Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:54:12 -0600 (CST) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Matthias Apitz" <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge r210 II Message-ID: <60906.76.193.16.152.1485640452.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20170128202103.GA1834@c720-r292778-amd64> References: <20170127144303.GA2706@c720-r292778-amd64.oa.oclc.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701272102350.23751@tripel.monochrome.org> <20170128202103.GA1834@c720-r292778-amd64>
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On Sat, January 28, 2017 2:21 pm, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, January 27, 2017 a las 09:16:18PM -0500, Chris Hill > escribió: > >> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> >> > The company I'm working for, decided to put some older rack mount >> > servers into dust bin and I'm saving a Dell PowerEdge r210 II with 16 >> > GByte RAM and 8 CPU of 3.3 GHz as my new poudiere oven. The server has >> > no disks (because they must be destroyed). I booted FreeBSD CURRENT >> > amd64 from an USB key and have below the dmsg(1) and ifconfig(8) >> > output, attached below. >> > >> > http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/PowerEdge_R210_Tech_Guide.pdf >> > >> > Any comments about this "project" and any ideas about the disks to >> buy? >> > Thx >> >> That looks like a pretty kick-ass machine. I hope you'll have it in a >> server room, or some place away from the general public; seems like it >> would be as noisy as a hovercraft. > > Re/ the noise, when I tested it with the USB booted system, it was like > a hovercraft on the power-on self-tests, Rackmount machines usually are that loud. This is how one of my servers got the name jet. Valeri > but nearly silent on boot. But, > I can imagine, when poudriere compiles on 8 CPUs the ports, if will cry. > I plan to install it in my cellar. The only problem there will be the LAN > access; my Wifi signal is not visible there, but the power outlet is > connected with my flat and I could use some PowerLAN adapters to connect > it to my network. > > I can not see 8 CPUs and 16 GB RAM thrown to waste. > > matthias > > -- > Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, ⌂ http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ > +49-176-38902045 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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