dummptyhummpty Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I inherited a Dell PowerEdge 700 (P4 2.8Ghz, 4GB Ram, 80GB HD) and added two 500GB drives and a cheap SATA RAID card in hopes of loading ESXi so that I could experiment with Windows Server Products. Unfortunately, ESXi isn't supported on this hardware and Windows Server 2008 R2 requires x64 (which I don't think this is). Should I sell this and put the money (won't be much) towards a new (cheap) ESXi server? I can't really think of anything to use it for except that I was going to play around with web hosting on Ubuntu, but was going to do that in a VM as well. Just looking for some feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidas117 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 If you don't want it, at least keep the parts. You can use them if your main PC breaks down. Or, you could back up your computer on the two hard drives. That's what I'd do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dummptyhummpty Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 If you don't want it, at least keep the parts. You can use them if your main PC breaks down. Or, you could back up your computer on the two hard drives. That's what I'd do. Some good ideas, I don't know if any of the parts are compatible with my other computers, but I'll check. I used to use the drives for backup, but those have been replaced with a 1.5TB drive. I guess I could use it as another NAS or something, not that I'm low on space on my existing one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I inherited a Dell PowerEdge 700 (P4 2.8Ghz, 4GB Ram, 80GB HD) and added two 500GB drives and a cheap SATA RAID card in hopes of loading ESXi so that I could experiment with Windows Server Products. Unfortunately, ESXi isn't supported on this hardware and Windows Server 2008 R2 requires x64 (which I don't think this is). Should I sell this and put the money (won't be much) towards a new (cheap) ESXi server? I can't really think of anything to use it for except that I was going to play around with web hosting on Ubuntu, but was going to do that in a VM as well. Just looking for some feedback. I'd appreciate it! :D haha You could use it for a number of things though. You might not always want to have your current desktop doing everything. It could be a torrent seedbox if you're into P2P, a physical test box for anything and everything, it could be a mod project, etc. Wanna automate things in your house? Use it as the control center. If you'd like to automate, voice command, etc. things around you house you might wanna read about X10 technology (Although their site looks like a rip-off/cc stealing sit for some reason... o.o ) and look here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Sell it, will cost you more to run for a year than its worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dummptyhummpty Posted September 3, 2009 Author Share Posted September 3, 2009 Sell it, will cost you more to run for a year than its worth. Good point. I'm going to save up some money and build an ESXi Whitebox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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