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
Question, why would you want some old hot and power hungry server?
There’s one of these sitting in our office right now. It was used in production and when removed a lecturer wanted it to show to students or something, so it spent years kicking about various classrooms and locations. It has since come back to us because… I’m not sure why.
Still fun to see it. :)
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.
You should open a museum
Unironically the fact that there aren’t far more computer museums than there are now is a travesty
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.
I have 7 ML350G4 and G4p packed with 7 330gb scsi drives and maxed out ram. Got them running esxi 5.5 server 2008r2 and ubuntu server 20.04lts. Hoping one day someone will want to start a museum lol
Oh, I has this one some 8 years ago, even built a gentoo on it, took ages 😅
It was very outdated and underwhelmingly performing even back then, can’t even imagine what use it’d be now rather than as a personal museum item
Looks pretty neat and tidy for such an old server. Have fun with it.
it’s a classic.
These guys need a lot of juice.
DL380G4… Christ man, just a gen off from the old school Compaq Proliant 1850R
The mix and match of 36.4 GB and 72.8 GB drives/carriers concerns me, traditionally a G4 server should be one or the other. The mix and match of Disk-1 and Disk-5 being different from the rest means either improperly labeled drives or someone has utterly lost their mind.
I also have to wonder regarding the absence of any 18.2 GB drives, though…a pair of those are *supposed* to be RAID 1 for the OS.
(I may have some unfortunate memories from this particular version…I think this was the last of the 32 bit servers from HP, and I hated it from the very bottom of my heart.)
One of the first I ever owned. Sniff.
maybe not as ancient as this but i accidentally said yes to a dell poweredge 1950 for free and now i have it in my room. untested but i know it has 16gb of ram and 2 4 core 4 thread xeon cpus
DL370 G6 I believe I have. It’s currently running my home automation. Swapped the fans for a custom setup and tricked the ILO with an esp 8266.
Works like a dream. Cost…nothing ✨ My favourite number 😎