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

Kris Douglas webbox.uk at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 15:25:26 BST 2007


On 25/10/2007, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
>
> --
> Kris Douglas
>       Softdel Limited Hosting Services
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>       Web: www.softdel.net
>       Mail: kris at softdel.net


Am I right in thinking one of these boot? If not thats not a problem, but
just curious.

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Kris Douglas
      Softdel Limited Hosting Services

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