£1 ($1.37) IBM Server - Ebay Finds

[@JustCallMeHorse]

I brought a cheap HP server with 32 cores and 32gb ram and installed windows 10 pro into it without problems... using mine as a gaming rig :)

[@timrattenbury4768]

im actually thinking of doing something like that, was gpu support on the motherboard good?

[@JustCallMeHorse]

@@timrattenbury4768 running just a NVIDIA Quadro k600 at the moment, as the server I have is a HP Proliant DL385 G7 only cost me £120 including postage from Ebay

[@JustCallMeHorse]

@TsiG I brought it as buy it now, think the seller still has a few left..

[@JustCallMeHorse]

@TsiG mine has the 2x AMD 6282 Se 16 core

[@egg5474]

Mad man

[@therealchayd]

I used to work for a hosting company and we pretty much ended up chucking out (well, recycling) 5 year old Dell servers, once they had broken even and paid for themselves. The problem was that it would cost more in space and power to run them compared to newer, more powerful machines, and would cost more in man-hours and hassle than their value to list them on eBay. That might explain the scarcity of affordable servers on the used market.

[@llothar68]

It's not a big found, the big surprise it that this goes on EBay, usually the data center keeps them and recyclers can pick up for free and they put them up on EBay but with a huge profit.

[@mndlessdrwer]

There are a lot of companies where their method for removing servers falls under two categories: scrap or scrap for e-waste. Or at least this is the case with where I work. Scrap means that it may be getting tossed into a recycling plant further down the line, or it could be parted out or resold. We basically sell it to a third party for bulk scrap pricing, so they get to handle determining its final outcome. For servers that the third party doesn't want, or which we have found faults in that would make it non-viable, they get scrapped for e-waste and sent straight to a processing facility for such. We still have a lot of things leaving the building that I wish had be re-assigned to another development group instead, but at least the majority of it won't end up in a landfill.

[@flp322]

What a waste...

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I think you will find that there are brokers who buy up used servers in bulk including removal and such, saving the company running the servers, a lot of money.

[@Aaron_Ada]

The issue isn't so much the server itself, its the drives. Almost every place is going to require the drives be "wiped", and for busy admins its far easier to run a drill bit, than do a 7 wipe.

[@stephenhargreaves9011]

I'll give you £0.80 for it (is is now more used, after all).

[@GalaxyCatz]

I'll give him 200

[@johns3655]

@Dakota Butler ill give him 400!

[@elektronikzmbrtlar1586]

2 sausages and a cup of mayonnase

[@a_xylotl]

I'll give him 0.01 and a large Frozen Coke

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Congratulations on 1k Subs mate. Lets hope this video keeeps blowing up!

[@BigRhys02]

Almost 2k now

[@sorgenteinstabile]

@@BigRhys02 2120 now

[@MyPlayHouse]

Thank You for the shout out! What an AWESOME Server :-)

[@Emma__Smith]

[@xrsi89]

hmmm would make a decent dedicated server for space engineers........... to the bay!

[@pistonsjem]

Eh I highly doubt it

[@pietrocavicchioli6128]

@@pistonsjem why?

[@thelegendarywizard]

So that's what they've been running rocket league on for all these years

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

The flicker may be caused by camera and mains 50/60Hz mismatch. If you're in UK, set the camera to 50Hz anti-flicker.

[@matthew9690]

Adjust your frame rate on the camera it should stop the lights flickering

[@Dolphi107]

Or adjust the LED light frequency ;)

[@MarcusfotosDe]

Yes this is what i was thinking: If your Power grid runs on 50 Hz set your Camera to pal and choose a Shuterspeed that is a multiple of 25 (50,100,200,...)

[@LR-1977]

yea it should be 50fps instead of 60

[@Yakobu90]

Was going to say "Stop complaining about your superior 50hz lighting." But I found this comment.

[@CobsTech]

Definitely something I'm looking into, unfortunately I only have my iPhone for recording so I'll have to see if there's a better camera app available that supports changing the shutter speed until I can afford a proper camera. Thanks for the advice :)

[@MySmartHomeDomain]

These are nice servers. Just sold my X3650 M3 as I got started with it but have several M4 and an M5

[@whoknows8225]

I work with M4's, still today, they're not bad.

[@richardbertouche]

Nice find! I won an IBM X3550 M2 in Nov lockdown for £22! Slightly older model but 1U - 1 x E5540 2.5Ghz and 16GB RAM. I had 4 x 2.5 drives from laptop SSD upgrades, bought a 2nd CPU & Heatsink for £10 and is now running a home AdGuard + Home Assistant + OwnCloud server.

[@richardbertouche]

And now found your earlier video on this very server! (Had a day of toil and trouble today trying to upgrade/access/fix the IMM)

[@davidhaykus1568]

Yeah, I've seen these as well in this price bracket and the shipping comes out to about $52.00 U.S. dollars.

[@danw1955]

Hah hah, I recognized the front of that machine before you even mentioned the model! I have pretty much the exact same machine, but with 64GB. of RAM and 8 x 600GB. SAS drives. I initially paid a little bit more for mine ($179 US), but it already had 32GB of RAM and 2 x 146GB SAS drives. You can find parts pretty much anywhere for them (cheap), and they're pretty much bulletproof and relatively quiet once they get through the initial startup. I think the stock RAID card is a ServeRaid 5150. I'm currently using mine as a Plex Media Server running on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server, plus it acts as a web server for some financial apps and a phpBB forum that I'm playing with. Great machines and fairly easy to set up. I have the IMM tied into my LAN so I can access it with a web browser and start or stop it at will without actually having to go to my little server/radio room.😉

[@CobsTech]

Sounds like quite a good setup. If I had more spare parts I'd likely fill this up and possibly use it for a project or testing in future. I think it'll need some newer CPU's though and possibly a better GPU if I can find an x16 riser online that's not too expensive. Ubuntu is rock solid for that sort of stuff, have you containerised any of it with docker/snaps?

[@RealThore]

To correct the flickering you need to change the shutter speed of your cam and eventually change pal/ntsc depending on the power frequency in the UK

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

I remember when i bought a Qnap TS-251+ off amazon during a black friday sale a good few years back. Even though I have used ebay to buy lots of computer related stuff (im quite computer literate!) the idea never crossed my mind to pick up an older decommissioned/refurbished server unit from there.... I could have made quite a substantial saving! I remember i was looking at secondhand HP Proliant servers on ebay too! I have no idea why i never went for one in the end but i think it was something to do with the prices at the time. the cost difference between the proliant and Qnap were about the same. In any case, the TS-251+ is still going strong (i think i bought it 3 years ago???)

[@victorbart]

That is quite alot of packing for a cheap IBM1015! Awesome machine for the price 😁

[@youhackforme]

I wonder if the packaging was more than the cost of the sale

[@trueriver1950]

We saw its got virtualization when you were in the setup, so I'd be tempted to install Xen and then have domains for all the x86 operating systems imaginable. With all those cores and filling up the RAM slots you'd get reasonable performance on each. Or install Qubes (which includes Xen and a Fedora based management domain) as a quick way of deploying a Xen-based system which would also offer above average security. To my mind that's what a box like this cries out for... By the way, it's straightforward to use Win 10 on a user domain within either Xen or Qubes: which is arguably more secure than running win 10 more conventionally.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I used a DL580 Gen 5 with 64 Gigs of RAM and 4 x 6 Core (24 cores) Xeon CPUs for a while for virtual machines. It's fun, until you see the power bill. Thing slurped 700 Watts at Idle. I decommisioned it before my GF killed me, and tbh, I also thought it was a bit much..

[@jonjohnson2844]

£1 to buy, a fiver a day on electric.

[@BenjaminRonlund]

They're actually perfect for rooms that also need heating.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

@@BenjaminRonlund Yeah, besides the awful noise. Servers are real noisy beasts.

[@garrettvannorden7723]

how exactly did you find this for $1.37? teach me the ways

[@egg5474]

Just search for auctions ending soon + some people don't title their auctions particularly well and will put only the exact model number of what they're selling rather than generic terms that most people would be searching for, so very few people who'd actually be interested end up seeing the auction in the first place. It works best on particularly obscure things

[@james.matthews9]

You need to change the anti-flicker settings in your camera to 50hrz due to the power frequency we use in the UK. It is more common to see this with the leds

[@SerBallister]

Not sure it applies with LEDs, those flicker at higher than 50hz

[@jamesb1221222]

Sad part is local scrap yards here in MD get tons of newer servers (pretty much by the pallet), but they won't resell them even without hard drives. I've seen some of them less than a year or two old. Sad to see all those goodies go to waste.

[@marekful]

I think the flickering problem is due to pulse with modulation, the way modern LED lights reduce power output instead of modifying the current directly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation#Duty_cycle

[@felixfeliyfeliz]

I was a solid 12 minutes in until I realized this is not RandomGamingInHD...

[@fiveer11]

I would make a max upgrade video, that would be really cool

[@CobsTech]

I'll certainly look into it! Parts for these seem fairly cheap except the RAM. I'll have to see if I can locate an X16 riser card for it too.

[@fiveer11]

@@CobsTech great video btw!

[@mndlessdrwer]

@@CobsTech Unfortunately, there's not a particularly large amount of upward mobility with the specs of these servers, since the best processor you can get for it is an Intel Xeon X5690 6C @ 3.46GHz, and a maximum memory capacity of 288GB of RAM utilizing dual-rank 16GB PC3L-10600 LP-RDIMMs. Seems like a lot of effort to go to when you could pick up an IBM x3690 x5 on the LGA1567 platform where your highest tier processor can have 10 cores instead, and they're fairly inexpensive to pick up even in the US.

[@idontwanttopickone]

It's a good time to buy off eBay in the UK. Lockdown is making people very careful with money. Making it a buyer's market. I've got/seen things for half or less of the usual price in the last few weeks.

[@Horrox101]

I'm sure you have been told this already but all you need to do to remove the flickering is switch the camera to 25 or 50fps to match the UK AC frequency of 50hz

[@lost4468yt]

It's not that simple. The only real solution is to get better LED's. Quality ones will not flicker at all. It's just something cheap ones so to avoid properly rectifying etc the AC.

[@CityStarrzz]

This will just be something an outside management company wasn’t assed about anymore, that a customer had no need to keep. Well in on the find.

[@HafzaProductions2019]

I got a similar model (without its original panel) as I can use it for my upcoming computer lab and is my personal storage server too. Model is System X3550 M3.

[@Muscleduck]

The UK was awesome for servers before Brexit. I purchased an R710 with 12 cores and 48 GB of RAM for little over 200 GBP about 2 years ago. With 6 caddies and 2 1100W PSU's included.

[@ben6592]

The LED lights you installed are not on all the time. They actually run on a clock at a certain frequency. Your camera shutter speed is close to the same frequency as the lights. That’s why you get the “strobe” effect. None the less, wonderful video

[@jaybrooks1098]

Enterprise hardware is always cheap used. It was used up for its service life. Doesn’t mean it can’t be refreshed and put back to work but you are going to put new storage, new ram and new power supply to get another 4 years of service. So for half new price basically.. These were good machines at this point. The management hardware was spotty though If I remember correctly

[@JxTechy]

Congrats on 1k subs!

[@deathventure]

Your LEDs are using PWM to control brightness. The brighter they are, the less chopped up their signal is. You should be able to change the framerate of your video recordings to help with that.

[@joewalker5636]

film at a multiple of 25 fps... that will help with the flicker, led lights are only on when voltage is high, i.e half the waveform of 240v @50hz.

[@1gabrielroman]

On the camera problem, you have to sincronyze the refersh rate of the camera with the refresh rate of the lights.

[@dj_paultuk7052]

Good servers. I work for the largest USA bank here in the UK, and we have around 1,700 of these 3650 M3's in service in the DC's here.

[@CobsTech]

1,700?! That's crazy! Awesome to see that these old beasts are still in use though.

[@dj_paultuk7052]

@@CobsTech Thats just the 1 DC across 3 halls. Keeps me busy !. About 12 PSU's and 35 hard drives a week.

[@trueriver1950]

@@dj_paultuk7052 that's what you get when you divide a comfortable MTBF by 1700 :)

[@leorigby3069]

I've just picked up a Dell T110 ii for free. Using mainly as a NVR/storage or general kitchen puter... Ideal as it only uses around 35W at idle and they run quiet.

[@TDGalea]

I would absolutely love this kind of thing for file storage. Debian without a GUI, the resources it _does_ have could come to some use also.

[@pietrocavicchioli6128]

it's probably overkill for storage only.

[@TDGalea]

@@pietrocavicchioli6128 That would be where I put the rest of its resources to use.

[@pietrocavicchioli6128]

@@TDGalea oh oke, have a nice day man.

[@mndlessdrwer]

Definitely a fine server for that price point, though I personally prefer a bit better bang for my TDP buck. I think the lowest configurable processor generation I'd want to keep around would be some Xeon E5 v0 processors on the LGA1567 platform. You can get decacore processors for those at around or below 145W TDP, and PC3-12800 ECC RAM is reasonably inexpensive if it doesn't have as much as you'd like. Regardless, what a great bargain you've acquired here.

[@malanvogt]

I run off lease dell poweredge servers at my business I'm the US. Baffles my mind how powerful a machine I can buy for so little.

[@stefannilsson2406]

I bought a dell poweredge r810 with 4 xeon E7 8837's for 89,99 pounds. I thought it was a steal until I got hit with another 86 ish pound fee when it passed through customs. Buying stuff from the UK became a lot more expensive when they left the EU.

[@CobsTech]

That's pretty solid to be fair. I've got 3 IBM X3850 X5's which use the same processors. Upgrade them to the 10 core 20 thread E7-8870's and you've got yourself a cheap 40 core, 80 thread beast. I used mine for a fair amount of blender rendering and mass virtualisation. Fee's tend to be a lot shipping those due to the size and weight.

[@stefannilsson2406]

@@CobsTech Cool, I considered buying some of those 10 core cpu's. But I'm mostly running servers for games with low requirements, like minecraft. They usually prefer raw clock speed over thread count. The 8837's go up to 2,799 GHz on all cores while the 8870's only go up to 2,533 GHz if im not mistaken. But having 40 cores and 80 threads probably comes with some bragging rights though. Not everyone can say their pc draws over 500 Watts in just cpu power on full load either.

[@ewenchan1239]

It's interesting that you would set the priority on Cinebench = realtime because unless you are planning on doing that with most tasks that you are going to be running, it probably won't really be necessarily representative of the rest of whatever workloads you might put on said server.

[@woodmon122]

The light flickering might have something to do with the AC frequency?

[@gh8447]

Ah, the venerable M1015. Great for cross-flashing to IT mode for use as a FreeNAS / TrueNAS server!

[@wiplash84]

the flicker can be solved by changing the fps you record in

[@galsherp6173]

little did you know his camera was also 1 usd

[@mgproryh]

Match the shutter speed or frames per second to the refresh rate of your lights which is usually 50 in the UK or as a multiple of and then nobody gets an epileptic fit from flashing ty. The reason it changes if you focus or raise your light level is BC your probably shooting vid on auto so it will be changing the shutter speed of your cam to balance it. Move to manual and set to 50, 100 or 150 and so on or alternatively PAL should work

[@guywhoknows]

Fairly good deal. These do make good file servers. The older one is better as it has the DAS connection on the back where as the new ones you buy a additional card. £1 can't really go wrong. I recently retired my MK1 of these as it was getting a bit slow and have other newer servers.

[@CobsTech]

I agree with that to be fair, I remember the MK 1's and maybe the MK 2's has external SAS ports. This ended up being replaced with the IBM ServeRAID M5025 which has 2 of them, battery backup and a bit of extra cache.

[@benjamincolligan]

I'm currently doing a current science degree at university in the UK and watching this has honestly made me quite interesting in servers (I am only in first year hence not covering them yet lol)

[@CobsTech]

I too am currently in University covering computer science. I'm at Level 4 and sadly nothing server-wise has been covered yet :( There is one module on servers and virtualisation that I'm hoping covers this sort of thing in better depth. Right now everything I have is self-taught.

[@benjamincolligan]

@@CobsTech Oh yeah that's awesome, I thought you were an early professional coming from this video to be honest - is this not your work place or something? Either that or your own workshop lol

[@CobsTech]

@@benjamincolligan Haha, I appreciate it. This is soley my homelab. I dropped out of school at 16 after geting ok-ish results from my GCSE's and managed to get an apprenticeship. I used what money I had to essentially build all this up. Personally I think having the ability to have hands-on experience with servers and networking devices is a much more efficient way to go about learning and developing my knowledge of which I can then apply at work. It's been a fundamental learning tool for me, providing a much better experience than dealing with all the 'theory' that Uni and other schools would give you.

[@pietrocavicchioli6128]

@@benjamincolligan I'm 17 and I bought a server some months ago, I don't know much about pcs, I use it as a gaming pc mostly (yeah, that pretty stupid, I know), but playing around with these things is a lot of fun, and since the documentation for poject like mine is very very scarse, you have to do it yourself, so thanks to this, in a year I have reached a point in my life where I'm now very fond of server hardware and I know HP Proliant dl380 g6/g7 and dl380e/p g8 extremely well, the best way to learn about these things is to buy one and play around with it.

[@winMANhun]

Pretty interesting vid, congrats for this find:) But please change your flickering light fixtures, they were a bit irritating

[@trueriver1950]

24:35 "Begs the question why anyone would need one of these these days": Which might in turn explain why you weren't out bid on EBay.

[@TamiTechTami]

Guess I should make a habit of checking ebay for servers now

[@GrockleTD]

8:02 Cob's casually reminding me i still haven't repasted my x58 chipset

[@GrockleTD]

2 months later, still haven't done it lol

[@GrockleTD]

only took about 3 months, but i've finally done it

[@Walterz930]

I really wish I could get hold of a server again as I really need to start testing things again

[@mndlessdrwer]

Check Amazon, as they've been selling some decommissioned servers for pretty reasonable pricing. Not sure if it's directly from Amazon or handled by a 3rd party, but they had some HP Gen8 servers for pretty reasonable prices the other day.

[@burgesskj]

You win. I used to rack & stack those back in the day (pre Pandemic).

[@CobsTech]

Are the M3's still used commonly in datacentre's where you are? Does surprise me businesses still run these when much more powerful hardware is available on the market nowadays.

[@burgesskj]

@@CobsTech no

[@michalrzmichalrz6656]

Sweet. Inspiring, too. To think it's just 10 years old and would end up in a landfill... All those sweet sweet MIPS :D

[@stevearkwright]

Well, they wouldn't end up in landfill - they have to go either to the second user market, spares/parts or WEEE recycling.

[@uni6503]

Great video. Would be better to do the tour while the server is off and then do post-commentary for any content while it's loud. Noise is a little distracting.

[@brandmail6832]

Can you give us a video about how you use your Microsoft Surface Pro in your workflow? :) I love to work with thin clients in combination of servers :)

[@Flankymanga]

Broadcom NetXtreme II series of adapters and especially BCM5709 are plagued with problems. I have SystemX 3650 M2 model - which is the older brother of the one in the video and my Linux system is experiencing intermittent NIC Copper link down messages. Turns out its a NIC driver problem. I hyad to manually load the network driver with parameters to solve the issue.

[@agw5425]

I got you beat, I got a HP proliant DL380 G7 for 0.15£ (2skr) on a online auktion and I got lucky that a friend would transport it to me free of charge (i´ll still pay a bit to my friend for good form) I hope to learn how to manage my own server and how to set it up. I believe a server works just like a pc, I guess I´m about to find out. Do you know if a server have a "C:" drive separate from the storage drives where I install the server os? There are a sd card slot and a usb port in it are one of them the place for the os?

[@acpgiga]

Plot twist: Spyware ...

[@eightmegsandconstantlyswap8862]

I dare you to buy a SunFire SPARC server.

[@victorbart]

I got an Sun T3-2 for basically the price of the memory modules inside 😁

[@ArrAnheAton]

I have one as a table stand 😂

[@hawkdeathpawp6021]

@@ArrAnheAton does it work? or dead server?

[@scellyyt]

I would absolutely snatch one of these but I have nowhere to put it

[@NoahsTechInfo]

same here.

[@jamess1787]

Trust me, you find the space. I'm using a laundry folding table for my x3650-rebrand.

[@tech_mad_lad]

me too, but i like life lol (wife says i have enough computers lol)

[@lillywho]

I'd just run ethernet to the kitchen and put it on a cupboard. Only place where the noise wouldn't be noticeable.

[@scellyyt]

@@lillywho see the thing is I'm a 16 year old who lives in a full house lmfao, literally nowhere to put it

[@seanplace8192]

I e-wasted a one of those servers last year. I was tempted to rescue it, but it had a bad PSU fan, and I just went on a power draw crusade on my homelab. So an old Dual Xeon server wasn't looking like a good idea (Already had one with similar specs that I use as an offline backup).

[@Maxex4328]

It's the frame rate you are recording in. Enjoied the video.

[@arctis_shark]

i got a dell poweredge c1100 for only 50$ canadian or about 32 pounds! it also came with 2x500gb WD Black drives

[@gpowerdragon9852]

what a score mate Still looks pretty good I wonder how good it renders videos in pinnacle studio 20

[@HarryL2020]

Its due to you camera shutter speed, if you have the option to change shutter speed you could probably fix the issue.

[@McCuneWindandSolar]

I wonder if you can swap out those pci-e 8x slots out for one with a 16x slot.

[@miniwarrior7]

I recently got a cisco ucs c series for free off the side of the road, 4x 2TB raid 5

[@CobsTech]

Crazy to think people would throw out something like that! What model is it?

[@jacobbaranowski]

Is it oblate? Is that why it’s so adorable? Oh wow it’s so loud. I thought this was just a Server? But your using it like a computer? I am confused. Great pickup for a $1

[@pietrocavicchioli6128]

Dudeee, servers are awesome, I have one and I use it as a desktop/gaming pc, servers are just powerful pcs in the end, especially the elder ones.

[@sausagefingers714]

i ask what are those chunky cables hanging over your monitor are for? looks pretty interesting thanks

[@CobsTech]

Those are QPI Link Cables. They're designed for connecting 2 X3850 X5 systems together to act as one. Essentially this gives you an 80 core 160 thread system with a total ram capacity of 4TB I think. It's something I've been working on for a while but need to buy more RAM to get it properly working :)

[@sausagefingers714]

@@CobsTech sounds like a blast! and cheers for getting back to me man

[@jommoner]

Very interesting! I need to dig out my Acorn Filestore 😳 one day

[@safn1949]

Excellent, Dell Precision Tower 5810 12C E5-2687W V4 3GHz 64GB Ram Quadro M4000 Workstation. I can buy this for $200 as a gaming rig. Have not decided yet

[@xdptwin1]

Im your 1000 sub! Nice video :D

[@CobsTech]

Legend!

[@Fatez]

My left ear loves this

[@Ed.E]

Awesome and interesting video! Thanks for sharing :))

[@CobsTech]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@ytHUNTR]

You Lucky Bas.. :D i really need one and am watching for one since like one year.. :P

[@gumbi79]

great price for the mighty x3650

[@DosGamerMan]

Nice server. I'd max out memory and use it for virtual machines.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

With a hidden cable running from the street lamp that was conveniently placed right outside your front door....

[@yugiohhub7219]

that vape is so vaporwave-ish, it looks nice. where did u get it?

[@nickisacebeans]

The flickering is because your camera is running 60fps whereas your lights are flickering at 50Hz - change the FPS on your camera to 50fps

[@binarysneaker]

The gubbins in your keyboard put me off my dinner.

[@mohammadmakani3703]

Do not change anything in the task manager(If you change Cinebench does not work well)

[@ytHUNTR]

And a little tip: slower your camera FPS, so the lights are not synched and start flickering.

[@CobsTech]

A few others have pointed out the same thing, something to do with the shutter speed. I'll see if I can fix it for the next video :)

[@DarkSwordsman]

Is your (or whoever's) Discord server private, or is it public for anyone to join? If it's public, do you have a link to it anywhere?

[@CobsTech]

I don't have a personal Discord server however I can be found in the Budget Builds Official and OzTalksHW discord servers :)

[@bummers]

I am more curious with the windows tablet Cobs is using. What make and model is that?

[@CobsTech]

Haha, It's a Microsoft Surface RT. Usually they only run Windows 8 RT however a leaked build of Windows 10 can be installed on it after installing the GoldenKeys and YaHallo jailbreaks.

[@bummers]

@@CobsTech Very nice! Thanks for the share and nice catch on the server btw. Thumbs up!

[@chazfxz790]

got reccomened this and enjoyed :)

[@count0nz]

Nice i have a DL380G6 with pretty much the same setup. 30G ram. 4x 720G drives + 2x 80g SAS 10k drives. (OS/Boot)... only useing 1 cpu right now but i do have 2 of them. 6 cpre (12 threads)

[@pietrocavicchioli6128]

me too almost

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

fun thing is you can plug in cheap SATA SSDs into the 3.5" SAS drive backplane. Way faster than mechanical SAS drives. And fine for SOHO use if you maintain the server yourself.

[@TheWho853]

put the camera to record at 50fps if you can, or slower then 60 anyway, it will solve the flicker problem!

[@Xx_BEAST_xX]

You gained a subscriber and a like

[@Seawolf.Gaming]

Nice find

[@bassjunk3]

I'll give you 50p for it!

[@3v068]

Out of curiosity, is this powerpc architecture or x86? I know IBM still does a lot of powerpc stuff. EDIT: The extent of my knowledge is building gaming PC's and workstations for people for fun. I dont actually know how PCI express or how RAM would interface with another architecture because my knowledge of computers isnt that deep. If someone would be willing to tell me, Id be happy to know. Thanks!

[@CobsTech]

The server in this video is an M3 model which is when IBM were still doing x86 servers. After the M4 series, Lenovo took over the x86 side of 'consumer' servers and IBM just stuck with the PowerPC servers. Both are still common in datacenters however the PowerPC ones are a lot more expensive. Both x86 and PPC interface with PCIe or RAM in very similar ways, however from what I've experienced with my own Power 550, it seems most PCIe cards will need some form of 'legacy' support, that being cards that are not locked with UEFI only VBioses like more modern GPUs. I may do a video on mine at some point, I need to buy rails for it first.

[@3v068]

@@CobsTech Absolutely excellent comment. Answers all of my questions. Thank you, and I hope to see that video soon!

[@DaveVespa]

If you were to wack a graphics card in this could you use it as a PC? I was thinking for stratagy gaming so a cheapy graphics card would be fine.

[@CobsTech]

Most certainly, however it'd likely need a different riser to put a proper GPU in. These are commonly used with Quadro and Radeon Pro cards rather than standard GeForce and RX cards.

[@DaveVespa]

I understand that power usage would be huge compared to a normal pc. Is that right?

[@CobsTech]

@@DaveVespa Indeed it is, older servers like this aren't massively power efficient. they'll happily suck 100-250w all day long compared to a normal PC that would consume a lot less.

[@pietrocavicchioli6128]

@@DaveVespa riser card in many server are rare, I'm currently using an HP Proliant dl380 g6, for that server riser cards are commonly available, it's a doable build.

[@keithscott5520]

Issue with the lights its the 50hz frequency ... happens with tvs trying to be filmed by a camera

[@happy4175]

Looking for a high-end refurb machines Servers/storage’s/hard disk/processor for a animation company in India . Could you please guide me on this

[@MrPsychoBee]

The question is... How much dedicated wam do you need to run a server?

[@xenti1293]

very intresting vid bro

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I dunno, but that server looks more like 50 pounds.

[@djrob04]

that monster of a vape though