Re: Hardware Anyone?

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:50 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote:
> > We recently decommissioned an old piece of hardware that (if I can figure
> > out how to ship it) we can donate to the PG project.
> >
> > It's a Dell Poweredge 2950 with 16 GB of ram, a 64 bit Xeon CPU (upgradeable
> > to 2), a single SAS drive (72 GB I think), 2 GBE ethernet interfaces, a
> > single power supply module (upgradeable to 2 for redundancy), and a remote
> > control module..  I think it has a RAID controller also, but am not sure (I
> > believe we had it booting off of an external storage device)
> >
> > It's a bug sucker, and has been sitting in our back room for about 5 months
> > now...
> >
> > Would this be useful anywhere?
> 
> I'm not sure what it would be used for at the moment (we just got some
> new boxes), but we could likely put it to use in the future, if we got
> another drive for it.
> 
> We could probably host it at our (EDB) offices in NJ if needed. Dunno
> if JD has Dell-friendly racks.

Well we could always shelf it but I am not sure what we would use it for
right now.

Joshua D. Drake


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