Here are some pics I snapped of the servers before I left work today. I shoved an office chair into the frame so you could get an idea of the scale. Note on any of the URLs yhou can s/sized// if you want to see a larger version. Rear view: http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/cellpics/DSC02099.sized.jpg Side view: http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/cellpics/DSC02098.sized.jpg Front view: http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/cellpics/DSC02100.sized.jpg As you can see, these are not something that you can just slide into the back of an SUV. I doubt that 2 men could pick them up to put them into the back of a pickup, you will probably need a truck with a ramp or liftgate. Note that the doors for the top portion of the cabinet are missing. I believe they got donated away with another shipment. The cabinets themselves require 220V power: http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/cellpics/DSC02105.sized.jpg However, this is mainly to provide a lot of power for filling it up with disk arrays. You CAN plug just the server into a normal 115V power source (with a normal plug). I have not powered them on yet to verify the specs, but here is an idea, based on eyeballing the installed boards, and the usual loadout of 2 CPUs and 2GB of RAM per board: Server 1: 8 boards = 16 CPUs, 32GB RAM http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/cellpics/DSC02106.sized.jpg Server 2: 5 boards (2 filler panels, plus 1 missing) = 10 CPUs, 20GB of RAM: http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/cellpics/DSC02101.sized.jpg Server 3: 6 boards (2 filler panels) = 12 CPUs, 24GB RAM: http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/cellpics/DSC02107.sized.jpg If you're curious as to what the boards look like on the inside: http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/cellpics/DSC02102.sized.jpg Heres a pic of the back of one of the servers: http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/cellpics/DSC02104.sized.jpg 2 IO boards with multiple SE and differential SCSI controllers, and FC interfaces. It looks like this particular one actually has a disk board installed in one of the rear bays, which means it can boot up by itself. At the time I didn't notice if they all had disk boards, but from looking again at the large rearview pic ( http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/cellpics/DSC02099?full=1 ), I believe they do, which is really nice in that no disk array for the OS is needed. Other random notes: * It looks like someone stole the fan module out of one of the enclosures, I will find it if I can. * One of the cabinets has some large scratch marks on one side (who cares, its a server cabinet and will probably be pressed against a wall or another server cabinet). * The cabinets do have wheels and they roll straight forward/backward fairly easily, once you get some momentum going :) * At least one of the cabinets has rackmounts for what looks like D1000 disk arrays in the bottom. Again, I cannot stress enough that this is some serious hardware, and even though they are only 400Mhz CPUs, they are 64bit UltraSparc CPUs, and 16 of them can be quite powerful. These servers were primarily used for Oracle database servers and they did the job well. This equipment would be WAY overkill for game servers or just to play with. I am hoping someone that otherwise could not afford them could make use of them for hosting some serious apps for their school or business. I will post the exact specs once I test them out. I'd prefer not to give all 3 of them to one person, and I would prefer that whoever takes them actually uses them, and doesn't want them just to sell them on ebay or craigslist :P --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss