Fished this monster out of a dumpster a few years back at work and always knew I’d probably do something with it, heard they make great gaming PCs but it’s so freaking loud I never even entertained that possibility.

it has 16x2.5" sata hdd bays, still has the iLO details and serial number card which I hear is uncommon for 2nd hand servers, hardware raid card because of the extra 8 bays and external scsi card.

my self hosting journy only started a few weeks back with a 2 bay synology nas and pi-hole (technically a few years with jellyfin on my main pc but you know …) so simple suggestions, preferably 100% local because I’m behind a CGNAT without ipv6 and it looks like a lot of work to deal with.

and if anyone knows what software is used on the SD slot and internal usb key, if anything, that would be great :) I’m assuming license keys for software or something equally unimportant because I’ve installed Proxmox to mess around with and it didn’t need them.

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    1 year ago

    The problem with these older units is that we have come so far in terms of performance per watt that the cost of electricity quickly makes them irrelevant.

    I used to run a cluster of Dell 710s that I was able to replace with a few M720q very cheaply off eBay and run the same workloads at less than 1/3 the power usage (even better at idle, since that really where these old units don’t do well).

    I have seen a few converted into DAS or drawers for a rack, but you’d have to already have a rack for that to be useful or worthwhile.