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You are here: Home / Stefan Didak’s Home Office Desktop / Home Office Version 5

Home Office Version 5

“You can never have enough screen real-estate! And no, this is not Steve Ballmer’s office.”
“I do not tell people what to do so do not compare me with Al Gore either!”

Are you looking for this multi-monitor home office setup?
Well, Sorry!!! THIS previous home office has been improved upon.

Stefan Didak Home Office Version 5

The images above show the main desktop with its 7 screens, 9 screens if the two laptops are used.
The bricks, by the way, are not real bricks. They are brick textured foam wallpaper.
Nice side effect is they dampen and absorb a lot of fan white noise.

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The streaks of light coming from the back of the desk are USB mounted LED lights.
4 Hyundai dual-input screens, 2 BenQ’s because they had the same style, and one HP.
Resolution: 6400×1024 (wide) + 2560×1024 (lower two). Center quad: 2560 x 2048.

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The workspace during daylight. Yes, I do sometimes allow daylight to flow in.
The desks are NOT held up by computers as some think they see. The desks are sturdy metal Projekta electronics workbenches that can be adjusted for height.

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There is wide-screen, ultra-wide, and insanely wide. This is the efficiently wide.

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The two ASUS T2-AE1 (Athlon64 4000+) machines.
Hidden below you might notice the original Amiga 1000.

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The HP NW8240 Mobile Workstation.
Amazing how they managed to fit 1920×1200 on a 15 inch wide screen.

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The networking core of 3Com Office Connect switches, routers, and modems.
All systems have dual-NIC’s (Gigabit) that split into two network segments.
Internet connectivity is split amongst 3 lines, good for 26mbps.

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Cortex, Argon, and the centralized storage center to the right.
Big Fat Argon there is not a NAS. It’s a properly sized VM host.

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Oxygen (left), with its 3TB RAID-5 and 1.5TB RAID-0 Arrays (LSI MegaRAID SATA-6)
and additional 750GB of temporary backup storage (IDE 250GB Western Digital).
Helium (right) inside a Chieftec Bravo, 3.2TB RAID-6 (Areca), EN7950GX2, 800W PSU.

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The paperless office is a myth!

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Basic audio mixing to deal with various system’s system sounds.

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The chair is a Herman Miller Aeron, the best ergonomic chair ever made if you ask me.

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Close-up of the network core… soon to be updated since it has expanded (again).

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The Chieftec Arena 2000 case, housing a dual Xeon 5080 with 32GB of ECC RAM.

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This monster has 8 case fans and uses two PSU’s (500W + 800W) each with two fans,
and 2 CPU fans, 1 graphics card fan, 1 slot fan, 1 fan on the RAID controller,
with 2 80mm fans on the RAID cages. That’s a whopping 19 fan wind turbine.

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8TB of storage, 32GB RAM, Dual Xeon, hosting dozens of VM’s.
On average will run 12-20 virtual machine OS guests.

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Cables, more cables, some cables, and velcro to keep it all bundled neatly.

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A bad attempt at creating a panoramic shot.

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I just happen to like the blue engulfing light from the screens.

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The Intel PR440FX dual Pentium-Pro motherboard with a ‘whopping’ 256MB ECC RAM.
Back in 1995 this was one of the most powerful SMP workstation boards.

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The two Pentium-Pro CPUs that once graced the motherboard above.

Stefan Didak Home Office Version 5 ZX81

Yes, that’s a Sinclair ZX-81 (anno 1981) with a 16KB memory expansion pack.
I’ve saved it all those years and now it’s on the wall.

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How the desktop used to look before switching to TFT screens and overhauling the office.

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The personal library of books. Many for sentimental value because they include me or material I created.

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Read all about how AwareBear, a company owned by Andre Leite Alves, stole one of my pictures, pasted himself in it, and used it on their computer repair brochures.

Also, please visit the
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About Stefan Didak

Hi. I'm Stefan Didak
...and I do not work at NASA
...and also not for the NSA
...not even for the CIA
...and not at CERN either!

The pictures on this page are of my home office desktop which, since I first published these pictures, have been causing a lot of chatter on various web forums and blogs.

The attention my home office has received is quite stunning and way more than I would have expected. Since things have gotten out of control in terms of questions regarding the setup, the hardware, and what on earth I am using all this for, and what kind of electricity bills it results in, I have decided to setup a FAQ and a comments page where you can read what others had to say, or leave a comment of your own.

Swag?

My wife has been trying to convince me that I should start offering crazy-home-office swag like t-shirts and coffee mugs. While I think that would be hilariously funny I'm not sure I should put in the effort to set something like that up. Perhaps I should ask the visitors of this page what they think of that idea. If you like the idea of crazy-office swag, leave a comment.

The Specs

People have asked me to list some specs on the systems in the home office. I will make an attempt at that but am not sure how up to date I can keep it since there are expansions, upgrades, changes, and quite a lot of enhancements taking place every few months.

Summary

The 7.0 office:

  • 18 Workstations/Servers
  • 4 Laptops
  • 548 TB of total storage
  • Some stuff not pictured here

The 6.0 office:

  • 14 Workstations/Servers
  • 5 Laptops
  • 125 TB of total storage
  • Some systems not pictured here

The old 5.0 office:

  • 9 Systems
  • 3 Laptops
  • 38 TB of total storage

Small 7.0 Office Images

Office 5.0 Specs

SYSTEM 'ARGON'

Base:
Dual Xeon 5080
Tyan Tempest i5000PW
32 GB RAM

Chassis:
Chieftec Arena 2000B

Storage:
Nearly 8 TB of storage
750 GB x 8
400 GB x 2
750 GB x 2

Details:
Areca ARC-1230
12 x SATA300 RAID PCI-E x8
With 1 GB DIMM Cache

Graphics:
ATI X800

System weight:
A whopping 86 Kg

Power:
A 500W and an 800W PSU

SYSTEM 'OXYGEN'

Base:
2 x Dual Core AMD Opteron 275
Tyan Thunder K8WE
8 GB RAM

Chassis:
Procase Palo-Alto 501 Blue

Storage:
3 TB RAID-5 and 1.5 TB RAID-0
750 GB x 4
750 GB x 2
250 GB x 3 (IDE)

Details:
LSI MegaRAID SATA-150 6
6 x SATA150 RAID
With 256 MB Cache

System weight:
A whopping 42 Kg

Power:
A single 800W PSU

SYSTEM 'HELIUM'

Base:
Core 2 Duo E6600
ASUS P5W64 Professional
4 GB RAM

Chassis:
Chieftec Bravo BA-01B-B-B

Storage:
3.2 TB RAID-6 storage
400 GB x 8

Details:
Areca ARC-1220LP
8x SATA300 RAID PCI-E x8
With 256 MB Cache

Graphics:
nVidia EN7950GX2

System weight:
A mere 38 Kg.

Power:
A single 800W PSU.

SYSTEM 'HALON'

Base:
Core 2 Duo E6600
ASUS P5W64 Professional
4 GB RAM

Chassis:
Chieftec Bravo BA-01B-B-B

Storage:
3.2 TB RAID-6 storage
400 GB x 8

Details:
Areca ARC-1220LP
8x SATA300 RAID PCI-E x8
With 256 MB Cache

Graphics:
nVidia EN7900GTX/2PHT

System weight:
A mere 38 Kg.

Power:
A single 650W PSU.

SYSTEM 'NEON'

Base:
Core 2 Quad Q6700
ASUS P5E WS Pro
8 GB RAM

Chassis:
Chieftec Bravo BA-01B-B-B

Storage:
4.0 TB RAID-5 storage
1 TB x 4

600 GB RAID-0 storage
150 GB Raptors x 4

Details:
Areca ARC-1220LP
8x SATA300 RAID PCI-E x8
With 256 MB Cache

Graphics:
EN8800ULTRA/HTDP 768MB

System weight:
About 36 Kg.

Power:
A single 1000W PSU.

SYSTEM 'RADON'

Base:
Dual Xeon 5060
Tyan Tempest i5000PX
16 GB RAM

Chassis:
Chieftec Dragon

Storage:
320 GB x 4 RAID-5
320 GB x 4 RAID-0

Details:
AMCC 3Ware 9500S-8
8 x SATA150 RAID
With 512 MB Cache

Graphics:
ATI X800 PCI-E

System weight:
A mere 34 Kg

Power:
A single 800W PSU

SYSTEM 'HYDROGEN'

Base:
Dual AMD Opteron 254
Tyan Thunder K8WE
8 GB RAM

Chassis:
Chieftec BX

Storage:
150 GB Raptors x 6
Single RAID-0 Array

Details:
Areca ARC-1220LP
8x SATA300 RAID PCI-E x8
With 256 MB Cache

Graphics:
nVidia EN7900

System weight:
A little under 26 Kg

Power:
A single 700W PSU.

SYSTEM 'ISIS'

Base:
ASUS T2-AE1
Athlon 64 4000+
2 GB RAM

Storage:
320 GB SATA x 2

Details:
Additional Intel Pro 1000+ NIC

Power:
A single 300W PSU

SYSTEM 'OSIRIS'

Base:
ASUS T2-AE1
Athlon 64 4000+
2 GB RAM

Storage:
320 GB SATA x 2

Details:
Additional Intel Pro 1000+ NIC

Power:
A single 300W PSU

SYSTEM 'OCTANE'

Base:
HP NW8710w Mobile Workstation
Intel Core2 Duo T7700
4 GB RAM

Storage:
120 GB 7200 rpm HD
160 GB WD Passport
160 GB WD Passport

Graphics:
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M 512MB
17 inch 1920 x 1200 (WUXGA)

System weight:
Very portable at 3.4kg! :-)

SYSTEM 'NITROUS'

Base:
HP NW8240 Mobile Workstation
Intel Pentium M 760
2 GB RAM

Storage:
80 GB HD
80 GB WD Passport
120 GB WD Passport

Graphics:
ATI FireGL5000 Mobile
15.4 inch 1920 x 1200 (WUXGA)

System weight:
Very portable at 2.8Kg! :-)

SYSTEM 'XENON'

Base:
Sony Vaio PCG-809K
1 GB RAM

Storage:
60 GB HD

Graphics:
15 inch 1400 x 1050 TFT

System weight:
Less portable than the HP!

ADDITIONAL NAS & SAN

12.5 TB of central storage
Of which 1.8 TB of SCSI storage
And 1.2 TB of XHD storage

TOTAL STORAGE

12.5 TB of central storage
30.5 TB of systems storage

Total office: approx. 43 TB.

Small 6.0 Office Images

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