Scheduled Server Downtime: 20th of February 2013
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:38 am
The server upgrade is happening on the 20th of February. That is a Wednesday and it will begin early (9am) when most of you will be at school or work.
During this time the server is going to be completely cleaned and have all of its fans replaced. It will also be receiving a Motherboard, CPU and Solid State Disk upgrade.
The plan is to have the server back online no later than 3 PM on the same day. But the sooner the better.
For those curious about the hardware upgrade we are moving from a Core i7 940 to a Core i7 3930K. We are moving from an Asus P6T6 WS X58 motherboard to an MSI G45-8D X79 motherboard. The SSD is changing from an OCZ Vertex 2 60GB to a Corsair Neutron GTX 120GB. We will not be upgrading the memory to 64GB on this date. I'm still looking for the right memory for this upgrade and so I'm delaying that aspect of the upgrade until March or April.
During this time the server is going to be completely cleaned and have all of its fans replaced. It will also be receiving a Motherboard, CPU and Solid State Disk upgrade.
The plan is to have the server back online no later than 3 PM on the same day. But the sooner the better.
For those curious about the hardware upgrade we are moving from a Core i7 940 to a Core i7 3930K. We are moving from an Asus P6T6 WS X58 motherboard to an MSI G45-8D X79 motherboard. The SSD is changing from an OCZ Vertex 2 60GB to a Corsair Neutron GTX 120GB. We will not be upgrading the memory to 64GB on this date. I'm still looking for the right memory for this upgrade and so I'm delaying that aspect of the upgrade until March or April.
