Dell r200

[Jake03042000]

Just got my hands on a dell r200 from work, xeon quad core 8gb of ram, any ideas of what I could do with this. As haven't got any ideas.

[Radium_Angel]

6 minutes ago, Jake03042000 said:

Just got my hands on a dell r200 from work, xeon quad core 8gb of ram, any ideas of what I could do with this. As haven't got any ideas.

Wear earplugs?

The rack-mount Dell servers can get noisy.

But they make excellent Minecraft servers

[Nick7]

Big paperweight?

It's old. Old CPU, old technology, uses more power, loud (1U server).... not much use of it, IMO.

[NelizMastr]

Oof, a Core 2 era server. Not much you can do with that nowadays.

Normally I'd say, slap a hypervisor on there and build some VMs to experiment with,

but there's not much you can do with 8GB RAM in a server.

[The Lighting Designer]

nas? Small web hosting/minecraft server to tinker with?

 

I have 3 of these that I got for free and the fans are quieter as say the r210 as the fans are big blower style than a line of small ones that are really loud. 

[Sp1r1tus]

Do you have any other services in a homelab running already? There are lots of possibilities with these little R200/R210 series rack mount units.

 

A small NAS or something that you could run docker containers on might not be a bad idea if that's something you are into