We all share specs, but never show pictures. Here is my 2U machine. Yes, it could do with some cable management...
Show us your BI Machine
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sebastiantombs
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Maybe next time I dust it out I'll take a picture. 
Flintstone61
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Mine looks like a dumpster fire compared to that.
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Flintstone61
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Oh wait thats the Dell. now I'm running the Hp Elitedesk g4 800 SFF. 
That rack is a beast, those things are bomb proof
Flintstone61
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University of Wisconsin placard attached to it. She's probably old school. Thankfully it has sturdy wheels!.
user8963
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Flintstone61
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Yeah. I cant find any photos of the hp. Its factory stock. No big deal. 24 GB ram, 2-3.5” drives,
whoami ™
Pulling my weight
I'm working on letting go of the Dell optiplex Im using now and building a 4 bay 1u with a ASUS P11C-I Mini ITX Server board.
Flintstone61
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Ok here's the real BI mess. I'm waiting to change out the nightowl/Costco recorder, with the BI friendly Amcrest XVR at work. I have purchsed an Amcrest series 4 POE to upgrade the remote garage. Along with 2 Andy cams, and a 5231 z-12.
So the Amcrest doorbell is the only thing on BI. I do use my home licensed machine to learn stuff. The Rack at work is more of an industrial setup. no points for being pretty on that.
This Optiplex might be enough for starters. 9020 MT 32GB Ram, Intel SSD, WD Blue 6TB.
but its my main home machine. I have 2 other optiplex sff i could dedicate to BI.
So the Amcrest doorbell is the only thing on BI. I do use my home licensed machine to learn stuff. The Rack at work is more of an industrial setup. no points for being pretty on that.
This Optiplex might be enough for starters. 9020 MT 32GB Ram, Intel SSD, WD Blue 6TB.
but its my main home machine. I have 2 other optiplex sff i could dedicate to BI.
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i9 9900k watercooled in a Supermicro 1u chassis, 4x 10TB spinners RAID 5 and 2x 800GB SSD's mirrored.
Old pic of the rack. BI system is in the middle above the 24 bay chassis. Currently the BI system is not racked, remodeling and building a small datacenter with dedicated cooling.
Old pic of the rack. BI system is in the middle above the 24 bay chassis. Currently the BI system is not racked, remodeling and building a small datacenter with dedicated cooling.
user8963
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Flintstone61
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hard to imagine a i9-9900k in a 1u space. But there it is. I thought a rack pc would have to be 2u for some components.
Nothing wrong with using RAID. This is the Intel RAID which is not great especially for writes but it is plenty to keep up with BI. As with everything, there are tradeoffs, gain redundancy but loose drive spindown, more difficult to move the array to a new computer, etc. For my usage, I prefer the redundancy over other tradeoffs especially after loosing footage to a faulty drive.
That's why I went with water cooling on this upgrade. I had been using 1u active heatsink in the last few builds on i7 8700k, i7 6700k, i7 4790 and E3 1275 v3. The system will probably change again in the future, I tend not to leave things as they are and I have a i9 10850k that will probably be demoted to BI after the next round of upgrades.
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