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They just game for FREE a Dell Power Edge SC1420 with two Xeon CPU,no ram no hard drives....what can I do with this server?
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lol - yeah I'll admit I was trolling with my reply.
But seriously I have been in charge of two data centers. One was 100% proliant and in the 8 years I ran the data center we didn't have a single...
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Can run WHS on it once you get some ram and a HD
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It has a Xenon, which is a server processor, it uses ECC ram, and likely SAS hard drives. Those are all server parts to me. The case, just might look like a desktop which means shit.
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Get some RAM, get a HDD or two, and set up a Linux box for file storage and perhaps a Samba server.
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:blowup::blowup:
Flamebait anyone?
Seriously, Dell provides enterprise servers for many companies. The low end stuff may be questionable, just as the low end HP stuff would be.
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O rly?
I just bought 5 of these to add to the datacenter. Show me how this is a converted desktop
http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-r720/pd
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lol - I love when people call Dells "servers". Proliant - that's a server, Dell, that's a converted desktop. Throw it away or make art out of it.
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It looks like 2gb of ECC ram costs about $50, A hard drive would cost probably at least that since its probably a SCSSI or SAS drive, of an older interface. I would not invest $100 in a machine from...
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tie it to a rope and use it as a boat anchor?
...or part it out on ebay. hard drives/raid controller will be among the most valuable parts of the server. I have several of these in my server room...
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Dang, kind of in the same boat. My company is recycling a bunch of rack mount servers. If they weren't so big, I would swoop these up in an instant.