EEVblog #691 - Dumpster Dive Xeon Servers

More Dumpster Diving.
This time for some HP ProLiant ML330 and ML110 G6 servers with Xeon processors.
Will they work?
What should Dave do with them?

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[frosty]

Where can i find a magic dumpster like the one he seems to live by. Dumpsters near me are just full of soggy trash bags and cardboard :'(

[MickehPuppeh]

An E5620 with 36 gigabytes of RAM installed...

You'd TRULY have to be crazy to throw a machine like that out! Are you kidding me? This is a high-end machine, even by today's standards! They could've at least tried to sell it...

[youtubasoarus]

That people just toss this stuff pisses me off. Thirty six fucking gigs of memory and they just toss it like a piece of crap. Unbelievable!

[pd]

What a fucking find. Quad core Xeon and 36Gb or ram. What a fucking beast.

[electronicsNmore]

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[EEVblog]

KaidoFujimi if you look at just a single processor system, yes. But if you look at it from a multi-processor large scale server based system, I believe that Xeon based systems can offer better overall processing power efficiency per server system watt per unit volume per user.

[pret]

36GB ECC RAM. Unbelievable what a waste going on in Australia. Here in central europe it's totally unimaginable, that somebody throws out so much money.

[feieralarm]

The reason why they can get away with this relatively small, fanless heatsink is not because Xeons are any more energy efficient (Xeons are basically higher certificated i7 CPUs and consumer chipsets have usually more energy saving features), but because of the ridiculously high, guided airflow inside the case.

[Britec]

What a find Dave, that big one is worth keeping mate.

[MadManMarkAu]

The Ethernet "management" port is a dedicated Ethernet port for HP's iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) offline system management interface. It's basically a web page that allows you to power the server on and off, remotely view the console, attach virtual media, reconfigure the system, etc... The "LAN1/Mgmt" port is also labelled as a management interface, because iLO can be configured to share the system LAN port, so you don't need to run a second dedicated management network if you don't want to.

[FakeName]

Is.... is that a SD card slot on the motherboard of the ML330? Huh, that's interesting.

I wonder if that can boot off a SD card.

[rafisofyan]

where do you find that kind of dumpster? do you work in a shared tech building or something?

[GadgetAddict]

The little one is the web server and the big one is the database server.

[LazerLord]

Where would one go to find stuff like this? Maybe you could make a 'how to dumpster dive' video.

[ThJones]

Man can I come and live in your dumpster?!

[Darryl]

Hi Dave, when you blow out the inside with air, be sure to get inside the power supply too, They are known to get pretty crusty as well. Thanks for sharing. I wish I could find stuff like that in the dumpster! Love thy neighbor!!

[bluefoxtv]

The larger one with it's quad core hyper threaded CPU, RAID support and all it's memory would be a good editing PC.
As for the smaller Heat sinks well they use them because the system does not need to be silent unlike a gaming pc.
Also the Ethernet ports marked management are for IPMI use ( or iLO as HP call's it ) as well and stranded Ethernet.

[sprybug]

I could just imagine how good Flash would run on that.  No more major playback slow downs on assets with tons of vector points and effects turned on!

[morerobot]

WHERE DO YOU FIND THESE? WTF! Where do you get these boxes just thrown out?

[cakelesscoder]

I have a nice "gaming" pc (my first build, a good 13th birthday present) that i built mid may this year. Yes, it has got a watercooled cpu and led fans, but when seeing that big server fire up my heart skipped a beat to watch it post. Mind you, my pc runs silent, but you could at least use the server as a paper plane launcher :-)