[Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap

[Justin Richeson]

Well, just to post how it all panned out (if you're not on Slack/IRC), I'm
now the proud owner of a Dell r710 Dual hex-core 2.6ghz with 24gb ram,
iDRAC6 enterprise, PERC6/i...promptly changed to a PERC H200 and x-flashed
to IT mode and now have a full set of drive trays.  Still working on
drives, but I've got a start.  Got it on Ebay with no trays included and
the perc6 card for ~$214.

I did stop in to MER, but everything they had right now was SFF/2.5 as
well.  They did have some drive trays for my LFF server though.

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> Wow, that's a great deal!
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Rob Cook <rdjcook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Keep an eye on Midwestelectronicrecovery, they had HP Z workstations with
> > dual hex?core (6 core) Xeons, and 24Gb RAM. So 12 physical and 12 logical
> > cores, granted only 1Gb RAM per core but plenty of open slots. All for
> only
> > $200. I had no need for something like that but it was so tempting. They
> > are sold out however but they get stuff like that all the time.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:55 AM Justin Richeson <neomatrixjr at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > David - I've been meaning to get over there and see what they have, but
> > > since they're only open business hours....and I'm always @ work I
> haven't
> > > made it there yet.
> > >
> > > Scott - that sounds like it'd work great.  Plus 4u usually has
> > > bigger/quieter fans!  Send me a message off-list if you can with any
> more
> > > details you have on that?  If you can get any of the following that'd
> be
> > > great so I know what I'm getting into this time :)
> > >
> > > Brand: Penguin? White box?
> > > Motherboard Model
> > > CPU model(s)
> > > RAM Configuration (slots available, populated, RAM type/required)
> > >
> > > anything else...?  RAID card, use caddies/backplane or are they just
> > normal
> > > screw in/attach cable?
> > > any other useful info/pix would be great!
> > >
> > > --Justin
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I might have a machine for you.  It is an older model but perfect
> for a
> > > > storage box:
> > > >
> > > > ​​
> > > > Penguin Dual Xeon 3.
> > > > ​0​
> > > > Ghz/
> > > > ​8​
> > > > GB ram/ 16-Bay SATA Storage System.  This is a full rack mount server
> > > (4u i
> > > > think).
> > > > ​I upgraded to a box with beefier CPU and more ram, it is in full
> > working
> > > > condition.
> > > >
> > > > Yours without drives for $100, but you have to come ​
> > > > ​
> > > > ​get it.​
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