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
"i dont care about power... Unless you pay my power bill..."
But, but think of the children and your carbon footprint and all those greenhouse gasses using all that power will create...that impacts everyone. Lol /S
I have an old Dell 29xx something tower.....sitting in my garage circa early to mid 2000's that is fully functional, loaded with drives...... and currently serves as a stand for a box fan I have to circulate air during the summer when I'm working out there.
It is approaching winter in Northern hemisphere, so no better time I guess 🤣
For Retro stuff, is very good. Like tinkering with old OS, old standard etc.
I wanna stand up a netware server at some point but it's also kind of intimidating as someone over a decade younger than netware lol.
Oh my this was their active sever in 2023 ? What OS was it running ? I played with these or Compaq G3 long long ago.
Copper in those heatsinks is worth more than the server
> 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 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
looks as old as my dell PowerEdge 2850. they don't make them like they use to
Hey that’s not ancient don’t make me feel old, that probably ran ISA server as a firewall or something
Doesn't look active anymore, you should peel that sticker off
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It was very outdated and underwhelmingly performing even back then, can’t even imagine what use it’d be now rather than as a personal museum item
Yall used that thing at still?? Hope it wasn't doing anything super important XDDD
Damn... I really need to find a job that gives employees retired hardware...
Time to pull that active sticker
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? 😂😂
Question, why would you want some old hot and power hungry server?
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
Fine, u don’t mind power consumption, how about noise levels?
I said it’s good to play with but don’t bother using it for a serious lab long term.
Intel Xeon Processor 3.0 GHz/800 are 90nm, chips, today we are at 2-3nm, the CPU is almost 20 years old,
looks like you are the right guy in the right shop.
today we are at 2-3nm
The fuck are you smoking?
the truth, im writing this on a 4nm based computer
The first 380 with 64 bit support if i remember correctly
I get a lot of times some of this stuff is too old to really use in enterprise, but it still works for a lot of things.
I’ve still got a server running Ultra320 drives. It works, it’s reliable, and it is cheap. And it’s kinda cool to keep some of this old stuff running and useful.
When I first started when I work now we used to run these constantly, great servers I fired a motherboard with static once on these changing a ram stick out
Very cool older tech stack. I would rock that at the house, at least part time, just for shits and grins.
I had this exact model run for 12 years nonstop with zero failures.
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.
it's a classic.
I wonder if the big copper heatsinks are worth more than the CPUs
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.
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.
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...
Looks pretty neat and tidy for such an old server. Have fun with it.
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. :)
I'm glad you posted this. I've got one too that isn't working at the moment.
Remind me of one of my First fault. In the Morning i changed the raid Controller from a 5300 to a 6400 with mutch More Cache. Want to Speed the Mailserver for our 1000 Users. Ending in a Not bootable System and a downtime for 1 Main work Hours.
Wow
I remember when I was young and poor (now just older and poor)... I would read about SCSI drives and always dreamed if I could have and use them.
But by the time I actually ended up having some machines with SCSI drives around 2010 I was incredibly disappointed.
Just say no ...
watch out. its Active!
DL380G4... Christ man, just a gen off from the old school Compaq Proliant 1850R
These guys need a lot of juice.
I have one of those, still works!