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Also I wasn,t sure would this go under technical because it probarly is technical or is it general?
Okay the story goes I was at an auction and having money and a like of all things big and technical I bought a storage unit full of computer things and the problem is I have no idea what they are. So can any of you guys help me with working out what they are. The link below is just to some of the photos I took any help would be helpfull as I'm trying to get my money back to buy parts for non exsistant bot and badly needing upgrading computer.thanks
http://four.fsphost.com/cerberus3112 _________________ A journey of a million miles begins with a single step followed by a hell of a lot of other steps so get walking
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Take better (readable) photos of the model name and number or ask google.
I've seen similair things at Auctions before. probably a 10 x 1gig SCSI drive server running Unix and a Dual Pentium Pro (Pentium 1.5) with 8 megabytes of triply redundant government certified Core Memory (or something like that).
They're very useful for making loud humming and whirring noises and occupying space in your computer room. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:00 pm
Valen Experienced Roboteer
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Make great things to IRC from too
i am getting a 386 up and running so i can out under clock somebody ;->
3 bogo mips man hang on to yer pants.
though i did up the ram to 8mb because i found a stack of 32 pin stuff _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:18 pm
leo-rcc
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DEC Digital Storageworks was once a reasonably major player but was bought out by Compaq years ago (which is now HP). So the hardware in there is at least 7-8 years old.
Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:18 am
cerberus3112
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okay where would I find the Model number because the server is covered in numbers there one on every part of the server?
and would you have a rough estimate about how much I should try and sell them or should i just scrap them for $50?
Also what would you use it for besides humming ,whirring and taking up space which it is already doing? _________________ A journey of a million miles begins with a single step followed by a hell of a lot of other steps so get walking
Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:12 am
dyrodium Experienced Roboteer
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Sounds perfect for some sort of film set.
*pictures 007 blasting apart server rooms* _________________ ( •_•)
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*Sometimes* they can be worth an amazing amount as scrap..
Whilst doing my engineering degree, our class was once left with an old washing-machine sized hard drive to scrap. We wpent the class arguing over who would get $2 big capacitors and funky switches and stuff, and left the stripped chassis like a car out of a movie, only to find out next class that the cleaner had taken the (heavy solid aluminium) chassis to the metal wreckers and got $200 for it.
Boy did we feel stupid.
Engieering techies out business-smarted by the cleaner _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:43 am
Valen Experienced Roboteer
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fire them up and see whats on the drives blackmail is a beautiful thing ;->
You could use them for a database server, if you use dbmail as a mail server you could put one table on each disk and have some fairly uber performance there. you do have 26 disks right? _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
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