Just bought a Dell PowerEdge 650 off a friend of mine for $100. It's a P4 2.4ghz w/ 1 gig memory and like....2 160 hd's. I have no real use for it other than it was cheap. Ideas?

9/28/2007 7:54:41 PM

folding

9/28/2007 8:01:58 PM

Folding is a good idea.

9/28/2007 8:02:39 PM

1) Sell it to me for $105.
2)...
3) Profit

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9/28/2007 8:42:53 PM

personal file server?

you can sell it to me too if you want

9/28/2007 9:23:50 PM

I was thinking file server at first but would have to buy a few enclosures for the hd's I have currently in my desktop or possibly just buy 2 500 gig drives to throw in this box.

9/28/2007 9:31:50 PM

omg put linux on it!!1

9/28/2007 9:40:55 PM

I thought about it for the free vmware.

9/28/2007 10:06:52 PM

Openfiler

I bought an old Dell Optiplex off pochacco and I'm running Openfiler on it. Totally rocks.

9/28/2007 10:11:55 PM

assuming the drives are scsi throwing more drives in there might get expensive.

9/29/2007 3:25:58 PM

use it to hack the gibson.



the password is god.

9/29/2007 3:35:09 PM

9/29/2007 3:56:07 PM

dude, openfiler is sweet as fuck

i am installing it now

9/29/2007 3:58:06 PM

I'm d/ling openfiler as well.



I think i might finally set a NAS up at the house.

9/29/2007 4:04:37 PM

I have all my shit shared out just through windows...it seems to work well enough for me.

9/29/2007 4:05:03 PM

i'm setting up a NAS with it too

i just got two awesome servers with 3 9gb scsi drives each

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this is pretty much the only thing they're good for

9/29/2007 4:05:59 PM

Agreed, I'm going to play around with Openfiler now, it's exactly what I've been looking for.

9/29/2007 5:08:53 PM

go fore the gibson


(p.s. the password is god)

9/29/2007 7:03:02 PM

^ clever.

did you think of that youreself?

9/29/2007 8:45:51 PM

I set up 7 CIFS shares with it.

Totally awesome because you can create logical volume groups to combine all of your physical disks into a virtual storage pool, then allocate volumes for each share from that. If you need more space for a volume, just move the little slider and click save.

I'd also recommend getting SyncBack (free). I have folders on my windows box that I mirror over to the OpenFiler every night using SyncBack. Never have to worry about backing up data again.

9/29/2007 8:46:19 PM