This was my works active server until a few months ago. Going to fire it up soon and get it fully working like I did with the last batch of servers I received.

Last time a lot of you said dont even power it on due to power consumption, I do not care about the power costs. Unless you pay my bill, dont worry how power hungry it is smh

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    I get a lot of times some of this stuff is too old to really use in enterprise, but it still works for a lot of things.

    I’ve still got a server running Ultra320 drives. It works, it’s reliable, and it is cheap. And it’s kinda cool to keep some of this old stuff running and useful.

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    > This was my works active server until a few months ago. Honestly bud your employer was incredibly stingy if those were just pulled from service. Look up the warranty details to see how they most likely expired sometime around 2009. I wouldn’t want to work for that company, those things belonged in a dumpster 10 years ago. Yikes.

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    Very cool older tech stack. I would rock that at the house, at least part time, just for shits and grins.

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    Fine, u don’t mind power consumption, how about noise levels?

    I said it’s good to play with but don’t bother using it for a serious lab long term.

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      Unironically the fact that there aren’t far more computer museums than there are now is a travesty

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    When I first started when I work now we used to run these constantly, great servers I fired a motherboard with static once on these changing a ram stick out

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    Intel Xeon Processor 3.0 GHz/800 are 90nm, chips, today we are at 2-3nm, the CPU is almost 20 years old,

    looks like you are the right guy in the right shop.

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    Eh, I have a G8 and honestly it’s not cutting it anymore, it’s been relegated to EVE-NG on demand and otherwise sits powered off. Can’t imagine what use a G4 would be other than to increase the electricity bill.