Having been persuaded away from trying to recycle my haul of old consumer grade and non-ECC hardware I have been shopping around for used enterprise kit and found a listing on Craiglist for a Dell Poweredge 2850. Fairly old, but with dual xeon, 700w psu(s) and support for up to 16gb ECC I was wondering if it would work.
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* Two Intel Xeon's (Nocona) 64bit 3.00GHz, 1Mb L2 cache, 800MHz FSP, TDP 103W, VID Voltage Range 1.287V-1.4V.
* 8GB DDR2 pc2-3200-333 ECC Reg Server DIMMs
Details:
PSU #1 : Dell, Model # NPS-700AB A. 700W Max. Input; 100V - 240V ~ /10.1A, 50Hz - 60Hz. Output; +12vDC /57.3A, +3VsbDC /5.2A (Hot Swappable)
PSU #2 : Dell HIPOT, Model # 7000814-0000. 700W Max. Input; 100V - 240V ~ /10.1A, 50Hz - 60Hz. Output; +12vDC /57.3A, +3VsbDC /5.2A (Hot Swappable)
Riser Card : P/N U3480 Fox. 3 PCI3 PCIX 133MHz. Includes DDR2 DIMM Slot w/ MT9HTF3272Y-40EB2 Dell Ram 256MB PC2-3200R. 256MB, DDR@, 400, CL3, ECC, REG.
: Has two Fox Conn (SCSI Ports Labled A/B; A in use)
HDD : (DOES NOT COME WITH HDD'S!!!) Supports Six 3.5in SCSI Hotswappable Hard Disk Drives Up To 15k RPM.
: Comes With Six 3.5in HDD Hotswap Treys (SCSI MX-OH726-70920)
Has disk drive and floppy drive. Back I/O: 1 RS-232 com port, 1 VGA port, 1 Mouse PS2 port, 1 Keyboard PS2 port, two GB LAN ports, two USB ports. Front I/O: 1 VGA LCD Status Display
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I have 3x brand new 6TB Nas drives to install into simple a mirror right now and my current intent is to set up a storage server for my small home business. To my untrained eye this would appear to match the system requirements and include some nice-to-haves like psu redundancy. Does anyone have any opinions on how suitable this might be?
Headlines:
* Two Intel Xeon's (Nocona) 64bit 3.00GHz, 1Mb L2 cache, 800MHz FSP, TDP 103W, VID Voltage Range 1.287V-1.4V.
* 8GB DDR2 pc2-3200-333 ECC Reg Server DIMMs
Details:
PSU #1 : Dell, Model # NPS-700AB A. 700W Max. Input; 100V - 240V ~ /10.1A, 50Hz - 60Hz. Output; +12vDC /57.3A, +3VsbDC /5.2A (Hot Swappable)
PSU #2 : Dell HIPOT, Model # 7000814-0000. 700W Max. Input; 100V - 240V ~ /10.1A, 50Hz - 60Hz. Output; +12vDC /57.3A, +3VsbDC /5.2A (Hot Swappable)
Riser Card : P/N U3480 Fox. 3 PCI3 PCIX 133MHz. Includes DDR2 DIMM Slot w/ MT9HTF3272Y-40EB2 Dell Ram 256MB PC2-3200R. 256MB, DDR@, 400, CL3, ECC, REG.
: Has two Fox Conn (SCSI Ports Labled A/B; A in use)
HDD : (DOES NOT COME WITH HDD'S!!!) Supports Six 3.5in SCSI Hotswappable Hard Disk Drives Up To 15k RPM.
: Comes With Six 3.5in HDD Hotswap Treys (SCSI MX-OH726-70920)
Has disk drive and floppy drive. Back I/O: 1 RS-232 com port, 1 VGA port, 1 Mouse PS2 port, 1 Keyboard PS2 port, two GB LAN ports, two USB ports. Front I/O: 1 VGA LCD Status Display
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I have 3x brand new 6TB Nas drives to install into simple a mirror right now and my current intent is to set up a storage server for my small home business. To my untrained eye this would appear to match the system requirements and include some nice-to-haves like psu redundancy. Does anyone have any opinions on how suitable this might be?