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

  • MiteeThoR@alien.top
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    2 years ago

    Eh, I have a G8 and honestly it’s not cutting it anymore, it’s been relegated to EVE-NG on demand and otherwise sits powered off. Can’t imagine what use a G4 would be other than to increase the electricity bill.

    • do-wr-mem@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Unironically the fact that there aren’t far more computer museums than there are now is a travesty

  • mar_floof@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Wow, that takes me back. I ran one of those for years with the 18.2G drives…

    Loud as hell, power-hungry as hell, super long boot times… but it was a golden time in my life and I kinda wish I could go back to. Right in the feels sir, right in the feels.

    • IceCubicle99@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Wow, that takes me back.

      Same. I still remember when I took the last one of these out of service at my job. It was a well equipped version and was fully populated with 300GB SCSI drives in a RAID-5.

  • micush@alien.top
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    2 years ago

    I had this exact model run for 12 years nonstop with zero failures.

    • do-wr-mem@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I wanna stand up a netware server at some point but it’s also kind of intimidating as someone over a decade younger than netware lol.

  • VaguelyInterdasting@alien.top
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    2 years ago

    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.)

  • Withdrawnauto4@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    maybe not as ancient as this but i accidentally said yes to a dell poweredge 1950 for free and now i have it in my room. untested but i know it has 16gb of ram and 2 4 core 4 thread xeon cpus

  • Elbie2727@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    DL370 G6 I believe I have. It’s currently running my home automation. Swapped the fans for a custom setup and tricked the ILO with an esp 8266.

    Works like a dream. Cost…nothing ✨ My favourite number 😎

  • xa_13@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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 :)

  • AnotherUserOutThere@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    “i dont care about power… Unless you pay my power bill…”

    But, but think of the children and your carbon footprint and all those greenhouse gasses using all that power will create…that impacts everyone. Lol /S

  • missed_sla@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    At work is an ancient, brand new in box, supermicro tower chassis with scsi back plane. I don’t know what to do with it.