Google Stanford Hardware

The hardware...

300 MHz dual Pentium II servers, 512MB RAM, total of nine 9GB drives.
The main search used to run on these servers. The servers were donated by Intel.

IBM RS6000 F50 with 4 processors, 512MB RAM, eight 9GB drives.
The server was donated by IBM.

Three 9GB drives in left disk expansion box, six 4GB drives on the right (original storage for Backrub).
Attached to Sun Ultra II.

IBM disk expansion box with eight 9GB drives.
Donated by IBM.

Sun Ultra II with dual 200MHz processors, 256MB RAM.
Main machine for the original Backrub system.

Homemade disk box with ten 9GB SCSI drives.
See also picture below.

The wiring...