Fished this monster out of a dumpster a few years back at work and always knew I’d probably do something with it, heard they make great gaming PCs but it’s so freaking loud I never even entertained that possibility.

it has 16x2.5" sata hdd bays, still has the iLO details and serial number card which I hear is uncommon for 2nd hand servers, hardware raid card because of the extra 8 bays and external scsi card.

my self hosting journy only started a few weeks back with a 2 bay synology nas and pi-hole (technically a few years with jellyfin on my main pc but you know …) so simple suggestions, preferably 100% local because I’m behind a CGNAT without ipv6 and it looks like a lot of work to deal with.

and if anyone knows what software is used on the SD slot and internal usb key, if anything, that would be great :) I’m assuming license keys for software or something equally unimportant because I’ve installed Proxmox to mess around with and it didn’t need them.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve racked, stacked, and managed enough HP hardware to know not to bring any home

    This is why you think there’s nothing special about it. Yes, it’s a bad idea to run it as a server 24/7, but if you want to poke at a server BIOS, or play around with iLO, see how redundant power supplies or hot swap drive bays interact then yes there is some knowledge worth gaining there.

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      1 year ago

      Fair enough. I’ll admit there is some PTSD from spending way too long inside data centers which gives me some bias. :)

      That said, once OP has fiddled with it I still recommend shutting that sucker off. The noise and power bill will both be too high!