So, back in 2004ish I made a new server. It was beautiful in it's time. Dual socket, AMD 285's with 4 GB of RAM on a Thunder K8WE (S2895), 12 500GB drives across 2 PCI-X buses making up a (soft) RAID 6 (plus a spare), and 4 Gb NIC's run into a single trunk. It was to be my home media/'anything I wanted' server. For some reason motherboards in my house tend to die so I wanted to make a server that was basically bullet proof.
4 Years later the motherboard flaked out. Same issue as 3 others, it would no longer run stable with cards in more then one PC(-X) slot. I still haven't figured this one out, but it doesn't matter much now.
A few months back I replaced it with a new lower power server. Right now I have the drives up on a barrowed motherboard to transfer the data to the new server.
Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with the old hardware. Any ideas?
4 Years later the motherboard flaked out. Same issue as 3 others, it would no longer run stable with cards in more then one PC(-X) slot. I still haven't figured this one out, but it doesn't matter much now.
A few months back I replaced it with a new lower power server. Right now I have the drives up on a barrowed motherboard to transfer the data to the new server.
Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with the old hardware. Any ideas?
