If some of you have seen, Topcat has a lot of 2TB WD green's floating around.
Today I found out what they came out of, and apparently I get to trade a less than useful IBM x3650 (takes a 4 post rack, I have a 2 post), two ancient 1u Supermicro blades,an AFT XM-5u card reader with 5.25" adapter, and some laughs at my expense for it.
And what is it? He didn't say, but based on some grainy cell phone pics, it is a Rackable Systems S3116! 16 SATA hot swap bays with 2 internal bays.
See attached manuals. It's a "custom" server made by SGI (who uses the "Rackable systems" brand) that has a Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro motherboard in it.
The bad news is it only has one CPU and cooler. The good news is I still have a pair of 2.6GHz Opteron X2's leftover from V3.5's death and revival and also a pair of dynatron coolers (which matches the one installed). I even have 8GB of DDR-400 that should max it out (that is, with the DDR running the full 400 and not 266). It's a server, yes, but I have the hardware, so why not?
It's the server version of the K8W's I've had all sorts of fun with, but with no AGP controller to give me hell, I'm set to jet.
The best part is it appears to be two-post compatible out of the box, so it's a great fit.
It will be missing the HDDs and SAS cables, but hopefully I can talk Topcat into leaving the 3Ware 9550 card in it as my spare 9550 only has 4 ports...
Unless Work calls, looks like a weekend trip is coming in a few days...
Today I found out what they came out of, and apparently I get to trade a less than useful IBM x3650 (takes a 4 post rack, I have a 2 post), two ancient 1u Supermicro blades,an AFT XM-5u card reader with 5.25" adapter, and some laughs at my expense for it.
And what is it? He didn't say, but based on some grainy cell phone pics, it is a Rackable Systems S3116! 16 SATA hot swap bays with 2 internal bays.
See attached manuals. It's a "custom" server made by SGI (who uses the "Rackable systems" brand) that has a Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro motherboard in it.
The bad news is it only has one CPU and cooler. The good news is I still have a pair of 2.6GHz Opteron X2's leftover from V3.5's death and revival and also a pair of dynatron coolers (which matches the one installed). I even have 8GB of DDR-400 that should max it out (that is, with the DDR running the full 400 and not 266). It's a server, yes, but I have the hardware, so why not?
It's the server version of the K8W's I've had all sorts of fun with, but with no AGP controller to give me hell, I'm set to jet.
The best part is it appears to be two-post compatible out of the box, so it's a great fit.
It will be missing the HDDs and SAS cables, but hopefully I can talk Topcat into leaving the 3Ware 9550 card in it as my spare 9550 only has 4 ports...
Unless Work calls, looks like a weekend trip is coming in a few days...
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