Reply 6500 of 53269, by Indrid Cold
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wrote:Got an IBM eserver X series 225 model 8647-4BX from the boot sale on sunday for £10. It's a massive heavy beast, nearly killed me carrying it up 3 flights of stairs. Dual Xeon prestonia's at 2.67Ghz, 1 gb of DDR ram, 5 36.4 gb SCSI hard disks (10,000 RPM). It seems to be working OK, although no OS is installed but goes into CMOS OK. It really needs a massive clean up as it is utterly filthy so I will post some pictures once that is done. No idea at the moment what i will do with it, it's is seriously loud, like a jet fighter racing a helicopter in a sandstorm, so not something I want running too often to be honest. I'm thinking media server is not it's calling! 🤣
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssia … h&language=enus
Any thoughts on what to do with the monster? I have no prior experience with server class machines, RAID or whatever, so keep it simple please folks 😉
WOW - this is a really nice little monster, congratulations. I own since a long time another IBM server model, eSeries x345 (Dual Xeon @3.2 - 2GB DDR Ram - 6x SCSI HDs, etc.) for rack mount. It's really loud and I think also high in consumption, but it is very interesting. Let me know how you'll use it, maybe I'll invent something for mine - also, you should have found yourself a proprietary IBM remote control board, to monitor the machine even when turned off besides being able to do other things.
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/d … ocid=migr-58359