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Rise MP6
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| Based on Server 2003 32 bit.
I have one of these built out of the parts hoard.
S775 with a C2Q 9550, I think, anyway, just under 3 ghz with a 1333 bus. Gigabyte board, 4 gig ddr2. HDD's get added to a "pool" similar to "drive spaces" in later windows versions.
It just sits in the corner, headless, doing file serving, and doing daily back-up's of all xp and later machines. It does this brilliantly. Probably why M$ dropped it.
They did a v2 version but it was a crock. |
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Rise MP6
Posts: 263
| Snagged a Seagate Ironwolf 2tb drive for this today on Amazon. £54 which is about the same price standard 2TB drives are going for, so not bad.
I've enough space on it now to copy all my movies off my Synology NAS. |
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Rise MP6
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| Over a year later and this old thing is still chugging away!
It's now sporting an E5200 Pentium dual core and only 2 gigs of ram. Just a waste having anything more really.
It's got a motley selection of 10 sata drives in there now. It works great as an .ISO server for my retro machines using Daemon Tools. |
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Rise MP6
Posts: 263
| Recently rebuilt the WHS machine, the old s775 Gigabyte board was becoming a bit flakey so I retired it. Rebuilt it using an old HP Pavilion with a Sandy Bridge i3 2120 (2C4T) and 4 gb of DDR3.
Got an Intel Pro 1 gig NIC in there too.
Only running 3 drives, 2x2tb and a single 1tb for the OS.
It's just doing the daily back-ups for the home machines and storing the .iso's for the retro games.
Performance is excellent and the crazy thing was that it activated online! I thought M$ turned off the activation servers years ago! Well, I know they did, I was just gearing up for the painful phone call and when I ran through the steps to bring the numbers up, it activated. I really can't explain it? |
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