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
DL380G4… Christ man, just a gen off from the old school Compaq Proliant 1850R
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
“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
These guys need a lot of juice.
I have one of those, still works!
The mix and match of 36.4 GB and 72.8 GB drives/carriers concerns me, traditionally a G4 server should be one or the other. The mix and match of Disk-1 and Disk-5 being different from the rest means either improperly labeled drives or someone has utterly lost their mind.
I also have to wonder regarding the absence of any 18.2 GB drives, though…a pair of those are *supposed* to be RAID 1 for the OS.
(I may have some unfortunate memories from this particular version…I think this was the last of the 32 bit servers from HP, and I hated it from the very bottom of my heart.)
One of the first I ever owned. Sniff.
maybe not as ancient as this but i accidentally said yes to a dell poweredge 1950 for free and now i have it in my room. untested but i know it has 16gb of ram and 2 4 core 4 thread xeon cpus