Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

[James Dugger]

Lisa, Thanks I have been looking into VMware, though I hadn't thought of
Citrix.

James, I will look into AZ State Surplus.

Thomas, I have a 42U rack and have the space for it.  However you are right
it is not very green.  I have thought of gutting it and keeping the 2U case
however I don't know if it is worth the effort (or even possible) to
retrofit it to work with a new face plate tom increase the number of drive
bays.  Probably would end up with very poor air flow anyway.

Thanks all.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Thomas Cameron <
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> 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
>
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