Dude, I used to have a stack of proliants, and I agree with Nick. Prolaint bios was... Special.
If you really want a low power cpu, get one of those c7 cpus, put it in an aluminium case, and you don't have to worry about all those issues that nick and others brought up. If you're worried about this affecting your wife, the radiation is inverse squared or inverse power of 4. The C7 is as low power as those PPros you're looking at, or possibly lower. Certainly all the other equipment you're going to put in - HD and power supply are better performing when new - older stuff are prone to leakage (old caps, etc). Another thing to consider - you can't look at single components, you've gotta look at the whole system. Older proliant are not UL certified for home use - ie, it leaks more EMR. Additionally. The video, audio and scsi cards all produce EMR. With the C7 (check out that $60 motherboard that walmart's selling), and a HD, you're done. If all you're going to need is 300G, just get a 300G HD and you're done - the whole system only has 3 components putting out EMR - motherboard, HD, power supply. If you put that in a nice aluminium case, and then ground that sucker properly, your wife should be happy with you. Compare that with a heat producing, inefficient proliant, with old CPUs that use more power (and hence, probably produce more EMR), with additional components, video card, audio card, one boot drive, one scsi/raid, one external case, additional (and expensive and high EMR producing) HD - at 36G, you'll need 10 drives, and the scsi backplane, I count at least 17 discrete components producing EMR, including power supply for scsi box. I just don't see how it can be better for your wife. And don't forget the noise. Proliants are *LOUD* suckers. Generally all servers are loud and will interfere with household appliances - for you, this seems to include your wife, though if you call her a household appliance, she might not be too happy with you :-) On 2/8/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:03:31PM -0800, Lord Sporkton wrote: > > All i can say is that i have a 1850R and a 5000, both of which run > > wonderfully so far with OpenBSD, the 1850 is duel pII 450 and the 5000 > > is quad pII 400, havent had a single problem so far. > > Did you have any trouble getting the software for setting up the scsi > raid card? Can the raid card be set up as JOBD, i.e. if I want to start > with just one or two drives non-RAID? > > Doug. > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
