So a friend of mine at Six Apart is offering to sell us some of their server hardware for relatively cheap. I think I may buy at least two of these myself and donate them, but I figured i’d post here first and see if other people were interested since it’s not all that old really. What would you guys prefer?
Here’s HW info:
"Whatchu want? Abe is telling me “$100 - $200” so give me an order and
I’ll get you a quote. Not sure what to do about shipping.
Simech iServ R200 – 2006 SKU0 (web)
SKU0 web/app
- 1U Dual Xeon® Server
- 64 bit Intel® Xeon®
- 800MHz FSB, Hyper-Threading
- Up to 12GB DDR SDRAM (4GB minimum by default)
- 2 (possibly swappable) SATA Hard Drives
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- 64-bit PCI-X Expansion Slot
o Any 1U machine in the DC that is a dual proc, 64bit
capable machine with a SATA drive (whether installed or not) is a 2006
SKU0.
o This is intentionally a large sweep to pigeonhole machine types.
what 6a hosts use this type?
- web hosts
- perlbals
- workers
Simech iServ R200S – 2006 SKU1 mail/app
SKU1 web/app
- 1U Dual Xeon® Server
- 64 bit Intel® Xeon®
- 800MHz FSB, Hyper-Threading
- Up to 12GB DDR SDRAM (4GB by default)
- 2 swappable SCSI Hard Drives
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- 64-bit PCI-X Expansion Slot
o Any 1U machine in the DC that is a dual proc, 64bit
capable machine with a SCSI drive (whether installed or not) is a 2006
SKU1.
o This is intentionally a large sweep to pigeonhole machine types.
what 6a hosts use this type?
- some old LJ worker hosts
Simech iServ R210S – 2006 SKU2 small DB
SKU2 small DB
- 2U Dual 64 bit Xeon® Server
- 64 bit Intel® Xeon®
- 800MHz FSB, Hyper-Threading
- Up to 16GB DDR2 Memory (8GB by default)
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- 6 SCSI Hot-Swap Hard Drives
- LSI MegaRAID controller with 256MB of battery backed cache
- 1 250GB removable SATA drive
- 3 x 64bit PCI-X Expansion Slot
- Redundant Power Supply
- HD layout (as indicated in megamgr.bin):
0 3
1 4
2 5
what 6a hosts use this type?
- DB: LJ global slaves
- DB: mogile DB
- squid hosts
Simech Rackform iServ Q300 – 2006 SKU3 sto
SKU3 sto
- 3U Serial ATA Storage Server (one or two controllers)
- Single or Dual Xeon Processors
- Supports 800MHz FSB, HT, and EM64T
- Up to 16GB DDR2 SDRAM DIMM (4GB by default)
- 16 Hot-Swap SATA Drives
- 2 Integrated GigE Adapters
- 6 PCI-X / PCIe Expansion Slots
- Redundant Power Supply
what 6a hosts use this type?
- sto (storage hosts that use MogileFS)"