[Wolves] Free: 2 x Compaq Proliant dual 550MHz Xeon processor 6u servers

[Kris Douglas]

On 25/10/2007, Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> We're moving offices at work so we're clearing out.
> Available at the moment are 2 x 6u servers.
>
> They're dual 550MHz Xeon processors with a GB or of
> RAM. They have redundant power supplies, although I
> think one in one of the servers is dud, hardare SCSI
> RAID arrays which are populated by 3 x 18GB disks in
> one and the other has 7 similar disks.
>
> They are 6u, so quite large (about the height of a
> small midi ATX case, about as wide as a regular ATX
> case and as long as a large one) and pretty heavy.
> They come with rack mounting rails.
>
> The one with 3 disks, powers on but doesn't seem to do
> anything so it may be a fixer upper. I'd prefer you to
> take both as otherwise they will end up in landfill.
>
> They are currently installed with NT4, but I guess
> I'll have to wipe them before giving them away
> (recommendations appreciated for the best way to make
> a disk's contents unrecoverable).
>
> There may well be more stuff to give away but nothing
> that interesting.
>
> Takers welcome, but you might need either an estate
> car with a large boot or a small van. We're based in
> Wellington, Telford so collection would be
> appreciated. I'm not certain they'll fit in my car.
>
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Ooh, I'm very interested. The best way to blank disks are to fill them with
zeroes, there are several utility CDROMS to do that.

I'd come and pick them up at some point, if you want.

Ta.

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Kris Douglas
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