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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 18 March 2016, 22:55:49
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So I've got a small home server I bought 4 years ago, messed with it a few times here and there and just got it out of storage were it has been for over a year.
The specs are as follows
HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer
AMD Turion™ II Neo N40L (1.5GHz)
AMD RS785E/SB820M chipset
Two (2) DIMM slots with 8GB RAM Installed
Embedded AMD SATA controller with RAID 0, 1
Embedded AMD eSATA controller for connecting external storage devices via the eSATA connector in the rear of the server
4 Internal HDD Support
Currently have OS drive which is 250GB and 2 internal 3TB drives with 1 External 3Tb drive
Forgot to mention I do have a DVD-RW drive installed as well.
Embedded NC107i PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter
Slot 1: PCI-Express Gen 2 x16 connector with x16 link (Have USB 3.0 card installed)
Slot 2: PCI-Express Gen 2 x1 connector with x1 Link
Slot 2-2: PCI-Express x4 slot for optional management card
Seven (7) USB 2.0 ports: 4 front , 2 rear, 1 internal
150 Watts Non-Hot Plug, Non Redundant Power Supply
It currently has Windows Home Server 2011 installed.
I just really don't know if it is worth even messing with this old of a system but I hate to see it go to waste, I'd like to do something with it.
Anybody have any good ideas or suggestions as what to use it for or what software to run on it?
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Perhaps use it as a seed box to seed Linux distributions or run a Tor relay node (relays are safe, exit nodes get issues).
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That looks like a reasonable rig. Supposedly, Windows 10 runs lighter and cleaner anyway.
A lean mean Linux setup would surely work well.
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I have the same server. Was tinkering with it today to see if I can install some more RAM on it. Turns out that it uses ECC which I don't have. All I use it for is a home file server and DLNA server (I use minidlna) and it runs Debian linux. It is running 24/7 for 4-5 years now without any issues at all. I am about to upgrade its disks soon. I plan to keep it as my home file server, as it lacks the horsepower to do anything more productive. In case you didn't know, there is a SATA connector on board next to the USB port which is for an optical drive. That connector also works with SATA disks. So you can install a small disk on that to install an OS (linux :) ) and you can use the other 4 bays for a RAID5 configuration with linux mdadm, since its BIOS only supports RAID 0 and 1.
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I have 2 proliant g5 each with 4 x7460..
Problem is power use.. they idle at 500watts because of the 4 redundant power supplies..
So.... if I pull out two psu, with only 2 psu running, it's still pulling 300watts doing absolutely nothing just sitting there..
How much power is ur system using.
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It's alive.