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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
by 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 agoYeah as I see even the budget Ryzen 3 CPUs are better than those old Xeons
- nodesocket 8y agoThere 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 agoIt'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...