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Sure it'll probably need more memory at some point, but hey, awesome for a freebie. To be racked in the garage out of the way :) PowerEdge 1950 server, pair of dual core Xeons (45nm ones), 2GB of RAM, 4 10,000RPM SAS disks, redundant power, DRAC and 3 year warranty.
Holy mother of god. I don't even want to know what that would cost to buy. :shocked:
Dual Dual Core Penryn-based CPU, PERC RAID, Drac card, 4Hr service. On a server for home use.
Fair point on the 2GB, though I dunno what you intend to run on it. Might want to put a DVD±RW drive in there I guess.
Lucky, lucky, b*****d. You should have got me a free D830. I'm now going to hide in a corner and sulk. :'(
I've just bought one of those as a replacement ISA box!
Amount we spend on Dell stuff it's a shame I can't blag anything like that, but it's all done through our office in Holland so I can't do it.
Davey_Pitch
23-01-2008, 21:20
I hate you :p
Sorry guys, couldn't resist penis waving :D:D
The list price was scary for sure. It's Dell's end of year though and I had a good 25k to spend, plus they owed me a couple of servers after they shafted me in december (yes, there are actually two of those for free :o) - long story short - ordered two servers in december, next day I get an email saying 'buy one server get one free'. Hmm. Cue me moaning loudly at account manager and him promising to make it up to me. I'd never buy this sort of thing myself but for free who would turn it down? And already having a rack with rack mount UPS and switch is just ace for me :D
Not bothered about the DVDRW as I have that in the workstation anyway. Even if I have to buy memory for it later it's still a steal. I'm really like the cat who got the cream at the moment, Dee doesn't quite understand why though :o:D
Davey_Pitch
23-01-2008, 21:28
What are you going to use it for?
I'm impressed by the firm you work for, ours would use the freebie one, not give it away!
It'll either straight replace my current server box (Linux host doing VPN, file hosting, MDA and some other bits, Windows Server guest in vmware doing AD, exchange and media sharing to the 360), or I'll whack ESX on there and move the windows guest to it and virtualise another linux guest to replace what my current install does. In either case my current server box will become our new workstation (Dee's gonna start needing a lot more oomph for her photo stuff so this is good for her too), and my current workstation (the shuttle) will be broken down into bits and then who knows what.
[edit]Feek - to quote my gaffer 'the last thing we need is more bloody servers, you can 'av 'em'. Sometime soon we'll be looking at a pretty large blade deployment and a new SAN to back it up, so I appreciate the sentiment!
I, like Davey, now officially hate you. :p
Though I do have to reluctantly give you credit for the whole Europc thing.
They were great Europc. Would definitely use them again :)
Haven't had chance to have a play yet though. Imaging the disk so if I stuff it up I know I can recover. Looks like I'll just about get the whole 160GB disk onto a single DVD-R DL. Linux Live CD + dd + bzip2 for the geekery. Dunno if there's a better option (and don't you dare say Norton Ghost :p)
[edit]Feek - to quote my gaffer 'the last thing we need is more bloody servers, you can 'av 'em'. Sometime soon we'll be looking at a pretty large blade deployment and a new SAN to back it up, so I appreciate the sentiment!
Nice work. I'm on the blag at work because we're about to move our rack of terminal servers onto a big blade system. Sadly, the ones that we're currently using (G4 DL380s I think) will all go to DR.
I might get my hands on a G3 DL380 which I'll populate with as many processors and as much RAM as I can but it won't compare as it's old, Compaq and cream coloured, not new, HP and black.
Davey_Pitch
23-01-2008, 21:50
What's wrong with Ghost Mark? I use it in work all the time and find it fine :)
Damn you Daz!
Makes my 1U dual P3 Xeon box look a bit pedestrian, even though I do have 2Gb RAM the same as you and a pair of 146Gb u320 drives :(
I wish I worked somewhere that would let me blag such servers. :(:(
What's wrong with Ghost Mark? I use it in work all the time and find it fine :)
It's not free. Actually, I used Ghost 2003 in the past for systems (including the old D600). Been so long that I can't remember how I set it all up though (it was done with a bootable image so shove the CD in and it'll boot and restore). Suppose I could give it another go but I think I'd need to back up over the network which from DOS is nasty.
Stan_Lite
23-01-2008, 22:07
Nice Folding rig dude :D
Ain't that the truth, and in a relatively cool place too. :)
Shame about the lack of overclocking options though. :D
And extra power drinkage! He actually offered me Quad's but I turned him down - these'll be much friendlier on the juice when idle :)
And I use the same for imaging mark, expect I pipe it through gzip just because it's force of habit :p
Get another one for free and I will offer you a few quid for it! :p
Nice blag but I'd be selling it, then buy something less overkill for home use and enjoy the cash in your pocket.
Nice blag but I'd be selling it, then buy something less overkill for home use and enjoy the cash in your pocket.
Ditto, purely as I wouldn't have a clue what to do with it! :p
Selling it would be a bit dodgy and I'd never get it's worth anyway :)
Oh I'm sure, I just meant it from a "WTF am I going to do with this box"? POV. I could knock it off if I had to :p I'm just saying it would be wasted on me.
Jammy bastard. All I ever get to nab from work is some paper.
Haven't had chance to have a play yet though. Imaging the disk so if I stuff it up I know I can recover. Looks like I'll just about get the whole 160GB disk onto a single DVD-R DL. Linux Live CD + dd + bzip2 for the geekery. Dunno if there's a better option (and don't you dare say Norton Ghost :p)
Try g4l (http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l) if you're feeling lazy :)
Found that, but that seems to do much the same as I did. :)
Symantec seem to have taken a severe disliking to the name as well.
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