Okay here is my old home server. It’s too hot, loud and power hungry for me to use anymore when a modern intel nuc can beat it in performance but it’s a neat thing I’ve stashed on a shelf for a bit since moving my home lab vms to a laptop.
ESXI OS is running off a 32GB SD card installed on the main board
Hp proliant DL360 G6
Dual Intel Xeon processor L5520 (2.26 GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 60 W, DDR3-1066, HT Turbo 1/1/2/2) (8 cores total)
8x 4GB DDR3 (32GB total)
It’s got a 100gb ssd and a 320gb SAS drive and a whole 512mb of cache on its onboard raid controller.
I have a few other machines I’ll dig up at some point this one was just the easiest to drag off the shelf in the garage.
FYI it sounds like a fighter jet when booting up. I’ve considered modding it to take quieter fans or mounting the board to plywood and putting a massive cooling fan over it to reduce noise but I just can’t be bothered
in other words, I’ve built many many many servers but this one’s mine.
Oh now that’s a beauty! I rarely handle servers because I’m comically bad at understanding servers, but I do love a good Proliant. I’ve poked around a few and I always come away wishing other computers were that easy to work on.
Of course digging it out means wife has seen it and questioned why I still have it. So it’s probably on its way to a new home soon. I’ll post it on my local buy nothing site see if anyone wants it for a school project or tinkering or something
Amazing how quickly tech becomes junk to the grand scheme. To think a $10,000 server is now just a fun exercise in how much power can I use in one box and can I max it out now that its parts are cheap?
Cool that you’re going to move it along so someone can learn about building and server maintenance. But also sorry for outing you! It was totally worth the look though. I’ve never seen so many sticks of ram in one place.
It had 64gb at one point (double the sticks) but I borrowed them from my own server for a companies server upgrade way back when I was consulting for and charged them msrp for the parts.
I have another server in pedestal form (aka workstation grade) from 2006 era and a more recent “gaming” system I’ve cobbled together.
The proliants like 2012 I think.
I’ll post those rigs when I have time and find them. If I find my old hub I’ll show that off too unless the wife trashed it already. My old homeland used to have some janky old stuff in it. Like I had us robotics 10/100 switches for my management network for a long time.
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Just to note back in the day this thing was like 20k but I didn’t buy it a customer did and when they upgraded and sent it to ewaste 4 years later I made it go away properly gave them the documentation and then pulled it out of the ewaste pile for myself.
Dug out my old US robotics switch and ubiquity edge router. The ubiquity is something I got before ubiquity was cool and used for my own home for years until 10/100 was just not cutting it.
The us robotics isn’t the oldest one I’ve owned it’s still a decent home lab switch with gig capabilities I just don’t need it anymore.
I used to have an old Nortel switch but I think the wife made me let it go.
I just gave the server to a high schooler that wants to build a Minecraft server for a class project. I told him how he could setup DDNS and reach it from anywhere and gave him a bit more gear. I figure he will learn to install an OS troubleshoot ram issues cause one of the 8 sticks is bad and I told him that but idk which one and rudimentary networking. Hope the kid enjoys the project.
