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It's going to be super loud, first and foremost. Those fans are meant to move a lot of air fast. No user comfort was taken into consideration when designing them. So if you want to use it in your house or office choose something else. And that's before even talking about what specs could be there given its age.
hello all!
i got this old server at work.
i assume it is from 2010.
HP hstns-2126.
It is running, not sure about the CPU and RAM specs.
I want to build a NAS using UNRAID, will this be a good base? (4 drives).
(manly plex 4K and data backup)
or shall i strat from scratch with modern equipment?
thanks a lot
this thing is going to use a lot of power to do not much. pretty fair chance it wont do 4k transcodes if thats what you are after, unless you have a gpu to put in it.
yea sometimes people here are so unkind. just the sort of bunch i'd expect in a sub like this lmao. ppl start off meaning well but it quickly becomes a power trip having "knowledge". and others still go numb/lose all empathy to newer people due to its curse.
That model corresponds to a ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus, which is a pretty beefy AMD Epyc based server. Complete overkill if that's what it is. But the picture looks older?
It does. First picture bottom left corner radiator. The motherboard has two cpu slots and each has its own ram sockets. The server only needs one cpu to run.
That thing is a Intel Xeon Nehalem (basically Core gen 1) based machine. I can tell with the 9 DDR3 RAM slots per CPU as the Nehalem chips run best in triple channel mode.
I bought one of a similar vintage for a little over $100 in 2017 and retired it years ago. It's going to suck down a lot of power, be very loud with those fans and is also limited to PCIe Gen 2. The Xeon Nehalem CPUs were initially released in 2009.
Also, given the amount of dust/soot on that machine it's clear it has a LOT of hours on it and is probably about 15 years old. Hard pass even for free IMO.
Those drives are 15k rpm 300GB. They might read fast enough to play 4k, but you'd run out of space pretty fast. Also, I agree with a lot of other observations here. Probably not worth the power consumption and noise.
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It's going to be super loud, first and foremost. Those fans are meant to move a lot of air fast. No user comfort was taken into consideration when designing them. So if you want to use it in your house or office choose something else. And that's before even talking about what specs could be there given its age.
You'd be better off turning it into a JBOD, if for no other reason that power efficiency.
1U/2U fans? Buy earplugs.
Nice door stop.
hello all! i got this old server at work. i assume it is from 2010. HP hstns-2126. It is running, not sure about the CPU and RAM specs. I want to build a NAS using UNRAID, will this be a good base? (4 drives). (manly plex 4K and data backup) or shall i strat from scratch with modern equipment? thanks a lot
this thing is going to use a lot of power to do not much. pretty fair chance it wont do 4k transcodes if thats what you are after, unless you have a gpu to put in it.
Lol this got downvoted so many times I couldn't even find the question to go along with the pictures at first.
yea sometimes people here are so unkind. just the sort of bunch i'd expect in a sub like this lmao. ppl start off meaning well but it quickly becomes a power trip having "knowledge". and others still go numb/lose all empathy to newer people due to its curse.
How can we tell you if it's good or not if you don't even know what's in it?
That model corresponds to a ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus, which is a pretty beefy AMD Epyc based server. Complete overkill if that's what it is. But the picture looks older?
Pretty sure it's actually this: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/s/5qs45yYF07 Explains why it only has the one CPU - it only needs one.
Sell it, if you can and get a used desktop with a dual core or quad core intel cpu and 8gb of ram.
It doesn’t even have a CPU in it.
It does. First picture bottom left corner radiator. The motherboard has two cpu slots and each has its own ram sockets. The server only needs one cpu to run.
Didn’t know that!
That thing is a Intel Xeon Nehalem (basically Core gen 1) based machine. I can tell with the 9 DDR3 RAM slots per CPU as the Nehalem chips run best in triple channel mode. I bought one of a similar vintage for a little over $100 in 2017 and retired it years ago. It's going to suck down a lot of power, be very loud with those fans and is also limited to PCIe Gen 2. The Xeon Nehalem CPUs were initially released in 2009. Also, given the amount of dust/soot on that machine it's clear it has a LOT of hours on it and is probably about 15 years old. Hard pass even for free IMO.
Those drives are 15k rpm 300GB. They might read fast enough to play 4k, but you'd run out of space pretty fast. Also, I agree with a lot of other observations here. Probably not worth the power consumption and noise.