I was gifted a Dell PowerEdge 2900, what are your recommendations for use?
I was gifted a Dell PowerEdge 2900, what are your recommendations for use?
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Heh, it’s a space heater so place it accordingly.
But it could be a box for self hosting… well, whatever you want that is lightweight.
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Would love to, but I need the right cables to show anything up on a screen. Tried what I got, but need to get some VGA cables and a compatible monitor. It runs, just can't tell what's going on with it
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Do you have a really heavy door that needs stopping?
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Recycle
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A modern laptop would probably outperform it for 1/20th the power. We had some of these at work and they’re DIRE. Outside of purely fucking around there’s nothing it’s good for.
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It's got 240GB of space, all I know for now til I power it up.
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I was going to suggest building a NAS, but a 7yo enterprise desktop can rival this thing in almost all features.
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I’ve got one and I think I might make it into an end table.