Man, I miss e-trashes at my former employer's office. :(
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not every day I find a file-server in the discard pile.
It's not every day I find a file-server in the discard pile.--
I have to assume that's what it is (was). Fully-loaded with six
hard-drives (four of them on a SCSI RAID card), and sporting parity
memory and dual (not dual-core) Xenon processors, the hardware points
in that direction. But I can only assume because - thanks to bulging
caps - I never got more than five boot-ups from the machine before it
stopped POSTing entirely. And I never did get the OS to boot in any of
those five attempts.
So it's no surprise this venerable machine ended up on the curb.
Still, not a total loss. The power-supply is salvagable, as is a
SoundBlaster Xtreme XiFi card (something every file-server needs ;-).
The hard-drives are probably salvagable too, but - being SCSI /and/
spinning rust /and/ only 150GB apiece, I'll probably toss them before
long.
It's a shame the machine died as I've never owned a PC with Xenon
CPUs. Still, I doubt I would have kept it anyway. It's just too big (I practically threw my back lugging the sucker home). And I did have
some fun futzing around with it beforehand, so I'm not too
disappointed. I'll claim what I can from the carcass and then send it
to the recyclers; a more noble fate than as curb-side discard anyway.
It's not every day I find a file-server in the discard pile.
I have to assume that's what it is (was). Fully-loaded with six
hard-drives (four of them on a SCSI RAID card), and sporting parity
memory and dual (not dual-core) Xenon processors, the hardware points
in that direction. But I can only assume because - thanks to bulging
caps - I never got more than five boot-ups from the machine before it
stopped POSTing entirely. And I never did get the OS to boot in any of
those five attempts.
So it's no surprise this venerable machine ended up on the curb.
Still, not a total loss. The power-supply is salvagable, as is a
SoundBlaster Xtreme XiFi card (something every file-server needs ;-).
The hard-drives are probably salvagable too, but - being SCSI /and/
spinning rust /and/ only 150GB apiece, I'll probably toss them before
long.
It's a shame the machine died as I've never owned a PC with Xenon
CPUs. Still, I doubt I would have kept it anyway. It's just too big (I >practically threw my back lugging the sucker home). And I did have
some fun futzing around with it beforehand, so I'm not too
disappointed. I'll claim what I can from the carcass and then send it
to the recyclers; a more noble fate than as curb-side discard anyway.
On Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:21:25 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not every day I find a file-server in the discard pile.
I have to assume that's what it is (was). Fully-loaded with six
hard-drives (four of them on a SCSI RAID card), and sporting parity
memory and dual (not dual-core) Xenon processors, the hardware points
in that direction. But I can only assume because - thanks to bulging
caps - I never got more than five boot-ups from the machine before it
stopped POSTing entirely. And I never did get the OS to boot in any of
those five attempts.
So it's no surprise this venerable machine ended up on the curb.
Still, not a total loss. The power-supply is salvagable, as is a
SoundBlaster Xtreme XiFi card (something every file-server needs ;-).
The hard-drives are probably salvagable too, but - being SCSI /and/
spinning rust /and/ only 150GB apiece, I'll probably toss them before
long.
It's a shame the machine died as I've never owned a PC with Xenon
CPUs. Still, I doubt I would have kept it anyway. It's just too big (I
practically threw my back lugging the sucker home). And I did have
some fun futzing around with it beforehand, so I'm not too
disappointed. I'll claim what I can from the carcass and then send it
to the recyclers; a more noble fate than as curb-side discard anyway.
Where the heck do you live Spalls, finding all this stuff?
Where the heck do you live Spalls, finding all this stuff?
It's not every day I find a file-server in the discard pile.
I have to assume that's what it is (was). Fully-loaded with six
hard-drives (four of them on a SCSI RAID card), and sporting parity
memory and dual (not dual-core) Xenon processors, the hardware points
in that direction. But I can only assume because - thanks to bulging
caps - I never got more than five boot-ups from the machine before it
stopped POSTing entirely. And I never did get the OS to boot in any of
those five attempts.
So it's no surprise this venerable machine ended up on the curb.
Still, not a total loss. The power-supply is salvagable, as is a
SoundBlaster Xtreme XiFi card (something every file-server needs ;-).
The hard-drives are probably salvagable too, but - being SCSI /and/
spinning rust /and/ only 150GB apiece, I'll probably toss them before
long.
It's a shame the machine died as I've never owned a PC with Xenon
CPUs. Still, I doubt I would have kept it anyway. It's just too big (I practically threw my back lugging the sucker home). And I did have
some fun futzing around with it beforehand, so I'm not too
disappointed. I'll claim what I can from the carcass and then send it
to the recyclers; a more noble fate than as curb-side discard anyway.
On Thu, 09 Feb 2023 21:57:05 -0700, PW
<iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
Where the heck do you live Spalls, finding all this stuff?
While my recent finds have been fortuitous, they aren't too unusual.
The population density makes things a bit easier but too often people
replace rather than fix, and throw out rather than recycle. But keep
your eyes open and you too can join the ranks of the scrounger ;-)
Anyway, I decided to pop the two 15000rpm SCSI drives into
period-appropriate hardware for testing and benchmarks. Tethered
together in RAID/0 - they topped out at 260MB/s sequential read. That
is - I was amused to find - 25% faster than the SSD card already in
that machine. Admittedly, that SSD was an ancient AData-brand drive
thatwas never top-of-the line to begin with (in fact, I have modern
HDDs that equal it in performance). Still, even a higher quality SSD
from just a few years later was only about 25% faster than those SCSI
drives. Pretty impressive for spinning rust.
Xenon? I think you meant Xeon. You are playing too much computer games. :)
FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fut9VSZaSz0 -- 10 years ago this
CPU cost $2614 - How does it hold up? The Intel Xeon E5-2697V2!
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