No hits so far...I guess next I wiill try CraigsList?
-Charles
Charles Jones wrote:
> I posted this nearly 10 months ago, and still have them. At the time a
> few people replied, some of them obviously just wanted them to resell
> them, some for wrong reasons like "use them as a game server". I did
> have one serious inquiry but I was so busy at the time (I was suddenly
> responsible for the jobs of 5 people) I didn't get back to them and
> their voicemail got autopurged.
>
> Anyhow, I am looking to get rid of these servers. I can help roll them
> out to the elevator lobby but loading them up and taking them away is
> your responsibility. Here is my orig message:
>
> 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.
>
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