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Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.

There are multiple, physical components that are required for a computer to function. This is collectively referred to as the "hardware". The most notable components inside of a computer system is the RAM, Hard Disk (or hard drive), CPU, and Power Supply.

Outside of the case, however, hardware exists as well. Some of these components include the keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

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Best Hardware for Endian Firewall Community Edition

What would be the best hardware solution with 3+ Ethernet ports to install Endian Firewall Community Edition on? I am currently using a Jetaway mini-ITX enclosure with a Jetaway board and am not happy with it. I cannot boot the machine w/o the…
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Swap hardware on Centos5 Drive

I have a local file/development server running Centos5. The box's hardware is getting quite old, but the drive is still usable. I have a few extra boxes with better hardware (cpu, motherboard, mem, etc) which aren't being used. Could I simply stick…
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CentOS can I connect mobile and remotely from a laptop using another mobile connect to ssh or ssh -x?

Case: I placed one rack mounted server which has only intra-network activity (do not require any kind of internet access just for the service). Issues: But many times it requires remote access, in that case I need to drive from Belgium to Spain or…
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What kind of hardware should I be looking at to scale to ~20k users continually?

Let's say it's something like Stack Exchange that I'll be running (it isn't, but it's close enough to have similar resource usage), and I'll have approximately 20000 users from August to January (with many more after that time). The network this…
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RHEL/CentOS reassign scsi device letter

if I remove the physical disk associated with /dev/sdb and add a new disk in the same slot, it will be assigned /dev/sdc (or whatever the next available letter is). Is there any way powered on that I can reassign that new disk to /dev/sdb? Running…
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Hybrid disks in a server

Has anyone here tried using the Momentus XT Hybrid disks in a real server as balance between performance and cost? What were the results? I've heard desktop-focused reviews on both sides: a few cases where it made dramatic improvements, and a few…
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what should i do with an extra ssd disc?

I have this server setup: http://www.server4you.com/root-server/server-details.php?products=5 That gives an extra 60 GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD hard-disk. I don't want to use it as storage. What should i do with it? Can i use it like extra ram or something…
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Server diagnostic tools?

I have an Openfiler server that is misbehaving. Im looking for a bootable CD or similar that will tell me whether there are memory, RAID controller or similar issues.
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how to choose proxy server

I'm trying to determine which proxy server software I should use. The concurrent user base is about 1000 user. I'm guessing the Per Second Http requestis around 500. I've decided to use some hosting as a proxy server but I don't know how to choose…
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copy Linux server from one box to another

Possible Duplicate: Clone a working Linux server We have a Linux CentOS server set up to server a php/mysql web application. We would like to move this to a new larger server. It appears the best way to do this is to run the CentOS setup on the…
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server upgrade from mysql What do you think

Curious to get feedback on a server selection. the system will run mysql server, with roughly 80 machines accessing the server at all times (except night) > PowerEdge R610 Chassis for Up to Six 2.5-Inch Hard Drives > Primary Processor Intel® Xeon®…
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Server machine with two network cards

I have the following scenario. A server with two network cards and windows server 2003 installed. This server will act as a domain controller via one of its network cards; the other card has internet connection. I’d like to know if I have let’s say…
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Open VPN maximum client limit and hardware requirements

Looking to create a vpn server where clients can speak to one another. So far so good using OpenVPN. The question I have is how many clients can I have per server? We are looking to have several thousand clients at a time. What kind of hardware…
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Convert EMC AX150 to iSCSI?

I've to an EMC AX150 SAN, with two FC controllers in it. And no existing FC infrastructure. Since the controller cards seem to be modular (you can get 1 or 2 of them), is it possible to obtain iSCSI cards and replace the FC ones in that SAN to make…
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How do I update my Bios on an Intel S5500BC motherboard?

So i've just received an Intel S5500BC motherboard in an Intel chassis. I'm not sure how to upgrade the BIOS in it. First of all I have Windows 2008 R2 (SP1) installed. So I thought I might try downloading the Intel update…
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