Dell PowerEdge PII Server

AndyOcUK · 13 Nov 2008 at 16:30

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

AndyOcUK · 13 Nov 2008 at 17:10

Why, it works.... no Crysis Machine but perfectly adequate for storage with an extra drive added

AndyOcUK · 13 Nov 2008 at 17:50

Ok.

Probably break it down then

The case is enormous - might be great for someone for a Water cooling/ Phase project

AndyOcUK · 13 Nov 2008 at 18:41

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.

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

AndyOcUK · 15 Nov 2008 at 08:58

Curiosityx said:
Wouldnt bother, the modern Pc is significantly more powerful than the above setup.

Really?

AndyOcUK · 15 Nov 2008 at 16:20

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?!

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

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.

Unbelievable :rolleyes:

AndyOcUK · 16 Nov 2008 at 17:03

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 ).

Thanks mate - its nice to have a polite, constructive reply