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Title: What is the oldest hardware you are using to run SME server?
Post by: joshAU on August 15, 2016, 10:53:38 AM

Hi all.
Just curious to know how old the hardware is that you're using to run SME server?

Mines really ancient, ie, last millenium. :)

I'm running a Pentium III computer that was manufactured in either 1998 or 1999, lol.
Before you fall off your chair laughing, it was a pretty good system in its day.

Its a HP Visualise workstation, which in its day retailed at over $25000USD.
It was designed as a graphics workstation.

I bought it second hand a few years old for $600, around 2004.

It is one of the best P3 systems - dual 1GHZ Pentium III CPUs, a massive 2GB of RAM, an Adaptec RAID controller, dual 1GB NICs, serverworks chipset, etc.

But yes, its probably worth around 5 cents today.
But a really reliable and well built system.

It does the job - it hasn't let me down for over 10 years - with the exception of one hard disk failure.

I love the fact that we can run this fantastic server on such cheap hardware.

Title: Re: What is the oldest hardware you are using to run SME server?
Post by: Stefano on August 16, 2016, 06:44:04 PM

I had a SME8 running on a P3 800 MHz till 2 years ago.. he replaced a SME7.6 running on a dual Pentium 1 with 128 MB of ram and 2 SCSI disks

the main issue is not the power (in some cases) but the lack of spare parts :-D

Title: Re: What is the oldest hardware you are using to run SME server?
Post by: joshAU on August 17, 2016, 02:54:49 AM

Ha ha!
A Pentium I, lol.
Now thats really ancient!
And yes, SME certainly doesn't need much grunt to do the job.

Re spare parts, yes, I'm a bit concerned about the proprietary HP power supply in my system - its not an easy one to replace.
If it ever releases the magic smoke,  I'll probably have to upgrade the system. 

Title: Re: What is the oldest hardware you are using to run SME server?
Post by: marsa_matruh on September 06, 2016, 11:29:40 AM

Until end of July, I was using:
 - motherboard ASUS TUSL2-C (815EP)
 - celeron Tualatin 1400 MHz downclocked at 933 MHz
 - 512 MB SDRAM PC100-PC133
 - ATI XPERT@Work 4Mo (rage pro)
 - HDD Maxtor 80 Go
 - lan : Intel 10/100M and 3Com 3c905B 100BaseTX
 - Fortron FSP145-61GN

But I switched to SME 9.x with brand new hardware  :grin: :
 - motherboard ASUS P5E-VM HDMI
 - Xeon E5450 3.0 GHz (second hand buy in China for 25 €)
 - 4 x 1 Go DDR2 DIMM - PC5300 - 667 MHz
 - SSD : Samsung 850 EVO 120 Go (second hand buy on ebay for 45 €)
 - lan: integrated and TP-LINK TG-3468 (PCIE GIGABIT)
 - mini-tower : ANTEC  NSK4480B
 - EarthWatts EA-380 ATX12 v2.2 (part of the tower)