> Dude,
>
> I used to have a stack of proliants, and I agree with Nick. Prolaint
> bios was... Special.
>
> If you really want a low power cpu, get one of those c7 cpus, put it
> in an aluminium case, and you don't have to worry about all those
> issues that nick and others brought up. If you're worried about this
> affecting your wife, the radiation is inverse squared or inverse power
> of 4. The C7 is as low power as those PPros you're looking at, or
> possibly lower.
> Certainly all the other equipment you're going to put in - HD and
> power supply are better performing when new - older stuff are prone to
> leakage (old caps, etc).
>
> Another thing to consider - you can't look at single components,
> you've gotta look at the whole system. Older proliant are not UL
> certified for home use - ie, it leaks more EMR. Additionally. The
> video, audio and scsi cards all produce EMR. With the C7 (check out
> that motherboard that walmart's selling), and a HD, you're done.
> If all you're going to need is 300G, just get a 300G HD and you're
> done - the whole system only has 3 components putting out EMR -
> motherboard, HD, power supply. If you put that in a nice aluminium
> case, and then ground that sucker properly, your wife should be happy
> with you. Compare that with a heat producing, inefficient proliant,
> with old CPUs that use more power (and hence, probably produce more
> EMR), with additional components, video card, audio card, one boot
> drive, one scsi/raid, one external case, additional (and expensive and
> high EMR producing) HD - at 36G, you'll need 10 drives, and the scsi
> backplane, I count at least 17 discrete components producing EMR,
> including power supply for scsi box.
>
> I just don't see how it can be better for your wife.
>
> And don't forget the noise. Proliants are *LOUD* suckers. Generally
> all servers are loud and will interfere with household appliances -
> for you, this seems to include your wife, though if you call her a
> household appliance, she might not be too happy with you :-)
>
>
>
>
> On 2/8/08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:03:31PM -0800, Lord Sporkton wrote:
> > > All i can say is that i have a 1850R and a 5000, both of which run
> > > wonderfully so far with OpenBSD, the 1850 is duel pII 450 and the 5000
> > > is quad pII 400, havent had a single problem so far.
> >
> > Did you have any trouble getting the software for setting up the scsi
> > raid card? Can the raid card be set up as JOBD, i.e. if I want to start
> > with just one or two drives non-RAID?
> >
> > Doug.
> >
> >
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