Thomson who joined us recently as a technician. Nicol has been working in the school casually since 2014 on a number of Lab Designs, technical support and the development of the Laddie unit you can see below. Stuart our head of systems said, “Nicol is an excellent addition to the school’s … Welcome to Mr Nicol Thomson
The School has started the tender process for replacement of our Lab PCs. The new PCs will have a similar form-factor to the current PCs but will have faster more power efficient CPUs, more memory, quieter cooling and twin HDDs for simpler dual boot configuration. We will be replacing the current displays with LED back-lit … Lab PC upgrade
Our storage server prototype build is now complete and we have moved on to configuration, tuning and testing. After some delays in sourcing components the build is now complete and everything appears to be working. The server will run BSD with ZFS. The chassis holds 24 3.5″ HDDs in hot-swap bays. These are connected to … Storage Server Protype
The SuperMicro chassis for our storage server prototpe has arrived. The chassis is a SuperMicro SC846E16-R1200 providing dual 1200W PSUs, 24 hot-swap 3.5″ drive bays and a 4U SAS2 expander backplane. We will be putting 1TB 7200RPM disks in the prototype but it is good to know that the chassis allows us to opt for … Chassis for storage server prototype