Sorry, butter fingers I hit send instead of return somehow.
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
(Only one channel is available with only 1 daughter card)
4 - 3.5 hot swap drivebays
Backplane is SCSI 80pin sockets and takes Ultra2, ultra160, ultra320 drives
Drives that came with it:
1 - 73GB Ultra320
1 - 34GB Ultra320
2 - 17GB Ultra160's
Case is a 2U Dell case with 2 power supplies - tied into a redundant board
Optical drive and room for one more 3.5 bay under the optical.
This rack server is a Tank. I know a lot of businesses that have used
these in the past on Windows server systems.
My first thought was a NAS server however to take full advantage of
hardware RAID I would need to find a second daughter card to take fully use
the dual channel backplane and controller it will work as one channel but
just slower. Also since the drives are 1 - old, 2 - small in size, and 3 -
different sizes they don't really lend much for a quality RAID. Buying
larger Ultrascsi disks (320 GBO) or higher is very cost prohibitive.
I could try and pull out the backplane add a PCI SATA controller card and
populate the drive bays with 3.5 inch SATA HDD's and use software RAID, but
I would be losing probably the most valuable thing on the system the
hardware controller and backplane system.
I have thought maybe of using it as a VPN server running OpenVPN and
setting it up as an edgerouter. I have installed a minimal copy of Ubuntu
10.04 LTS Server on it and it is running okay though there are times when
it boots into buzybox and gives me the initramfs prompt. I believe that
this is because Grub times out before the hardware RAID controller spins up
the boot drive.
Any thoughts/recommendations on re-tasking this beast?
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:20 PM, James Dugger <
james.dugger@gmail.com>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
>
>
> --
> James
>
>
>
--
James
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