Dell PowerEdge PII Server

AndyOcUK

AndyOcUK

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After some advice on best place to sell and what to sell it for - don't know a great deal about servers TBH.

Its a Dell PowerEdge Pentium II (Dual PII Board)
ATi Rage Pro GFX onboard
Dell SCSi set up inc SCSi card an 2 X Seagate 4.5GB Drives in RAID.
Huge PSU and case
DAT tape drive
CDRom
MODEM
USB Card

Needs some SDRam

Cheers :)
 
It's past it's prime though... By a fair bit.
I really think you'd struggle to get a worthwhile amount of cash for it. Maybe about £30inc if someone had a use for it.

We've got a Dual PIII Poweredge running NT for an old accounts program we use. In the next few months it'll be retired and recycled. Just not worth trying to shift it on for cash.
 
Ok.

Probably break it down then :)

The case is enormous - might be great for someone for a Water cooling/ Phase project :D
 
No it won't, as you won't actually be able to mount an (m)ATX/BTX board in it. They are very very proriatary.

Best bet, find someone who wants to do some test labs for server 2003 or similar. It'll run it with enough ram, but wouldn't be any use for a production environment.
 
paradigm said:
No it won't, as you won't actually be able to mount an (m)ATX/BTX board in it. They are very very proriatary.

Best bet, find someone who wants to do some test labs for server 2003 or similar. It'll run it with enough ram, but wouldn't be any use for a production environment.
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Nonsense - nothing a bit of Dremmeling won't sort - thats the whole idea of a modding project mate - some people even build their own cases so making something fit it kids stuff :)
 
The lowest spec server you can really expect money for these days is around a 1Ghz Dual PIII/Xeon with a couple of 36gig hd's and a gig or so of ram.

Anything less than that isn't worth it as old stuff generally tends to be inefficient and physically huge.
 
Is this a Real request? Sorry, but you seem like an intelligent guy - surely you know your not going to get anything for this!?

Or are you just asking to create a debate / windup?!
 
Rob7865 said:
Is this a Real request? Sorry, but you seem like an intelligent guy - surely you know your not going to get anything for this!?

Or are you just asking to create a debate / windup?!
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I'm asking because, as clearly stated in my OP, I know nothing about servers. It could be worth 50p or £5K for all I know! Do you really think I'd ask if I knew? Its full of all sorts of mad cards that I'm completely unfamilliar with.

All I'm after is some simple advice. Nobody has asked about boards, cards, drives etc. I wanted to find out more about it before I just binned it. It was given to me so I am still none the wiser.

bitslice said:
I'm sure I gave one of those away at work once,
maybe this is the same guy/server :)
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It isn't :)

K.C. Leblanc said:
Is it a blade server, if so I'd be interested. Westurn union ok?

This isn't a serious post, I was just bored, ok.
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Unbelievable:rolleyes:
 
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Everything is worth something.

Sell it to a mate for £40 or whatever, just don't expect much and I wouldn't personally faff about with trying to post it.
 
You don't deserve a flaming for asking.

But they are right, you'll get nothing for it. PII's are 1999 era technology - and servers tend to be quick to integrate new tech. Personally I think you wont get anyone to take it from you, let alone pay you for it.

Good luck with it though. (P.S. to get a rough idea of prices for second hand servers - give that famous internet auction site a look ;) ).
 
dangerstat said:
You don't deserve a flaming for asking.

But they are right, you'll get nothing for it. PII's are 1999 era technology - and servers tend to be quick to integrate new tech. Personally I think you wont get anyone to take it from you, let alone pay you for it.

Good luck with it though. (P.S. to get a rough idea of prices for second hand servers - give that famous internet auction site a look ;) ).
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Thanks mate - its nice to have a polite, constructive reply ;):)
 
If it was a PIII, you might get £30-40 for it, but PII, no. Probably lacks the most basic instruction sets. I have a home server built from a P-III 1.4 Ghz Tualatin and 1GB RAM. This will be a fileserver and backup server (when I get round to actually installing an O/S). They are good for power as the whole lot only needs about 80W at full load. Not sure how the P-II's are as I skipped that generation (and P-III even), going from P-133 to P4 1.6ghz :p. Slight step up in power...
 
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