16 Oct
2014
16 Oct
'14
7:15 a.m.
Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2014 schrieb Alexandre:
Good to know! When I bought it, I though that I could use it as a regular computer, but
it needs 15 minutes before it gets to GRUB, just to do its power on self tests. After
that, the 8 big redundant fans makes it very disagreeable to use, plus the Ati Rage XL
doesn't show rage at all when it comes to drive today's large screens.
I'll try to sell it on Kijiji before this elephant makes a hole in the floor. :)
-Alexandre
LOL ... I'm happy I could get rid of that "server" stuff years ago. and they
had SCSI hardrives and big fat cables. I suspected the cases had to be that heavy to
prevent the units from taking off when the fans turn on in selftest :-)
Nik
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Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.
This
server is very fast, but I don't have much use for it.
I'd like to know if it still has a money value, and how much would it
still worth in production? I want to sell it, but I have no idea of what
could be a fair/good price for it. Could it be useful for this project?
I have a server similar to that one (IBM NetFinity) sitting gathering dust
I'm afraid. They aren't worth much these days; any savings in hardware
costs get chewed up in electricity in the first few months of operation.
Older Intel hardware is extremely power hungry; add to that the heat load
on the cooling systems in a datacenter and you have a server best used for
experimentation/learning. It's probably only worth a couple hundred
dollars at best.
Tim