This thing is old enough for a bar mitzvah. Using it in a production environment would be unwise. Using it in a development environment would be cruel. Give it to your worst enemy or take it to goodwill. Lee Reynolds Systems Analyst Principal ASU Advanced Computing Center GWC-178 480.965.9460 (Office) 480.458.7434 (Mobile) Have an A2C2 related question or problem? Just send an email to the following address detailing the nature of the question or problem and a service request will be created automatically: support@hpchelp.asu.edu -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Eric Shubert Sent: Thu 6/14/2012 9:23 AM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450 On 06/13/2012 09:11 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > On 06/12/2012 04:20 PM, James Dugger wrote: >> I have inherited a Dell PowerEdge 2450 and want to re-task it somewhere >> in my network running as a linux server. It was being used two months >> ago as a VPN server running Windows 2003 Server. >> >> Here are the secs: >> >> 2 - 866 MHz Pentium Processors >> Bus 133MHz >> cache 256 KB >> 2048 MB ECC SDRAM >> built in adaptec hardware RAID controller >> SCSI dual channel backplane - w/1 daughter card installed >> >> 4 - 3.5 hot swap drivebays > > Man, that thing is going to suck LOTS of power and pump out LOTS of heat. > > If it were me, I'd sell it on craigslist or eBay and use the cash to buy > a modern multicore motherboard, memory, and processor in a desktop case. > Seriously, for a few hundred bucks you can get a system that sips power > comparatively, has many more - and much faster - CPUs, and has as much > more more memory. > > I've given up trying to repurpose machines that old. The cost in power > alone over the course of a year makes it smarter to get rid of it. > > TC +1. Speed of memory/bus is a big consideration for a server. The bus speed on what you have is, well, pathetic. You can buy a new Fusion/Atom board that uses 1066ram for ~$100 that'll run circles around that thing. 8G of ram for one of these can be had for $30-$40. Cooling is a non issue with these, as they consume so little power. I don't know if these would fit the 2U case or not (they're std mini/micro though). Some of these boards have up to 6 SATA6 ports, so software raid (1 or 10) works nicely. -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- 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