I have received more ancient servers. This time a DL380 G4, SCSI version

These guys need a lot of juice.

Wow, that takes me back. I ran one of those for years with the 18.2G drives...

Loud as hell, power-hungry as hell, super long boot times... but it was a golden time in my life and I kinda wish I could go back to. Right in the feels sir, right in the feels.

I must have changed 100s of system boards on these back in the day working as a field tech for HP. The disks make the best sound spooling up during post.

Very cool older tech stack. I would rock that at the house, at least part time, just for shits and grins.

At work is an ancient, brand new in box, supermicro tower chassis with scsi back plane. I don't know what to do with it.

Time to pull that active sticker

Intel Xeon Processor 3.0 GHz/800 are 90nm, chips, today we are at 2-3nm, the CPU is almost 20 years old,

looks like you are the right guy in the right shop.

You should open a museum

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.

I had this exact model run for 12 years nonstop with zero failures.

Damn... I really need to find a job that gives employees retired hardware...

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

When I first started when I work now we used to run these constantly, great servers I fired a motherboard with static once on these changing a ram stick out

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

I wonder if the big copper heatsinks are worth more than the CPUs

Copper in those heatsinks is worth more than the server

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

It is approaching winter in Northern hemisphere, so no better time I guess 🤣

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.

I get a lot of times some of this stuff is too old to really use in enterprise, but it still works for a lot of things.

I’ve still got a server running Ultra320 drives. It works, it’s reliable, and it is cheap. And it’s kinda cool to keep some of this old stuff running and useful.

I had two of these sharing a disk array via fiber channel I believe. Always loved the aesthetic of the drives and their activity lights.

The first 380 with 64 bit support if i remember correctly

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

If you get just a black screen when booting it's because that server won't have uefi. You'll have to track down an os that has bios boot.

I love that! If you don't pay my bills is not your problem how power hungry they run.

I have an ML370 G5 and getting it to run has been so fun.

it's a classic.

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

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.

I have 7 ML350G4 and G4p packed with 7 330gb scsi drives and maxed out ram. Got them running esxi 5.5 server 2008r2 and ubuntu server 20.04lts. Hoping one day someone will want to start a museum lol

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

There's one of these sitting in our office right now. It was used in production and when removed a lecturer wanted it to show to students or something, so it spent years kicking about various classrooms and locations. It has since come back to us because... I'm not sure why.

Still fun to see it. :)

Wow

Just say no ...

Remind me of one of my First fault. In the Morning i changed the raid Controller from a 5300 to a 6400 with mutch More Cache. Want to Speed the Mailserver for our 1000 Users. Ending in a Not bootable System and a downtime for 1 Main work Hours.

Oh, I has this one some 8 years ago, even built a gentoo on it, took ages 😅

It was very outdated and underwhelmingly performing even back then, can’t even imagine what use it’d be now rather than as a personal museum item

watch out. its Active!

Doesn't look active anymore, you should peel that sticker off

Hey that’s not ancient don’t make me feel old, that probably ran ISA server as a firewall or something

I have one of those, still works!

The mix and match of 36.4 GB and 72.8 GB drives/carriers concerns me, traditionally a G4 server should be one or the other. The mix and match of Disk-1 and Disk-5 being different from the rest means either improperly labeled drives or someone has utterly lost their mind.

I also have to wonder regarding the absence of any 18.2 GB drives, though...a pair of those are *supposed* to be RAID 1 for the OS.

(I may have some unfortunate memories from this particular version...I think this was the last of the 32 bit servers from HP, and I hated it from the very bottom of my heart.)

One of the first I ever owned. Sniff.

maybe not as ancient as this but i accidentally said yes to a dell poweredge 1950 for free and now i have it in my room. untested but i know it has 16gb of ram and 2 4 core 4 thread xeon cpus

DL370 G6 I believe I have. It's currently running my home automation. Swapped the fans for a custom setup and tricked the ILO with an esp 8266.

Works like a dream. Cost...nothing ✨ My favourite number 😎

These are cool. Used to be the workhorses of the internet - and a lot of other things.

OP what o/s are you /will you run on it?

I have just got a Sun v60x that has a corrupt version of Debian Etch on it. What do you think I should put on it?

Love your style :)

"i dont care about power... Unless you pay my power bill..."

But, but think of the children and your carbon footprint and all those greenhouse gasses using all that power will create...that impacts everyone. Lol /S

Eh, I have a G8 and honestly it’s not cutting it anymore, it’s been relegated to EVE-NG on demand and otherwise sits powered off. Can’t imagine what use a G4 would be other than to increase the electricity bill.

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

Holy cow.

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

DL380G4... Christ man, just a gen off from the old school Compaq Proliant 1850R

> 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.