Here you are looking at the server cabinets. A server cabinet is also referred to as a server rack or a server enclosure or even an equipment rack. Server cabinets have a depth up to 1400mm to accommodate the largest servers and network equipment like servers, reboot ports, switches, routers, KVM equipment and soon. The open cabinet in the background is G1 (Guru1) where the servers are located.

The equipment inserted into the racks are 19" wide. Before you ask, the pink and yellow boxes hold rack-screws and mounts, no fashion statements here please ! Loud and warm are the two things that come to mind when you enter the data-suite. Hundreds of servers make an incredible amount of noise and produce heat like you don't know it. Anyway, the upper shelf are four guru3d.coms content servers, let's have a closer look.

And then he moved while taking a photo, how professional !

1. mafia.guru3d.com is the forums server
2. godfather.guru3d.com is the primary content server responsible for all news, articles and ads.
3. soprano.guru3d.com is the database server
4. scarface.guru3d is the CMS server for the download section

Now before you start emailing me .. yes we have this mob theme going on. I don't know how it started, I'm just a big fan of the Godfather and that expanded somehow.  You'll notice that all staff in the forums named after Don's, the equipment is all named after something mob like .. so hey .. that's all there is to it.

Pretty much all these servers are AMD dual-core Opteron based, have 2GB ECC memory and configured at RAID1 with mostly hot-swappable 150 GB drives. The mainboards of the Opteron servers (and this really was coincidental as I didn't even know that when I ordered them) are NVIDIA nForce4 based and are manufactured by Tyan. All servers have dual Ethernet 1000baseTX full-duplex.