It's official! I'm a father!

[EULA]

I just became the father of three, 62.6 pound babies. They're Compaq Proliant 1600 Servers, outfitted with dual 300mhz Pentium II processors, 512mb ram, and five 9.1gb SCSI hard drives.

I'm considering running them as dedicated distributed computing clients (UD), with a secondary function. However, I'm not sure what else I can do with them...

I know I've broken the golden rule of not having any pictures, but I plan to put some up Tuesday. I was just so excited...

These beasts were destined for the junkyard until I volunteered to take them under my wing. I've only two of these in my possession at the moment, the third is planned to be phased out in a month or two.

Again, pictures to follow later...

 

[Wolfsraider]

Wow Nice

 

[Fardringle]

Those are some mighty heavy babies! I bet they're cute, though.

How is your wife/significant other feeling after such a dramatic delivery? Did the labor go OK or did she scream at you and tell you it was all your fault and that she was going to make sure you could never do that to her again? :laugh::evil:

 

[Coquito]

I think the mother had a c-section up to her chin.

 

[Woodie]

If you need some more of those 9gig drives, PM me. I believe I can get you more, at a very competitive price (shipping!). (You have the beige/purple handles drive trays, and the 1600s take 5 drives/server, right?)

 

[conjur]

Just don't tell them they're adopted.

 

[EULA]

Originally posted by: Woodie
If you need some more of those 9gig drives, PM me. I believe I can get you more, at a very competitive price (shipping!). (You have the beige/purple handles drive trays, and the 1600s take 5 drives/server, right?)

Expect a PM later... a couple drives are going bad, and I found out one of the servers only has 4.3gig drives...

 

[BadThad]

Get 'em crunching!

 

[Ken g6]

If necessary you could probably network boot some of them off another one.

How is the mother(board?) doing?

 

[Xanth911]

Ha! congrats.
I would love to have Quintuplets like that myself..
But i would settle for a ATI9700

 

[ProviaFan]

Nice. I'm sure they'll each make a great mail server, web server, and dns server (yes, your home network needs a separate server for each of these functions!).

 

[EULA]

I'm afraid if I set them close to each other, the floor is going to collapse! I'm waiting for a response from Woodie concerning some 9gig drives before I go setting em up...

I'm actually looking at upgrading the processors and adding some ram too... that e-harbor, or e-boatdock... that e-site has some nice prices...