Love me some servers, not sure they like me as of late though?
I did a post on my Prolient 1600
Re: Proliant 1600 Barn (well shop office) Find
Since that post I added period correct options at purchase Namely
The LCD "Integrated Management Display" P/N 169338-002 (very sexy)
Compaq Remote Insight Board P/N 136344-001
Compaq RILOE 2 SP#232386-001
Compaq branded DDS-4 tape drive to replace the HP tape drive
and finally replace the AWE for a SBLive (just to give the thing some sound and wanted the AWE for another build)
Sadly last year it no longer powers on. Both the motherboard and PSU have been swapped with spares I had gotten beforehand but still nothing. I love this thing but it's big and heavy and with a move to Australia on the cards I think I may have to part this out 🙁
I also fully upgraded a ML350 G5 for a "ultimate Win2k build" after which it went back into storage then about year later complains that the onboard vrm is faulty.
ML350 G5 Dual X5460 Build
I've already stolen the CPU and ram for some dual CPU workstations and have a DL380 G5 sitting in storage that also be perfect fit for ultimate 2k build so the ultimate fate of this is unknown.
My currant main server is a Dell Poweredge R210 Winning Windows 2003, probably my most practical server (small, single socket) but doesn't really excite me which is why I haven't done my usual upgrade it like crazy like the others
Dell R210 My "New" Server, also it just turned 10!
I've also somewhat recently (last year) ranup a Poweredge 1950 with Win2k Advanced Server that I did some upgrading
Upgraded the CPU's to the max supported pair of X5365
RAM was upgraded to 32GB set in mirror mode (as Win2k only supports 16GB)
Purchased a Drac 5 card
The RAID card was dead, I salvaged a Perc6i card but this isn't Win2k compatible so had to buy a Perc5i card with the 256MB module
I didn't bother with the raid battery as really any of my servers only get minimal use so they will expire long before I get my use out of them, this does not make the server happy though 🤣
These are all used as "retro storage space" and not gaming. I like the idea of maxing out the OS's compatibles. anything earlier then Windows 2003 is easy as it cant tell the difference between core sockets, so the fact that say Windows 2000 sees 2 dual core CPU's as 4 isn't cheating in my book.
also have a few workstations acting as servers complete with Exchange and other associated server applications so I can play around with them
NT 3.51 /Backoffice 2.0 PPro build
NT3.51 Just turned 25 Today!
NT4 /Backoffice 4.5 based on a Dell Precision 650 workstation
Precision 650 Dual Xeon System
Windows 2000 SBS based on a HP XW6200
Windows 2000 20th Anniversary Client/server build
I've a number of other servers in storage, I'm lucky? working in IT I often get them for free as companies decommission them. It got to the point I had to draw a line at anything that doesn't support 2003 or older as I was running out of space. (and newer OS's don't interest me as a hobby)