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
I had this exact model run for 12 years nonstop with zero failures.
I wonder if the big copper heatsinks are worth more than the CPUs
it’s a classic.
There’s one of these sitting in our office right now. It was used in production and when removed a lecturer wanted it to show to students or something, so it spent years kicking about various classrooms and locations. It has since come back to us because… I’m not sure why.
Still fun to see it. :)
Copper in those heatsinks is worth more than the server
Oh my this was their active sever in 2023 ? What OS was it running ? I played with these or Compaq G3 long long ago.
looks as old as my dell PowerEdge 2850. they don’t make them like they use to
> 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.
These are cool. Used to be the workhorses of the internet - and a lot of other things.
OP what o/s are you /will you run on it?
I have just got a Sun v60x that has a corrupt version of Debian Etch on it. What do you think I should put on it?
Love your style :)
I have one of those, still works!
Oh, I has this one some 8 years ago, even built a gentoo on it, took ages 😅
It was very outdated and underwhelmingly performing even back then, can’t even imagine what use it’d be now rather than as a personal museum item
Remind me of one of my First fault. In the Morning i changed the raid Controller from a 5300 to a 6400 with mutch More Cache. Want to Speed the Mailserver for our 1000 Users. Ending in a Not bootable System and a downtime for 1 Main work Hours.
watch out. its Active!
Hey that’s not ancient don’t make me feel old, that probably ran ISA server as a firewall or something
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.)