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Old 21-08-2007, 12:13   #1
LeperousDust
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Default Dell poweredge 1600cs what can i do with it? And some random switches/routers

I've been offered a Dell poweredge 1600cs for £30 seems to good a deal to say no to. After an inital boot up it's running one (boooo) 2.4ghz Xeon, with (only) 512mb ram.

I tried entering the BIOS to see what the hard drive is but i've got no idea at all, i assume it must run some sort of SCSI stuff i don't understand at all. Looks like a RAID kinda controller loads up in the BIOS but its too quick to check what the hell its saying...

The thing is bloomin heavy so apart from possibly having a backup PSU inside, i guess its just fully of hard drives (i cba taking it apart just yet).

If i buy this for £30 just to curb my curiosity, what the hell could i actually do with it? It has special connectors on the back i've not see before either, i'm guessing either something strange or just external SCSI (if you can even get that i don't have a clue).

I've got some switches and ADSL routers (ancient i guess) too now and they have some strange flat connectors on the too for setup i guess, maybe making them managed? I dont know, i'll take some pictures in a bit i'm popping out now.

Any ideas then?
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