Playing with a server - decision?

[mrapoc]

Hi all

I have recently have a cockup with backups and such and have decided to set this spare server up as a backup server - mainly.

I have an old dusty eServer from a old job. I mean real dusty! So i was thinking about rehousing it into my old silverstone tj05 - but then i saw the hard drive mount in the server. Now ive never been near a server before..this may be normal. But it goes from IDE on the motherboard...to an IBM circuit board the length of the hdd bay. On the other side (where the hdds go) it seems like some kind of push in and connect system..although some kind of IBM fitting no doubt...some kind of hot swap?

Ideas on this?

I need to eventually have about 2tb of storage or so I dunno...just a bit of a project to back everything up and potentially turn into a media server.

Its this http://servers.alege...47-86474BX.html but with 1gb of RAM i've established so far and potentially two cpus

edit: seems its SCSI (thanks jim!) hdd options now limited?

original hdd apparently : 32P0726 IBM 36.4GB 10K Ultra320 SCSI Hot-Swap SL HDD

 

[equk]

Could you put a sata raid controller into it? (if u dont want scsi)

The pcie ones are pretty cheap and run really well (I got one 2years ago for £15 which is in a linux server)

U320 scsi was brilliant for servers back in the day

altho expensive

 

[mrapoc]

Could do man, i am thinking of sata drives either way (whether rehousing and using an adapter or what!)

but i've researched into what i got and they look like varying sizes of pci-x.

by the looks anyway - its all alien to me =]

apparently got :

1 32-bit/33MHz PCI

4 PCI-X 64-bit/100MHz1 AGP 8x

to play with...which would be the best interface for the sata controller (compatibility wise).

I wanna get some samsung 1,5tb drives in there

 

[tinytomlogan]

Whats it worth 2nd hand? Id honestly say your better off getting some thing newer, quieter and will drink less of the old leccy?

 

[deathwish]

i would agree with tom on this

get somthing like a nas box or low power pc with a raid card

 

[deathwish]

sorry my fail phone double posted

 

[mrapoc]

Not sure on how much its worth

ill disassemble it to see what i got.

not sure who would buy it tho?

 

[tinytomlogan]

Just nose around ebay, be surprised.

 

[equk]

You might be able to get some money for the components, I've seen the U320 10,000rpm SCSI drives go for quite a lot on ebay.

Not sure what the mobo etc is worth but some of the dual xeon mobo's were pretty good.

Depends on what you want to spend and what you want to run on it.

People seem to spend more than stuff is worth on ebay

can pickup servers and stuff cheap on gumtree sometimes for local pickup.

 

[mrapoc]

Say I rehouse the lot in my old tj05, get a nice efficient PSU..£70 or so. Sata controller...£20...PCI/PCI-X/AGP(?)

Then the hard drives. It would probably save some cash surely?

A low power new server would cost a lot more wouldnt it?

 

[tinytomlogan]

Say I rehouse the lot in my old tj05, get a nice efficient PSU..£70 or so. Sata controller...£20...PCI/PCI-X/AGP(?)

Then the hard drives. It would probably save some cash surely?

A low power new server would cost a lot more wouldnt it?

Probs would cost more, but you wouldnt have any worries with it for a lot longer would you dude

 

[mrapoc]

suppose so...

ill try listing it all on here, i cba with ebay tbh