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possiblylinux127 , to homelab in I made a blog post about an old IBM server!
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Put it in storage until 2054? It is still young enough to be recent history.

I think it would be cool to figure out how to preserve the hardware. If you can figure that out you could make a time capsule and then bury it.

Krafting OP ,
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True, I hope i will be able to do that over the years!

riddlemeboner , to homelab in I made a blog post about an old IBM server!
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The CPU is an Intel Xeon from 2004 (yes, old Intel Xeons do not have model number, they are differentiated by the GHz number and the number of core).

So turns out intel never had a good naming scheme xD

… also 4G of memory, still more than my Pi4

Krafting OP ,
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Not really ahah!

Probably as powerfull as your Raspberry 4 tho.

FatAdama , to homelab in I made a blog post about an old IBM server!

I can hear that thing from here. We had so many of these damn things in the IBM lab I worked in. They got super hot too. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I weep for your power bill, lol.

Krafting OP ,
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Oh... you just remind me that I forgot to put thermal paste back on it.. (the server is actually on right know)

And it's not for 24/7 use, no worries for my bill ahah!

Taleya , to homelab in Installing some weird rails and a server in a rack ! A blog post by me!

Oh god i remember thise fuckers. Used to be ubiquitous on 1RUs in the early oughts

scottmeme ,

I still have a few pairs of them, they suck and use flipped 1u generics instead because it’s studded on the sides and can’t be fucked to buy a Dremel or something else to cut em off

The server is studded

Taleya ,

I can still feel that fucking residue from building a comms room in 2004 gyraahhh

litchralee , to homelab in Installing some weird rails and a server in a rack ! A blog post by me!

Nice job making it work!

This reminds me of when I installed my Dell m1000e blade server into my rack. As it turns out, the clearance behind the face of a 19" rack isn’t standardized, so a protrusion on the ears would have interfered. The solution ended up being an angle grinder to remove the protrusion, and then re-leveling my rack, since otherwise the holes on the server wouldn’t align unless the rails are absolutely plumb.

Krafting OP ,
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Thanks!

Angle grinder is quite an overkill solution, but I guess, when you have no other choice, you gotta do what you gotta do!

litchralee ,

It works, and that’s what counts lol

Btw, I noticed your blog post was titled “random rail story #1”. Should I infer that more rack rail-related blog posts will follow?

Krafting OP , (edited )
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Yeah indeed ahah

And yeah, I’m sure in the future I’ll find other weird server rails, and I actually have another pair of unused rails that I don’t know anything about, they are not sliding rails, just the “shelf” kind of rail. And I might talk a bit about it, even though there is a lot less to say about them (But rack mounting them is really finicky too it seems…)

The next blog post will be about an IBM eServer 336 that I got for free too, I’ll probably separate it into multiple parts (Hardware Review + Software Tests)

Edit: I just checked and there is a small HP part number sticker: 697305-001, and they are rails for the HP D3600 storage boxes! Well I know a lot more about these rails now

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