[GLLUG] Free hardware

[Lachniet, Mark]

Hey I'm too lazy to do research and pull off all the cooling fans and stuff, but I can say that I have at least 2-3 functional motherboard and CPU combos that are fast enough to run decent Linux boxes.  They run Windows XP just fine.  Come over to my house and you are welcome to poke around at them.

The Dell servers are BIG and NOISY.  I think like 16U maybe?  or 12? .  The first is 2x650mhz CPU, the second is 4x700mhz CPU.  Both Xeon.  They both have memory between 2gb and 4gb (actually that memory is probably worth money).  Thus the CPUs have a huge amount of Cache, but a low clock speed.  Each one has like 3 power supplies, the ability to do RAID (but no rails for the disks)  They would be perfect for a web server that needed to have high availability - you could get a RAID 1 server set up with 3 power supplies in a day - but they would not be super fast.  I think I have at least one person who is gonna take the Dell servers.  The 9gb disk is just the only LVD SCSI hard drive I had laying around - I threw it in there and install VMWARE ESX on it I think.  Its not even properly mounted, just hanging there by a frayed SCSI cable but functional

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From: frank.dolinar at comcast.net [mailto:frank.dolinar at comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:35 PM
To: Lachniet, Mark
Cc: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Free hardware

Mark,
   I'm interested in knowing more about the motherboards, e.g. make, model, processor, with or without memory?
   And I may have a use for the Xeon server.  How big is the box?  Is the 9Gb disk part of that or separate?  How noisy is the power supply?

   Please advise.

Thanks,
Frank


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Lachniet" <mlachniet at analysts.com>
To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 12:57:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [GLLUG] Free hardware

I have some random computer hardware that I will give away to a good home.  A few working motherboard/cpu/cooling fan combos - generally Athlon up to about 1gig in speed.  Most of them need PC 3200 memory.  They all work.  I also have a big stack of black Dell CD-ROM drives (not DVD).  In addition a few misc. items if anyone wants to dig through my crap.  More ribbon cables than you can shake a stick at, old video and network cards, etc.  I also have some BIG A$$ Dell servers - including one Quad-core Xeon with 2gb of memory and a 9gb disk and three power supplies.  They are too big for my rack but they work.  I would sell them on ebay but the cost of shipping these beasts exceeds their value

Send me an email if you wanna get dibs on any of this stuff
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