Yup, here comes yet another ratdude pictorial. Grab your popcorn, as this one is fun! (aren't they all?).
Today's guest is a Dell Poweege 830 Pedistal server:
...That I bought for $20:
The good news: It inluded the keys for the lock. The bad news: it's is less than complete condition (mostly there)
It had 3 of the four HDDs with it:
I haven't tested them yet but presumably they're good (unlike the drives in my parents file server, which this machine will replace). OT: If you have a drive similar to these you'd like to get rid of (trade/sell), PM me, as I may try to get a 4th drive and caddy (although I may just RAID 5 it and call it a day).
If those drives are stock, for a late model P4/Pentium D this system is awful new; as we'll see the RAID card is somewhat recent too.
It originally ran Server 2003:
The inside was, well, a mess:
Everything is there, minus the Raid's BBU (which probably was never there but at $15 a pop Genuine used, I'll snare one) and some (I2C?) 5 or so wire cable between the SAS caddy and the card it's all there; It will need a new CPU latch (as one is busted, hence why the heatsink is on the ground)... Oh, and I totally dig the latched ribbon connections. Not even Supermicro and Tyan go that far! (although ususally there isn't room).
The CPU is a Pentium 4 630 (prescott 2M HT 3.0GHz) and it has a measly 1GB of DDR2 RAM. I have a 3.2GHZ version in the current file server (a repurposed emachine) and I have 8GB of ECC DDR2 (which supposedly is compatible) sitting that I may toss in... the RAM may be overkill for a file server though.
It had a couple kickass cards:
That's an LSISAS1068 SAS card... no BBU. I hear it's pretty spiffy though (shame it's using 72K drives)... 256M of RAM (ECC DDR2). I have a 512MB DDR2 module of the same type somewhere... good idea to swap?
And then there is the SCSI host card:
I have NO use for such a thing... but holy cow. Monster of a card (not HW raid though, I bet those are real monsters).
It wouldn't be a BCN post without a bad cap:
3 KZJ's, one blown. And it had to be a size/voltage/value combo I don't happen to have in my stash... and since I have to order stuff anyway, I'm not gonna hack in an 8mm.
Regarding the missing cable, the connectors are:
The PSU is a beast:
Score?
Questions:
1. I'll probably just get a replacement heatsink clamp... but if you know of any better compatible coolers, say so.
2. I'll probably do a fresh install of the OS (rather than clone my old install) and merge the specifically tweaked config files. Any suggestions on a headless (no GUI) linux distro? I was on Debian and it ran pretty well... I mostly use arch but IMHO that's too bleeding edge for this (too many updates).
Today's guest is a Dell Poweege 830 Pedistal server:
...That I bought for $20:
The good news: It inluded the keys for the lock. The bad news: it's is less than complete condition (mostly there)
It had 3 of the four HDDs with it:
I haven't tested them yet but presumably they're good (unlike the drives in my parents file server, which this machine will replace). OT: If you have a drive similar to these you'd like to get rid of (trade/sell), PM me, as I may try to get a 4th drive and caddy (although I may just RAID 5 it and call it a day).
If those drives are stock, for a late model P4/Pentium D this system is awful new; as we'll see the RAID card is somewhat recent too.
It originally ran Server 2003:
The inside was, well, a mess:
Everything is there, minus the Raid's BBU (which probably was never there but at $15 a pop Genuine used, I'll snare one) and some (I2C?) 5 or so wire cable between the SAS caddy and the card it's all there; It will need a new CPU latch (as one is busted, hence why the heatsink is on the ground)... Oh, and I totally dig the latched ribbon connections. Not even Supermicro and Tyan go that far! (although ususally there isn't room).
The CPU is a Pentium 4 630 (prescott 2M HT 3.0GHz) and it has a measly 1GB of DDR2 RAM. I have a 3.2GHZ version in the current file server (a repurposed emachine) and I have 8GB of ECC DDR2 (which supposedly is compatible) sitting that I may toss in... the RAM may be overkill for a file server though.
It had a couple kickass cards:
That's an LSISAS1068 SAS card... no BBU. I hear it's pretty spiffy though (shame it's using 72K drives)... 256M of RAM (ECC DDR2). I have a 512MB DDR2 module of the same type somewhere... good idea to swap?
And then there is the SCSI host card:
I have NO use for such a thing... but holy cow. Monster of a card (not HW raid though, I bet those are real monsters).
It wouldn't be a BCN post without a bad cap:
3 KZJ's, one blown. And it had to be a size/voltage/value combo I don't happen to have in my stash... and since I have to order stuff anyway, I'm not gonna hack in an 8mm.
Regarding the missing cable, the connectors are:
The PSU is a beast:
Score?
Questions:
1. I'll probably just get a replacement heatsink clamp... but if you know of any better compatible coolers, say so.
2. I'll probably do a fresh install of the OS (rather than clone my old install) and merge the specifically tweaked config files. Any suggestions on a headless (no GUI) linux distro? I was on Debian and it ran pretty well... I mostly use arch but IMHO that's too bleeding edge for this (too many updates).
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