This was my works active server until a few months ago. Going to fire it up soon and get it fully working like I did with the last batch of servers I received.
Last time a lot of you said dont even power it on due to power consumption, I do not care about the power costs. Unless you pay my bill, dont worry how power hungry it is smh
Very cool older tech stack. I would rock that at the house, at least part time, just for shits and grins.
looks as old as my dell PowerEdge 2850. they don’t make them like they use to
> This was my works active server until a few months ago. Honestly bud your employer was incredibly stingy if those were just pulled from service. Look up the warranty details to see how they most likely expired sometime around 2009. I wouldn’t want to work for that company, those things belonged in a dumpster 10 years ago. Yikes.
I must have changed 100s of system boards on these back in the day working as a field tech for HP. The disks make the best sound spooling up during post.
You should open a museum
Unironically the fact that there aren’t far more computer museums than there are now is a travesty
At work is an ancient, brand new in box, supermicro tower chassis with scsi back plane. I don’t know what to do with it.
Question, why would you want some old hot and power hungry server?
I love that! If you don’t pay my bills is not your problem how power hungry they run.
I have an ML370 G5 and getting it to run has been so fun.
People here are increasingly forgetting that it’s homeLAB not homePROD. A lab is for learning and experimentation, power efficiency isn’t really an issue as long as you’re learning something and having fun…
Damn… I really need to find a job that gives employees retired hardware…
If you get just a black screen when booting it’s because that server won’t have uefi. You’ll have to track down an os that has bios boot.
it’s a classic.
Wow, that takes me back. I ran one of those for years with the 18.2G drives…
Loud as hell, power-hungry as hell, super long boot times… but it was a golden time in my life and I kinda wish I could go back to. Right in the feels sir, right in the feels.
Wow, that takes me back.
Same. I still remember when I took the last one of these out of service at my job. It was a well equipped version and was fully populated with 300GB SCSI drives in a RAID-5.
Yeah, now I feel old. How did that become ancient? 😂😂
I had this exact model run for 12 years nonstop with zero failures.
Time to pull that active sticker
I had two of these sharing a disk array via fiber channel I believe. Always loved the aesthetic of the drives and their activity lights.