I'm join in this projiect since 2007

CONGRATULATIONS nelson - WelcoME to SETI BOINC . . .

@ Pappa - Thank You Sir!!! (for ALL thaT YOU arE doing within . . .;)

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Okay things that are still needed:

Sata II 750 Gig Drives Times 24 about $248 on the internet. This will help to get data back and forth (Multibeam), and create proper storage towards Near Time Persistency Checking...

CHEETAH 73GB 10K SCSI HDD ST173404FC Fiberchannel 8+ needed...
This gets tougher... about the best going deal I can find is on eBay with a buy it now of $115 each
New Seagate ST173404FC CHEETAH 73.4GB Hard Drive Listed as New drives. this is to take care of the red lights in the NepApp Storage that should not have dismissed... "There are No Spares, but I did not say that..."

Now for the Server Side We see three high power Servers... We here people complain about "Where is the Science?" Well for Near Time Persistency Checking a New High Power server(s) are needed... There are roughly Half a GaZillion Results to run though it... And users keep shoving in another million a day.... Grin...

Next week I should have a small addendum to the list as they are sorting what they can work with if they do not get the new servers...

Regards

Pappa

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Sir Pappa, i cannot use any of the payment systems listed to donate money; therefore i need details of an appropriate bank account - acc number, bank name/address, sort code,acc name,and an ABA number.

Peter

Please email al.setiboinc (at) gmail.com (replace the (at) with the @ symbol) I will put you in touch with Eric to handle the transaction...

Sir Pappa, i cannot use any of the payment systems listed to donate money; therefore i need details of an appropriate bank account - acc number, bank name/address, sort code,acc name,and an ABA number.

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That would leave Seagate or Fujitsu.

...and Hitachi. For those whom may have forgotten; or, are unaware, a number of years ago Hitachi and IBM got together. Hitachi has taken over IBM's "Deskstar" Hard Drive line. These drives are very very solid.

I would have recommended Maxtor; however, as Seagate has taken over Maxtor recently, I am hesitant to make such a recommendation. In my experience, and from friends' and colleagues' experiences with Seagate Drives - they tend to fail early and have even greater Dead In Box issues. I myself have had many such experiences in the past, and this has left a very VERY bad taste in my mouth pertaining to Seagate.

As stated, Western Digital isn't much better as of late. About nine years ago, they, (in my opinion), shot themselves in the proverbial foot when they cut back their R&D and Q&A Departments. (Except for their High End Drives.) This has had me stay away from Western Digital since 1998.

However; Hitachi is a viable and strong drive. Check out the current "Deskstar" Line by them. Great warranty, great product.


Sincerely,

Timelord...Generally these are called DEATHSTARS for a VERY good reason, they are unreliable rubbish. Over the years of running SETI, 8 years now, I have run various machines and various numbers, and you can all imagine the hardware diversity that produced at times. There was a short period of time when I ran 54 machines at the same time, and in all that I had a mix of drives from WD, Seagate, Fujitsu, IBM, Samsung and Hitachi.

In those days, prior to the Hitachi/IBM marriage, Hitachi drives were solid and reliable, the old IBM deathstars where a pile of rubbish and I eventually replaced them all and binned them..couldn't be bothered to sell them on ebay or give them away they were that bad.

Overall Seagate IDE drives proved to be the most reliable, yes I had the odd failure, but the law of averages means some would, Fujitsu were also very strong, just difficult to obtain, WD drives are strong, but they do have firmware issues, they always have and I don't think WD give a stuff. I have moved Database files corrupted and even experienced this corruption on BMS systems that utilised WD drives. get rid of the WD's and the problem evaporates, it is not limited to Linux machines I can assure you of that.

Over the years the most reliable drives by a million miles is Seagate and Samsung. I have three machines running that are using old Seagate and one Samsung drive as the boot drives that are as old as my time in the project almost. One Seagate is actually older as it originated in a Dell XPS 400 I bought way back in 1996 and is a measly 10GB or there abouts..XP takes up half the drive!!

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REQUEST for anyone involved:

Can we have a documented list here of what has been donated hardware wise since January 1st please?

No names of donators...just specifically what hardware has been donated?

Thank you

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Is there an updated version of this list?

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_budget.php

Also, it would help if the hardware needs were detailed better.

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Dublin, California
Team: SETI.USA

Also, it would help if the hardware needs were detailed better.

Such as an explicit wish list?

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Grant
Darwin NT

Such as an explicit wish list?

You read my mind. =;^)

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Dublin, California
Team: SETI.USA

Such as an explicit wish list?

You read my mind. =;^)

I have about four tons of computer junk, some of it pretty new (2 years) containing among them five SUN E5500 fully expanded, memory, motherboard, small servers (Dual-Xeons) and so on. Some of it is taken home by staff, but most of it is going straight to recycling. I could pretty much swear that some of it would be usefull.
Problem is mostly shipping, but at least memory, motherboards and processors are possible to ship. Ontop of that we are sharing house with four other computer laboratories with about equal amount of junk. Together we could cram together some pretty monstrous servers which are running two year old technology.

So with a wish list...

Carl

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Carl

Email me and I will put you in touch with Matt and Eric, Thumpers crash has made the list obsolete. It you could inculde examples that would be good...

al.setiboinc (at) gmail.com

Such as an explicit wish list?

You read my mind. =;^)

I have about four tons of computer junk, some of it pretty new (2 years) containing among them five SUN E5500 fully expanded, memory, motherboard, small servers (Dual-Xeons) and so on. Some of it is taken home by staff, but most of it is going straight to recycling. I could pretty much swear that some of it would be usefull.
Problem is mostly shipping, but at least memory, motherboards and processors are possible to ship. Ontop of that we are sharing house with four other computer laboratories with about equal amount of junk. Together we could cram together some pretty monstrous servers which are running two year old technology.

So with a wish list...

Carl

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Pack your bags man!

Answered in letter with some examples.

Carl

Carl

Email me and I will put you in touch with Matt and Eric, Thumpers crash has made the list obsolete. It you could inculde examples that would be good...

al.setiboinc (at) gmail.com

Such as an explicit wish list?

You read my mind. =;^)

I have about four tons of computer junk, some of it pretty new (2 years) containing among them five SUN E5500 fully expanded, memory, motherboard, small servers (Dual-Xeons) and so on. Some of it is taken home by staff, but most of it is going straight to recycling. I could pretty much swear that some of it would be usefull.
Problem is mostly shipping, but at least memory, motherboards and processors are possible to ship. Ontop of that we are sharing house with four other computer laboratories with about equal amount of junk. Together we could cram together some pretty monstrous servers which are running two year old technology.

So with a wish list...

Carl

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Greetings to Pappa, Eric, and the group.

I was just curious, and I know everyone has been extremely busy, but is there any chance at all to get any kind of an updated list of the hardware needs for the project? Something more complete instead of trying to sort through all the messages not only here but other threads as well. I'm sure it would be very much appriciated. Thanks.

Jeremy

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Greetings to Pappa, Eric, and the group.

I was just curious, and I know everyone has been extremely busy, but is there any chance at all to get any kind of an updated list of the hardware needs for the project? Something more complete instead of trying to sort through all the messages not only here but other threads as well. I'm sure it would be very much appriciated. Thanks.

Jeremy

Me to!
Carl

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Please see Matt Lebofsky's post.


"... Knowing this, we're waiting for current avenues of hardware donation to pan out, and then Jeff, Eric, and I will sit down and revise our hardware donation page. ..."

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Please see Matt Lebofsky's post.


"... Knowing this, we're waiting for current avenues of hardware donation to pan out, and then Jeff, Eric, and I will sit down and revise our hardware donation page. ..."

Hehe!
I know, I am just being the ever curious cat you know.

Carl

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Please see Matt Lebofsky's post.


"... Knowing this, we're waiting for current avenues of hardware donation to pan out, and then Jeff, Eric, and I will sit down and revise our hardware donation page. ..."

I read all the forums, but thank you for pointing it out.

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Pappa - I have > 40 Seagate SCSI (68 & 80 Pin) HDDs from 23 - 181 GB Double Height Server drives most "Pulls" but some new. I've swiched over my 16 +/-SETI machines to SATA and these are just sitting already properly packed in boxes in foam with 5 - 10 drives per box - Controller cards already sold off. Additionally, two small servers (1 x dual Core 2 Xeons & 1 x dual P-III Zeons) and one reserve workstation (a P4 PD 945 Dual Core). Plus, 8 x 256MB FB-ECC DDR RAM and lots of 478 P$ Mobos w/ 1.6 - 2.8 Mhz 478s. Mods have my e-mail.

Ken et al

I know Eric was working on a Frankenstien machine and still has a need for the Seagate Fiber Channel Drives ST173404FC. As was mentioned there has been and update to the Donate Hardware Page

As usual, if you want to email me the details I will forward that to Eric... that gives specifics then he can contact you directly. As it is Friday I would not expect a response before Monday.

al.setiboinc (at) gmail.com

Pappa - I have > 40 Seagate SCSI (68 & 80 Pin) HDDs from 23 - 181 GB Double Height Server drives most "Pulls" but some new. I've swiched over my 16 +/-SETI machines to SATA and these are just sitting already properly packed in boxes in foam with 5 - 10 drives per box - Controller cards already sold off. Additionally, two small servers (1 x dual Core 2 Xeons & 1 x dual P-III Zeons) and one reserve workstation (a P4 PD 945 Dual Core). Plus, 8 x 256MB FB-ECC DDR RAM and lots of 478 P$ Mobos w/ 1.6 - 2.8 Mhz 478s. Mods have my e-mail.

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This is very tough, I have spent a lot of years working to help find ET, helping other Seti Users, Seti Beta and work to get Seti past Donations I Donations II, Hardware Donations I, Hardware Donations II and other issues... The last two years have been very intense in things that are not common knowledge.

I am human, I have worked more hours than most would every know. Seti is not Set It and Forget It! Sometimes when I see things that are what I feel are wrong, I say things. Some of those things are not what Seti wants but are my own personal feelings! My opinions are mine, they are not Seti's but they do reflect on Seti. In that respect I am wrong, it has never been my intention do to things that are negative to Seti. At times it becomes very hard to find something positive when what "we" all see is an outage... I also know that others keep helping new users and have managed to keep going. Thank You!

We are all human and have good days and bad days...

For those that I may have wronged, I apologize... It then becomes for everyone to decide, are we here to find ET or fight... I truly hope the choice is to to Find ET!

Seti Needs Funding Help, that needs to be considered! It may be that each and everyone one of you, needs to look at what you can do to help Seti survive... I know that many who did not want their names disclosed made Bruno happen (that group came up with over $8000)! I know that many would give what they could but what could but, could not help (hardware)... Thank You for the Offer! It was tough to explain why it could not help... I know that it was meant from Concern and the Heart!
I would also ask Team Captains to ask Eric what can be done! The larger the group that is working on keeping Seti Alive the better... No, it should not be me or Fuzzy or a small silent group... It should be EVERYONE! You make Seti not me me or a small group....

I would hope that we never see "Personal Interests" here but a concern to Find ET!

So at this point, I ask that a Moderator unsticky this Forum Thread (on the first of June 2007)... As it appears that that I have wronged a number of people. I would prefer to quit rather than damage Seti! So, who will step up to carry the torch to Help Seti Survive? This becomes your chance to Shine!

Regrads

Pappa

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