EEVblog 1466 - Dumpster Dive Xeon Server
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- It's been a while since the dumpster has delivered a computer. Today we get a HP Proliant ML350p Gen8 xeon server. Does it work?
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UPDATE: There are 5x300GB and 3x900GB 10k RPM SAS drives, and yes one of them was setup as a spare. Looks like the 900GB drives were not setp yet. There was also a Windows Server 2016 recovery disc in the DVD drive, so presumably they reinstalled it from scratch.
so what does this mean Dave?? ur selling the parts or keeping it??
Dual Raid Arrays is pretty common, the odd drive could be a spare, it may even be the boot drive, or like it has failed and had dropped from the array and its probably stuck in a power up cycle.
The battery is the server is for the RAM on the Raid Controller to maintain transactions on the array in power failure situation. You also can get batteries on TPU/TPM security modules too.
This is a low end setup. Bare basics, Just been used as a Domain Controller or Router maybe even a bit of storage.
Very surprising seeing Drives left in it.
Salvage Wise, Fans & PSU are the only decent parts,
Server Fans are an ALWAYS for the parts bin. So bloody powerful for there sidze.
HP Server Power Supply's are excellent quality, alot of people make DIY bench Supply's from them.
The RAM may come in handy, Specially with being ECC RAM.
CPU: ebay or take it to bits.
Motherboard FTW, FTW being "For The Wall"
You could take the RAID section out from the case and use it to make your own Desktop Storage Areay, With a RAID Card that has External SAS and a long SAS Cable.
@@blitzwing1 not really true. For someone interested in setting up a home lab environment for IT, it's still a fairly modern server that will do a good bit of work. Parts are also cheap to beef it up, and it's massively expandable. Can turn it into a pretty nice Proxmox or similar host for very little $$$. It's all in that space/performance/price trade off.
@@blitzwing1 Where these shine is in expandability. Each CPU can handle 384 gigabytes of RAM and you get a gazillion PCIe slots. The included CPU and RAM are worthless but with a 20 core upgrade it will be _way_ faster than a laptop.
I agree that it's current config isn't very good for a storage server. For that use you'd swap out the drive cage and fit 18 3.5" hard drives.
You can get some 10tb SAS used on ebay for $99 that's what I'm running
6:11 - It's upside down because you're in Australia!
haha
The one drive which does not light up is probably set as dedicated spare and used in case of a drive failure.
this! been working with HP servers for over a decade.
@@fiakergulaschsaft I am quite sure the parts are sellable as there are plenty of these old servers still running and they need those things replaced time to time.
@@marcellipovsky8222 sure, didn't say anything different from that. hp servers are also hugely popular and demanded so that should help achieve above average prices.
Was going to say the same
Yes. Hot spare.
My last dumpster find was a Panasonic wj-nd400 network camera storage device loaded up with 7x2TB enterprise disks (1.2M hours MTBF).. It'll do me well for backups.
I was going to say, if I'd find such an array or server or whatever, I'd find a way to reuse the storage.
The HP Raid controllers are mega bits of kit.
Don't try this at work!
During a raid array rebuild (when all of your data is moving across the drives) switch the server off (don't close it down just turn it off) then remove all the drives and reinsert them into different physical positions.
At this point, the unwritten data that did not get to the drives is backed up in cache (backed up by battery or a super cap)
Say grace to the HP Smart Array gods :) then turn the server back on (accept the new array config) the server boots and the raid array flushes the cache to the drives & the rebuild continues.
Incredible!
Yes, and it even get's more incredible if you turn on SmartCache (SSD-level caching inbetween HDDs and up to 4GB RAM)
HP used to build these in Cypress, Texas even in 2013. I worked on the assembly line for HP servers during high school summers. They were all built to order custom configurations (BTO). I built severs for Facebook, AOL, Stanford and hundreds of other customers. We knew how to build all server models (40 or so). Was a great high school job. Once I graduated college, I became firmware engineer for HP iLO for a few years.
So since SATA drives do in fact work in the SAS bay what is the actual difference in using SATA vs SAS?
Built mine without drives and installed SATA instead then found out it needed SAS... ONLY after installing the OS to the Shadow Array and having created 4 VMs on the server, then I found some documentation on the SAS bay.
Small world, I worked for HP/HPE in Cypress from 2014 through 2021. I was a systems engineer in the R&D labs, right under the iLO lab on the 3rd floor. Mostly working with Synergy and C7000 systems, with the OA and FLM teams as well.
Awesome servers, we designed some custom ones for Dreamworks, Facebook and Microsoft for their Azure and Xbox Live networks.
I live in Houston, in Tanglewood. Where in Cypress were they located?
@@MrDoneboy Old Compaq Dr Center, by Louetta and 249. They sold most of their buildings around 2010 to Lone Star College, the remaining 8 buildings or so are the ones they were using until recently and moved now to Spring to the new HPE headquarters a few weeks ago.
@@MrDoneboy Literally right up the road is one of CISCO Systems labs that I helped cable some years back... LOL Texas seems to have many companies like HP, in Plano Tx, there is a massive data center for HP or it was some years ago, not sure what it is now no signage. Also, have a Mcafee offices group here too.
Hi Dave, the drive will be a spare.
Will auto add to the array if required, look in the array config under (physical view) and you should see the drive.
If you need any help with it drop me a line.
Indeed. On 16:49 it states: Spare Status - Position 5 - One Or More Spares Inactive
@@Troppa17 offline spare?
@@ZeroHarry Isn't an cold spare. Offline as long as no other drive in the array fail.
@@Troppa17 That means brand new, never used too?
@@pe1dnn likely - the drives should also have usage statistics inbuilt for hPe drives
I want 2 days access to that dumpster room. You have found more E-Waste in there than I have ever seen in multiple decades at multiple companies.
Yes, a bit suspicious...
I worked at the local community college for over a decade. That dumpster was a goldmine. Most memorable was the DEC rack that controlled the heat and A/C in the early 80s. I regret not taking the computer and hdd, but I still have the equipment rack itself. Btw typing this from the new-in-box Steelcase desk they threw out.
You would have to pick the right 2 days. I'm sure Dave visits frequently - but how often do you see him score something?
You should see the curbside hard rubbish collection in this area (I live in the richer adjacent suburb).
Although I haven't worked there, I have heard that many companies don't allow for publicly accessible dumpsters so that people don't buy new stuff (at corporate cost) to then take "old" stuff out of the dumpster. In my environment that hasn't really proved to be true and those dumpsters are a lot nicer so that a lot more of the still usable stuff gets a new life instead of ending on a landfill or at a recycling site. At the dumpster where I work there are usually no super fancy things in there (VGA cables, computers of the floppy drive era, CRTs, etc.) but once in a year or so there is a good chance of finding somewhat decent computers (5+ years, age usually). So it's not like there is expensive stuff getting tossed at a daily basis.
The motherboard, storage back plane, drives, and power supply will likely fetch a decent price if you were to sell them. A lot of IT. Admins run host boxes that are a couple generations behind in their home labs. I specifically know of one person who was looking for a motherboard for the rack variant of this server. He was looking at $250 US for a salvaged board. Hell, when I went to replace the storage back plane in My Dell t420 I think I paid something like $100 for the board.
250 USD for a salvaged DL380/DL360 motherboard is crazy, you can get the whole server for less than that. If he still needs the board I know a reseller who was considering scrapping one.
Not a bad find :-) The drives are 900GB 10K, pretty decent. The one drive which has no LED on is probably configured as a spare drive, it will only fire up when one of the others dies. The card with the battery connected is the RAID controller cache with battery backup (to prevent data loss if you have a write access to the disks while there is a power loss to the server, the raid card will keep the data in the cache and write it to the disks when the server has power again).
and how long does that power last.lets say if there is long term blackout like 48h+
@@hardscorerockkssss Technically, it does not actually keep the data in the memory of the controller - the battery backup lasts for about two minutes, and during this time the data is written to flash memory on the controller card. There, the data can be stored basically forever, until the server receives power again - then the RAID controller will see that there is unwritten data in the flash memory.
@@hardscorerockkssss dell quotes 72 hours, so HP is probably similar.
@@freibier What you said is what happens on "newer" (2011+) RAID controllers and most of these actually just use super capacitors instead of batteries which allow for long enough periods to write all of that data to the flash memory. Old ones did not do this and did not have flash.. since his is using a battery still I assume it was an old one but there's probably enough boot up info to look it up.
Anyone can look up stuff like "Adaptec Flash Module 600" to see, it looks like battery pack but it's super caps.
LSI's version is called "CacheVault"
@@gg-gn3re Well, it is a P420i controller which has a capacitor (660093-001).
I've salvage old servers for a cheap source of high quality 12v power supplies
What this thread needs is even more people saying that the one drive is probably a spare.
Dave might just haven't read it, yet...
Read my opinion but I can't be bothered to read yours. To be fair, some small blame goes to youtubes poor comment system.
Each fan pulls 44W, 11.5k RPM, over 120 Watts of fan power. The CPU pretty old 32nm and slow, Hexacore with 2.1GHz and a passmark score of just 9.1k from 2012. PSU and fans are a keeper. Those 10k RPM SAS drives, albeit slow usually go for a fair bit on ebay, especially with the caddy. (at least 30-40 bucks a pop)
Here in the UK these are essentially worthless because of how expensive our electricity prices have become. It's a shame, because servers like these are still perfectly usable, but it would cost more to run the thing for 3-6 months than it's worth.
I use q6600 as a daily so yeah ;)
@@danijel124 but why though???
Yep, this guy is of a vintage that has some decent resale value. For someone who is still running one of these new parts are way over priced so admins often turn to the secondary market for spares of things like fans, drives, risers, PSus and so on. CPUs and RAM are pretty common but for someone looking to get a bit more life out of their nearly 10yo dual socket mobo w/ only one populated socket, the secondary market is a good way to go. Drives are a bit tricky though, savvy buyers will know these likely have a high power on hour count and may be unwilling to purchase them. I guess that's what "Used" "as is" is for...
HP servers are usually picky about HP Drives, so they bring a tad more
They are worth a bit parted out still. Parts specific to the ML350P Gen8 are a bit difficult to find, Parts like the heatsink and power cables. My work resells servers.
One other thing you should explore is iLO. There's an extra ethernet port on the back of those machines, and you can connect over a browser and see all sorts of cool stuff about the machine when it's running (like a view of all the different temp sensors spread across the motherboard, a plot of power consumption over time, etc). There's an iLO option in the BIOS to configure it, and there's usually a pull-out tab on the front of the machine which I think includes the default password if you reset the password for the machine.
The iLo info was on the side of the server, you could see it in the video. They are great, i have them enabled on over 1000 Proliants that we look after.
Independent Lights Out is nice for powering the system on and off as if you were standing at the monitor.
for a server this is pretty young. it wouldn't be too hard to recover whatever was on that. whoever was in charge of that did a horrible job on 2 counts. 1. they could of easily sold it for a decent kickback on the paycheck. and 2. at bare minimum KEEP THE DRIVES. both a backup just in case you needed something and 2 security duh.
Agreed, while its not exactly cutting edge anymore I've seen much older servers than this still in use in production environments.
@@Okurka. exactly, could've
Those PSUs are worth saving. They can normally be re used easilly and often have a very high rated 12v output
SAS not SATA
Great find, had one of those in my homelab some time ago. Those drives are 10k SAS drives, those might be worth flipping on ebay especially with the caddies they are in. The rest is pretty much done. At least for homelab use there is newer stuff out there that is reasonable priced.
Yes caddies worth more than the drives, and the entire drive bay with caddies will go easily as a unit, with the drives thrown in, because those are no longer easily available, and they are pretty reliable.
@@SeanBZA These are 900GB!!!! SAS 10K drives. They're worth a pretty penny.
@marcus W You’re wrong, look at time marker 17:20, it clearly says 300 GB
There are 3 900GB and 5 300 GB drives according to the diagnostics in the ILO. these are 2.5" drives. The 900gb disks will still make 30-40 dollars i reckon!
Sell the drive carriers as they go for a premium.
Still watching, but the drives are SAS drives, and the battery is for the HP Smart Array Storage card (their branded raid controller)
There's a way around SAS :)
curious about that fire alarm system though, very interesting sounders. Would like to know who makes the system :P
same!
The thing with the battery backup is a RAID controller.
Yes, battery I for the dirty write cache
*drive says 900GB on it*
*dave looks at the model number*
"What's that, a 900- I don't know what size that jobbie is"
They are 900GB SAS Drives. expensive stuff
Power hog? Your PC probably has higher capacity power supply :).. I recently got used Dell R620 from Amazon. Probably around the same era this server was made. Mine had 2 CPUs almost exactly the same one as this server has. I upgraded the CPUs to 3GHz (20 logical cores each) and 128 GB RAM. I machined high surface area liquid cooling blocks out of copper, got a small motorcycle radiator, four Noctua fans, water pump and designed the circuitry to put it all together (fan speed control, temperature sensor on cooling blocks as well as radiator inlet and outlet). Liquid vs Air cooling is day and night. At 100% utilization (Prime95), I dropped the average maximum core temperature from 80.15 C to 49.80 C... Maximum any core ever got was 53 C and CPUs are rated for 100C... Fans are not even audible in continuous 100% utilization. I'm using the server for running custom AI on my cameras. Of course, it is nothing like having 4-8 GPUs (at $15k each), but costs MUCH less with tolerable performance; ~500ms vs 3.5s doing the same thing in Google Colab and my server, respectively. I would rather have GPU system but thanks to Covid, cryptocurrency mining dickheads and those grown-ass man playing games on PC to no end, it is not easy to find GPUs at MSRP. Everything is 3x the price. Even in ideal pricing, 2 GPU system would have cost around $2000 to put together. My server costed $800 including the upgrades. Now with the Ukraine situation, raw materials for semiconductor production will further strain. The world is going down to shit...
Yeah, Proliant G8 is pretty good already for power effiency.
Love these dumpster finds. Keep 'em coming. Great stuff dave 👏
same!
The battery is actually a super capacitor, which might be useful. It also has some space age looking mosfets under the heatsinks next to the CPU sockets. The power supply can be hotwired by soldering a jumper between two on the connector, and is a really good 12 v supply.
The usuage of SuperCaps only was used in that gen of servers. The next one uses NiMh again, which suprised me back then. (I heard that they had reliability issues on the supercaps.)
Wait! They may left a windows install DVD inside. Mostly because of that message "press any key to boot from DVD..." it's typical windows install dvd message.
I am from Poland and when I see what you find in the dumpster, I feel like Im in a third world country: D
That's because they are closed country, NO IMMIGRANTS so they are like IN HEAVEN LOL.
not a bad find!... all them drives are nice..even if they are small..
id say it would be a good system with a 2nd cpu installed...
It is not SATA drives, it is SAS drives. Far more expensive. The battery backed card is probably a RAID card.
Depends on the capacity (:
3tb sas drives are half the cost of satas
Those hd brackets alone are worth like $15 each
@@nixietubes _Used_ SAS drives are cheaper than equivalent SATA drives because fewer systems can use them. On new drives SAS is more expensive.
@@eDoc2020 yes but these are used drives haha
I’ve missed these videos, love the finds.
I remember the first large drive I owned was the talk of the town at 4GB, so it's odd to see people throwing away 900GB drives. I spent $75 for 4MB of memory... 4 megs! Now I've got 64GB... wow!
Those 12V 450 W PSUs are useful to recover. I have several of them at various wattages up to about 1kW. Easy to use, HP so reliable. The output can be adjusted a bit, e.g. to 13.8v.
The drive without a light could be a hot spare.
I'm so annoyed by watching what stuff you find in the dumpster.
Ill get an office in your building.
was literally looking at these on ebay:), they seem like nice units(LGA2011, 3rd~ gen..... ddr3)
sounds nice:)... my use case is multiple vm's(something in the direction of ncix's x gamers 1 cpu series but less gaming, the thing i like about this box is the 10 pci-e slots over the standard 7... more gpu's to passthrough); current setup is dual L5640, 192gb ddr3, 5 quadro k600's and 8x 1tb drives in raid.... till ddr4 is more nicely priced I'm limited to older gen at best **overall goal is multiple computers in 1 box:P
4.2T SAS storage? In the dumpster? What is wrong with people.
1 drive may be "hot spare" (stand by drive) which usually is inactive
There is a disk in the DVD drive!
No, it's a *disc* .
Those disk caddies are gold. The disks are not s-ata, they are SAS. The size of the drives are stamped on the front of the caddies. some are 900 GB and others are 300 gb.
I recently restored one of these, they're fantastic homelab servers. Worth hanging onto or selling if to homelabbers if you can. Shame it's bashed up a bit. Would love one to restore like that.
If you put back the clear air guide then the noise level will be even better.
When you are setting these things up for the first time, the fan noise can drive you nuts. It's only when you get an OS and proper drivers loaded that they slow down.
ProLiant servers do thermal management and fan control via the iLO firmware. No OS drivers required.
@@JohnDoe4321 That depends on the model. Ever set up a G3 or G4?
@@DaimlerSleeveValve Yes, I've used ProLiant's from G1 through Gen10. IIRC, firmware-based fan control started with G5. That was a long time ago. Any ProLiant that's still working is likely to have it. And thank goodness for that! I used to have an ML350 G1 next to my desk, and yeah, those fans screamed until the driver loaded.
You should have a look at the DVD drive, the boot screen suggested that there is a Windows installation disk still in there(The Press Any key to boot from DVD..." prompt).
There was!
👏👏👏
I come for "I've got no idea." because that is basically my technical level.
I'd keep a system like that. Its farly barbones but has a boat load of potential to be expanded for most use cases.
An with the speed control of the fans this thing would be worth investing in an using as a strage server or even a work horse if you upgrade the cups. Unlike slot of stuff today that thing can be left on 247 an asuming wendows dosent brick it self it will run happy doing that. Like the old Dell demention series computers.
Those things are actually farly conservative with power as they have to be built to energy standards that home or prosumer computers arnt held to.
Shouldn't there be a spare rodent in the skip?
18:13 "...have it as a wall ornament..."
That reminds me of mikeselectricstuff's video titled, simply, "PCB Wall".
That drive cage and trays is worth good dollars, even with the smallish drives. Probably be worth more to movie buffs if it was SATA. The backplanes may suit both or be easily converted. There may be some HP weirdness with those spinning LED indicators, but at worst the trays maybe sellable.
This calls for a fire alarm siren tear down.
Where are those Dumpsters? I would probably drown in it.
Now I really want to see Dave use a PC with a moose..
I run quite a few HP Gen8 servers. Even though it's around 9-10 years old, you might be surprised at how efficient it is. I'm guessing it uses under 100W while idling on the Windows desktop.
Without drives it's probably about 55 watts.
Does anyone here have experience with using these models? I have one, but having trouble with mine, and would love some help or advice!
I’ve been planning to upgrade the CPUs and do some other tweaks, and finally got around to spending some time on the machine. I went to all of the trouble of upgrading the CPU’s, only to realised BEFORE i do this, i have to run an update ISO prior to doing this. I admitted defeat, and replaced the older CPU’s in the server, to begin the process of properly upgrading the CPU’s, the way HP wants… :face_exhaling:
On restarting the Server, it posted with RAM an CPU, then proceeded with:
1611 -Fan 1 Missing
1611 -Fan 2 Missing
1611 -Fan 3 Missing
1611 -Fan 4 Missing
Fan Solution Not Sufficient
Critical Failure Detected - System Shutting down in 5 Seconds!
Now, on a bit of research (not that it was required, really…) obviously the error is pointing out that the iLO (Intelligent Lights Out , HP’s IPMI) hasn’t detected any of the 4 fans, and has shut down to stop overheating.
Many have posted this, but usually only pertaining to having 1 fan not being detected.
My case, ALL fans are not detected. The fans are, however, On, spinning, and the 4 fan lights on the MB are all lit up with a GREEN LED.
I’ve tried cleaning the contacts, swapping fans, even resetting the NVRAM… to no avail.
Does anyone know of what is happening? Have i missed something? Should i roll back the BIOS? is there anything else i can do, other than buy a replacement montherboard?
It just seems odd that all of a sudden ALL fans aren’t recognised, when before they were all working fine.
Appreciate any help here guys… thanks in advance!
Take a look at SAS drives interface. It has additional pins compared to SATA (for redundancy).
Those drives aren't SATA, they're speedy SAS jobbies!
7.2 TB of 10,000 rpm storage is nothing to scoff at, you could certainly flip those used for a pretty penny
Ah I thought all of them were 900gb, looks like half are 300gb
Still not bad!
That SAS drive cage and the drive sleds would go for $$$ on eBay! Lots of people looking to retrofit/upgrade their old kit to add 2.5" drives (like SSDs!) EDIT: Those G8/G9 drive caddies go used for ~$10US each . You could sell the 8 you have for $50 easy.
When it arrived on China, it'll be dismantled, some parts like chipset are reused for "x79" motherboards
I'm using that ML350p Gen8 as my main PC. I changed the fans against silent ones, which required me to invert the PWM-coding. (100% duty cycle means standstill with the default fans. Don't know whether it's for redundancy reasons if connections get's lost.)
Almost confirmed it's owned by a Chinese company, the style is very rough and careless.
I have two very similar working ml350e gen 8 (2x Xeon 2670) these things are tanks you have to be very mad and strong to throw them at the wall.
The fans are everything but silent. Powering it up would make your dopamine levels flow like crazy, just saying.
I love the Proliant servers. Too bad HP ruined Compaq.
I am amazed that this thing was discarded with the hard drives installed! That’s kinda not good.
And it boots to windows? Not not not good. Try and access SAM via USB Linux bootable USB drive and reset the password and look in the files to try and track down where this thing came from.
After we find out where it comes from, go there and slap whomever is the head of IT.
If only I could be a part of these...here I am still rocking a 2004 Toshiba laptop that has a dying screen and a limped graphics unit, and a 2006 VAIO that needs new set of RAM and a Core2 processor...maybe one time in the dumpsters over there I could get a decent rig...something like that could have helped our little dream of actually trying to make our own game
Did Warren Buffett watch this video before he bought 11% of HP yesterday ??? Only Berkshire Hathaway knows for sure...
Fans sound near as bad as my Zen 3 AMD system..... Those hard drives are SAS drives and need a SAS controller to work they will not work on a SATA controller. By the specs of that system it was a network attached fast storage server with 4 Ethernet ports and one out of band Ethernet port for maintenance/other work on the system Those Xeons can fetch a decent amount of pennies to the right buyer at the right time generally Gamers buy old multi core Xeons to build bargain basement gaming rigs and that card with the battery would of been a cache type card for the SAS Raid array for a power outage to keep the memory alive when it shut down and when the system starts back up it then writes that data to the drives as that is its fail safe guard.it looked like Windows 10 was its OS but I could be wrong there usually your the man with all the info for us to nerd out on but I work a bit with servers something that age that amount of ram single CPU definitely just a glorified enterprise level NAS hope that helps Dave my friend. My Ivy Bridge core i5 I use as a Linux server with a hypervisor to virtualise as a firewall too has 12GB Ram and 2 4TB Drives in it for my NAS system and firewall soon to configure the web and email server on it but running Slackware 15 and virtualbox I very seldom go over 3GB so I have over kill for ram even with samba running for the file share and smoothwall as my firewall any how you got a great find there some stingy gamer would cream themself over that Xeon but yeah if you want to use those SAS drives there are SAS PCIE controllers out there if you want to get one to use the drives.
Probably the RAID array has faulted and they didn't know how to deal with it so they thought, hey, just buy a new one!! What the heck..money is no object here.
Great find. Nice to see a dumpster video. Iv,e missed them so much.
What a lame "server", running only on one CPU and laughable 8 GB RAM … and on top, crappy useless windows 😂
IIRC the drives on those arrays have light pipes, worth checking those? I've worked with those servers for years and they've always provided excellent service either in the tower form or the rack units the boards are excellent and you get years of service out of them however they are thirsty for any sort of home use unless you really wanted them. I got myself a nice little HP Microserver Gen8 for home, the router sits on top and they're lovely little 'lab units' for this and that. Nice find but just parts I'd say. Thanks for the video Dave I got a kick out of this! (edit: now that I think about it maybe it was the earlier gen drives with the light pipes but it's been a while)
Had salvaged fans from a sunmicro server they were massive 8' fans over 100W each made by ebm-papst they are billiliant power hungry beasts would have worked well with solar panels.
900GB 10k SAS drives........those would be very handy.
I wonder how long will it take till he gets a dumpster Epyc server
Scrap the unit, keep the CPU, memory, fans, etc. Pretty wild that the previous owner left all the drives installed.
These ML350p G8s were assembled in Australia as per my unit. Sticker on the bottom where the handles are should say
Thing with the battery on it is a RAID controller :)
Hi Dave, You should donate it. There must be some HP fanboy who would want it. And it would be so awesome running with the clear plastic cover 👍
I just spent $800 on one of these, and here you are just finding it. Give me strength!
Boot from a password change CD and you can remove the administrator password. Whoever left their data on there might deserve a visit from the secrets police.....could have a data base with all sorts of private stuff.
You can buy a second CPU for it for about $10 on aliexpress
Damn, I just bought a Gen6 of the same Model. 200€ not free sadly
Sorry but it's Dell server solutions all the way for me. None of that HP rubbish!
Oh man, wish I could find just one of those in the trash.. my home server dreams would be complete. I'd run a proxmox instance then automate the mayo outta my house
i wish i found free servers,i would build my own private cloud and gain knowledge from it
Gen 8 still decent, I recently tossed a Gen 5 ML370 myself it's just too little horsepower for the power it needs.
It is in fact quite a small computer, compared to your mail opening KNIFE! 😁
I would put it in rack with other low spec servers and put it in the background of every video to look like a pro :)
This 6G drives go for 50-70$ each in a refurbished grade-A condition.
Grays online used to have quite a range of servers occasionally when large corporates were refreshing their fleets - sans storage (except for blank spares)
People who throw this sort of gear into the rubbish should be fined. If it can't be resold or donated for parts, it should at least be recycled, not end up as landfill.
get in contact with LTT Linus would probably help you remotely!
Ntpassreset download and burn to CD boot and boom you're in like Flynn
I don't think anyone has mentioned it yet but the non working drive is probably a spare 😆😆😆
O, nice, I sell such servers every day at work so if you have any questions I'll gladly help
the 'riser board' is external cache for the integrated P420i RAID SAS Controller with supercapacitor backup. Those 900GB 10k SAS drives could go for decent penny if they are in good shape. E5-2620 is pretty weak and worthless but with an firmware upgrade you could put Xeeon E5-26xx v2 series CPU in there for relatively decent performance. And of course making use out of the whole quad channel RAM. The non lighting up disk has probably burned out diode. Or maybe is configured as a spare.
The drive with no LED might be set as a standby spare. Depending on the card they may idle down spare drives
Too bad local laws forbid nice stuff like this to be found in a dumpster.....
Can you cut out the Building alarm sound in this video and capture use it next time you dumpster dive as a jokester ?