Dell PowerEdge r210 II

[John Howie]

Hi Mathias,

FreeBSD should run just fine.

There are any number of web-sites that will sell disks for DELL servers for less than DELL does. 

Watch that power bill, and buy industrial ear protectors from the fan noise!

Regards,

John


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> On 27 Jan 2017, at 14:43, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The company I'm working for, decided to put some older rack mount
> servers into dust bin and I'm saving a Dell PowerEdge r210 II with 
> 16 GByte RAM and 8 CPU of 3.3 GHz as my new poudiere oven. The server has
> no disks (because they must be destroyed). I booted FreeBSD CURRENT amd64
> from an USB key and have below the dmsg(1) and ifconfig(8) output,
> attached below.
> 
> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/PowerEdge_R210_Tech_Guide.pdf
> 
> Any comments about this "project" and any ideas about the disks to buy?
> Thx
> 
>    matthias
> 
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> Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru at unixarea.de, ⌂ http://www.unixarea.de/  ☎ +49-176-38902045
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