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On a sidenote I always wanted to buy an old Xserve just because for some reason they look really good. Not sure they are good for anything tho

by bdz 8y ago

jamesfmilne 8y ago
They do indeed look good, but I wouldn't bother. We have several of them at our company that we keep alive as build servers for our Mac software. They are 4-5x slower than the equivalent contemporary x86 boxes you can run Linux/Windows on. As a modern day server they are fairly rubbish really.
- bdz 8y ago
  Yeah as I see even the budget Ryzen 3 CPUs are better than those old Xeons
- nodesocket 8y ago
  There is an eight core 3.0GHz Intel Xeon, 32GB RAM, 2TB drive for $300.00[1] on eBay. Curious if you install SSD disks in RAID? Then it might actually be a pretty decent home server. [1] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Eight-Core-Apple-Xserve-Server-3-0GHz-Intel-Xeon-32GB-RAM-2TB-WITH-RAILS/322947767053?epid=1901422001&hash=item4b312fdb0d https://www.ebay.com/itm/Eight-Core-Apple-Xserve-Server-3-0G...
  - jamesfmilne 8y ago
    It's a little tricky to upgrade the CPUs in the Xserve as they are special versions with narrower lids. You can't use stock Xeons, you have to delid them yourself. It can be done though. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/xserve-processor-upgrades.1096691/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/xserve-processor-upgrad...
reaperducer 8y ago
On a sidenote I always wanted to buy an old Xserve just because for some reason they look really good. Not sure they are good for anything tho I've been tempted, too. Mostly for the nostalgia kick. I've seen them on fleaBay at really reasonable prices. It looks like .edu, .gov, and .orgs are phasing them out and often a listing shows a stack of 20 or 50 of them, and you can pick the one you want.
cmsj 8y ago
They might look pretty, but they're annoying - the drive bays pop out when you press them, which is annoying if you knock the front of one by accident.

On a sidenote I always wanted to buy an old Xserve just because for some reason they look really good. Not sure they are good for anything tho

by bdz 8y ago

On a sidenote I always wanted to buy an old Xserve just because for some reason they look really good. Not sure they are good for anything tho

jamesfmilne 8y ago

They do indeed look good, but I wouldn't bother. We have several of them at our company that we keep alive as build servers for our Mac software. They are 4-5x slower than the equivalent contemporary x86 boxes you can run Linux/Windows on. As a modern day server they are fairly rubbish really.

bdz 8y ago
Yeah as I see even the budget Ryzen 3 CPUs are better than those old Xeons
nodesocket 8y ago
There is an eight core 3.0GHz Intel Xeon, 32GB RAM, 2TB drive for $300.00[1] on eBay. Curious if you install SSD disks in RAID? Then it might actually be a pretty decent home server. [1] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Eight-Core-Apple-Xserve-Server-3-0GHz-Intel-Xeon-32GB-RAM-2TB-WITH-RAILS/322947767053?epid=1901422001&hash=item4b312fdb0d https://www.ebay.com/itm/Eight-Core-Apple-Xserve-Server-3-0G...
- jamesfmilne 8y ago
  It's a little tricky to upgrade the CPUs in the Xserve as they are special versions with narrower lids. You can't use stock Xeons, you have to delid them yourself. It can be done though. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/xserve-processor-upgrades.1096691/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/xserve-processor-upgrad...

reaperducer 8y ago

On a sidenote I always wanted to buy an old Xserve just because for some reason they look really good. Not sure they are good for anything tho I've been tempted, too. Mostly for the nostalgia kick. I've seen them on fleaBay at really reasonable prices. It looks like .edu, .gov, and .orgs are phasing them out and often a listing shows a stack of 20 or 50 of them, and you can pick the one you want.

cmsj 8y ago

They might look pretty, but they're annoying - the drive bays pop out when you press them, which is annoying if you knock the front of one by accident.