OT: Compaq Proliant 2500 Servers - Any Value?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:14:14PM -0400, Allen Taylor wrote:
> Off topic but someone might be interested (and I did use a Slack disk
> for testing!):
> 
> A gent I.m working with has acquired some servers originally paid for
> with your tax dollars. They are probably heading for the landfill but
> I'm posting in case there is any interest in them.
> 
> Compaq Proliant 2500 (Qty: 9)
>    - 200 MHz Pentium Pro (two sockets, one installed)
>    - 128 MB ECC Memory
>    - Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 
>    - Raid card (brand/model unknown)
>    - no hard drives 
> 
> Compaq Storage System (U1 and U2, Qty: 7)
> -	storage expansion units (again, no drives)
> 
> I test a few of the machines. One would not boot at all. A couple of
> others hung while loading Insert (Knoppix clone). A Slackware 11 install
> disk loaded nicely to the command prompt so they should be usable as
> servers with the right drivers.
> 
> We.re clearing out a warehouse in Newmarket so these will not be around
> very long. If anyone has an interest in one (or more) please contact me
> off list. I will confirm but I suspect the price will be very close to
> or equal to $0.00.

Well they are just old x86 machines, and while machines capable of SMP
were interesting some years ago, today anyone can get a multi core
machine we a few hundred dollars that is 10 times faster and uses less
power and has 8 to 16 times the ram.  This is why I don't collect old
x86 systems at all, only interesting stuff. :)

You could save the CPUs and ram since there may be people that would
find that stuff useful as spare parts, although not very many systems
ever ran buffered ecc edo dimms.

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