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 have one of those, still works!
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? 😂😂
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.
Very cool older tech stack. I would rock that at the house, at least part time, just for shits and grins.
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.
Time to pull that active sticker
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.
I just got two dual E5620 Xeon systems. Free hardware is always worth it because it’s not going to a landfill.
today we are at 2-3nm
The fuck are you smoking?
the truth, im writing this on a 4nm based computer
i see you are in intel land, in the dark, mr fuck
come over to arm land.
I enjoy having avtual performance.
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.
I had this exact model run for 12 years nonstop with zero failures.
Damn… I really need to find a job that gives employees retired hardware…
Question, why would you want some old hot and power hungry server?
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
Oh my this was their active sever in 2023 ? What OS was it running ? I played with these or Compaq G3 long long ago.
I wonder if the big copper heatsinks are worth more than the CPUs