On 2009-03-31, The Hurdy Gurdy Man wrote:
Completely off topic, but I've noticed a couple threads in here with people
talking about hobbyist uses of Sun servers and other gear, so I figured I'd
give folks a crack at it before I send it off to the recycler. I have a
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I'll answer here because my newsreader runs on a system not
authorized for e-mail sending, so copying to where I could send it as
e-mail is a bit more trouble than I really want to go do here. If
you're reading on a newsreader which is on a mail-capable system, and
feel that you need to reply privately, my e-mail above is valid.
pricey since most of the gear is fairly heavy. It's all located in the
Pasadena, California area and you could come by and pick it up during normal
business hours if you wanted it.
Hmm ... a bit far from the East Coast. Me dropping by is not
likely an option.
What I've got are a few Sun E450s, an E250, a pair of Ultra2 workstations,
an Ultra10 workstation,
Hmm ... I've already retired Ultra-2s and Ultra-60s. The E450
and E250 are probably a bit big for my use. I'm using a Sun Fire 280R
as my main file server.
a few generic SCSI disk racks, and several SENA
storage arrays (some are A5200s, some are just generic SENAs). I also have
plenty of SCSI and FC disks for the arrays,
Hmm ... are the A5200s FC-AL in both the drives and the
interface to the computer? They are a bit newer than anything I had
access to while I was working.
How big are the FC-AL drives? I'm currently using a mix of 36
GB, 72 GB, and 146 GB ones. If they are 72 GB or 146 GB, I could be
interested in the drives, even perhaps without the arrays.
O.K. Looking at the FEH pages for the 5200, it could have come
with as large as 73 GB drives, which would be large enough to be serious
temptation.
And if not -- just the 5200 would be lighter to ship. I can
pick up FC-AL drives locally from time to time. (I lucked into a batch
of 15 of the 73 GB ones at a hamfest last summer -- even though they had
been formatted in a DELL RAID system, and had weird sector sizes which
made it more difficult to format it all -- but they all formatted.
and I'm pretty sure I have an
SBUS FC-AL card or two back there as well.
No need there for me, at least. Both the SB-2000s and the
SF-280R have their own built-in FC-AL interface.
Plus plenty of fiber cables in
various lengths, so if you're really itching to put together a big ZFS disk
array to play with, now's your chance.
Running three "raidz2" ZFS arrays at present -- two with 72 GB
drives, one with 36 GB drives, which I would like to expand to larger
drives. But I think that the A5200 might be a little less heat and
sound level than what I am current running -- some EuroLogic rack-mount
arrays.
Be warned, though, as some of the
gear is pretty well abused. It should all be functional, and I'll happily
test and verify functionality before letting it go, but cosmetically some
of them are pretty awful.
As long as it works -- I don't worry about appearance. :-)
If you're interested, feel free to post a followup here in the group, or send
an e-mail to bryan at aernovo dot com.
Posted here, for the reasons given above, but I'll happily
receive an e-mail reply if it is easy for you to switch over at your
end.
I can, to a limited extent, even
deliver the stuff someplace but I'd probably need some convincing. Depends
on the location.
Washington DC area? :-) (Probably not.)
I often have PCs and other assorted cables and junk, so if you're into
scrounging up hardware for some reason, just say so.
Mostly Sun stuff -- but newer than the Ultra-2s these days. I
do run a couple of Ultra-10s as web servers, with OpenBSD as the OS.
Solaris 10 on most of the remaining systems, and a firewall on an
Ultra-5 with the same OS. But both my wife and I are using SB-2000s,
and the SF-280r for the server, plus a SB-1000 for experimentation.
So -- e-mail me with the size of the drives, and the costs for
shipping the A5200 both empty and full (depending on the size of the
drives. 73 GB or larger, yes. 36 GB or smaller, just the empty 5200,
perhaps with spuds included. That's where the cost of shipping vs the
capacity vs heat output tradeoff of the drives folds for me at present.
Oh yes -- and a few copper FC-AL cables would be nice.
Thanks,
DoN.
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