Ancient? Okay, I’ll shut down the business.

Holy cow.

looks as old as my dell PowerEdge 2850. they don’t make them like they use to

watch out. its Active!

Looks pretty neat and tidy for such an old server. Have fun with it.

I’m glad you posted this. I’ve got one too that isn’t working at the moment.

I have an old Dell 29xx something tower…sitting in my garage circa early to mid 2000’s that is fully functional, loaded with drives… and currently serves as a stand for a box fan I have to circulate air during the summer when I’m working out there.

Time to pull that active sticker

Fine, u don’t mind power consumption, how about noise levels?

I said it’s good to play with but don’t bother using it for a serious lab long term.

Yall used that thing at still?? Hope it wasn’t doing anything super important XDDD

> This was my works active server until a few months ago. Honestly bud your employer was incredibly stingy if those were just pulled from service. Look up the warranty details to see how they most likely expired sometime around 2009. I wouldn’t want to work for that company, those things belonged in a dumpster 10 years ago. Yikes.

I remember when I was young and poor (now just older and poor)… I would read about SCSI drives and always dreamed if I could have and use them.

But by the time I actually ended up having some machines with SCSI drives around 2010 I was incredibly disappointed.

Question, why would you want some old hot and power hungry server?

You should open a museum

For Retro stuff, is very good. Like tinkering with old OS, old standard etc.

Oh my this was their active sever in 2023 ? What OS was it running ? I played with these or Compaq G3 long long ago.