• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Server questions (just picked one up at a garage sale)

K

k1114

Golden Member
Grabbed me a PowerEdge 2500SC at a garage sale for $100. I feel it was a good buy looking at what these things go for, but honestly I don't know if I have any use for it. The thing is a single processor (although I can go dual via ebay for around $15-20) 933mhz P3 with four hot swap SCSI 18gb cheetas, and all the server niceties including the 100lb bigass server case.

Should I throw linux on it? Should I use a Win2k3 style os? The system has a valid 2k server 4cpu license and COA/book, but no disc could be found. Thoughts? What would you use this for? I could run a gameserver but I have a 512kbit upload so probably a no-go there...

Pics:

Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
 
Looking at ebay the cheetahas are rather cheap 😛 Seems they vary from $15-30ish with shipping. If I was really serious about using this box i'd probably buy another pair to have the whole six in use. Right now my raid 5 array of 4 disks comes up to around 50gb, if my calculations are right I would get around 75gb still (IIRC with 6 drives only one drive's size is used for parity)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top