[S] 2x HP Proliant DL380 G5

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Item name (be very descriptive): 2x HP Proliant DL380 G5 (Details below)
Age and condition: Retired from company server room, good condition. Not sure the age.
Do you include packaging: No
Warranty: No
Reason for selling: Bought on company auction.
Price: R4000 each
Negotiable: Yes
Location: Sunninghill (work hours) or Centurion (after hours)
Shipping or collection: Collection

No OS, but I've booted both to the BIOS to get the CPU and RAM info below.

Server details:
1:
CPU: 1.86GHz, 8MB L2 Cache
Memory: 2048MB
A single power supply, space for dual.
8x 146GB hard drives
Rail kit

2:
CPU: 1.86GHz, 8MB L2 Cache
Memory: 2048MB
A single power supply, space for dual.
8x 72GB hard drives
Rail kit

Pictures:
Server1:
Server 1 HDD.jpg
Server 1.jpg
Server2:
Server 2.jpg
Server 2 HDD.jpg
 
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brentm said:
Hi there, interested.
Can those drives be replaced with standard SATA drives?
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It seems that it is possible if you have the little boxes to put the drives in that fits into the server (which I don't have).
BUT, what little I've seen, they don't recommend it.
 
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These servers are 3 generations behind and have poo processors, the price is a little high... Shall do some research on the drives. Those defiantly wont do
 
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brentm said:
Hi there, interested.
Can those drives be replaced with standard SATA drives?
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SAS is backward compatible with SATA, so in theory you can plug a sata drive on SAS controler, but i would advise against it.

I've setup a Dell server with a Sata disk for testing, and it failed in 1 week (partion invalid) after the second try, ive installed sas drive, and its running till today 2 years later.

I guess only firmware issue, but still.

Also remember that is xeon cpu's
 
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insom said:
I opened them up to look.
Both have dual sockets, but only one CPU. So you could add another if you can get one.
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Thanks for getting back to me insom.

As much as these units seem pretty perfect, I am very skeptical of the ability to find the CPU as well as additional RAM needed to get these up to the spec I really need (I want these boxes to run video editing via RDP), so looking at allocating at least 4 cores and 32GB or RAM per VM, with the hopes of running at least 2-3 VM's concurrently...
 
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mic_y said:
Thanks for getting back to me insom.

As much as these units seem pretty perfect, I am very skeptical of the ability to find the CPU as well as additional RAM needed to get these up to the spec I really need (I want these boxes to run video editing via RDP), so looking at allocating at least 4 cores and 32GB or RAM per VM, with the hopes of running at least 2-3 VM's concurrently...
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I will ask the guys if they have any spares they can give/sell me. But I wouldn't hold out much hope. :(
 
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insom said:
I will ask the guys if they have any spares they can give/sell me. But I wouldn't hold out much hope. :(
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It seems that I have found a supplier of 4GB DIMMs, so RAM is not much of an issue. CPU's on the other hand... :/ If you do come right, please give me a shout :D
 
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mic_y said:
It seems that I have found a supplier of 4GB DIMMs, so RAM is not much of an issue. CPU's on the other hand... :/ If you do come right, please give me a shout :D
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They say they might have some 1gig RAM chips around, but no CPUs. Sorry.
 
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What are the serial numbers? Are the CPU's dual or quad core?
 
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They are both back up for sale.

They are both quad core processors.

Price drop: R4000 for both.
 
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