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'
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