Dell PowerEdge 1600SC ( pe1600sc/124 ) Server
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Manufacturer Part: pe1600sc/124
Brand: Dell
Model: PowerEdge 1600SC
Product ID: EPID66943746
Description: The PowerEdge 1600SC server is designed to provide your small or medium business with dual processorperformance at a price that fits your budget. If you need a file/print server, are building a LAN infrastructure orreplacing a peer-to-pe...
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good system, but know how to config. a raid system
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the 1600SC Power Edge is exactly what I was looking for. Do to the onboard SCSI, I had to buy a new raid card, so that the system would pick up and read the HDD. for the price I paid, I'm satisfied.
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Solid system, just not what I orderedThe server is solid and stable. I've run multiple hardware tests to confirm it. The only problem was it was supposed to be a Xeon 2.4GHZ with a 533MHZ front side bus but instead I got an older 1600SC with an older serverworks motherboard and a Xeon 1.8GHZ with a 400MHZ front side bus. It would cost nearly half of what I paid to return it so I'm going to suck it up and upgrade it to dual 2.8GHZ 400MHZ FSB xeon's for about $60.
The front fan was non-functional and the BIOS requires you to press F1 to continue booting with no way to bypass/disable the prompt. A replacement Dell fan for the server is about $40 if you shop around. Tack that on to the price already paid for a circa 2002 server that already needs some heavy upgrades and you're spending too much money in my humble opinion.
The SCSI drives that shipped in the server worked but one of them was whining pretty bad. I don't intend to use the SCSI drives, I've added a SATA controller to the system. The server is picky about hardware. I had 2 SATA controllers. With one of the SATA controllers I could install an OS to disks attached to it, but the server would not recognize them as boot devices. I replaced it with a Promise SATA controller that the server will indeed boot from though.
FWIW, you can get a SCSI hot swap backplane w/cage for these servers for about $100 plus $20/tray for a total of 6 drives. Not really worth the money, very old system.
So all in all, my cheap server solution is not going to be so cheap anymore but still cheaper than buying a brand new one.
The front fan was non-functional and the BIOS requires you to press F1 to continue booting with no way to bypass/disable the prompt. A replacement Dell fan for the server is about $40 if you shop around. Tack that on to the price already paid for a circa 2002 server that already needs some heavy upgrades and you're spending too much money in my humble opinion.
The SCSI drives that shipped in the server worked but one of them was whining pretty bad. I don't intend to use the SCSI drives, I've added a SATA controller to the system. The server is picky about hardware. I had 2 SATA controllers. With one of the SATA controllers I could install an OS to disks attached to it, but the server would not recognize them as boot devices. I replaced it with a Promise SATA controller that the server will indeed boot from though.
FWIW, you can get a SCSI hot swap backplane w/cage for these servers for about $100 plus $20/tray for a total of 6 drives. Not really worth the money, very old system.
So all in all, my cheap server solution is not going to be so cheap anymore but still cheaper than buying a brand new one.
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My Dell Server now.....lolReview created: 09/15/08
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This machie is built like a brick s**t house. Extremly versitile and easy to configure. It's upgradable and can use the current releases of Windows software without much in driver updates. It has plenty of space for hardware upgrades and easy to work on. When looking at the barebones price at an online store and comparing them to what I got it was a steal. I like te fact it will accept up to 2 3.2GHx Xeon procesors. It currently has one 2GHz and runs well.
I entertained the idea of building of my own server but the cost would have been double or better of what I got this baby for. It still wouldn't have touched this in performance. I'm not an AMD fan and that is the way I would have had to go to keep costs down.
I entertained the idea of building of my own server but the cost would have been double or better of what I got this baby for. It still wouldn't have touched this in performance. I'm not an AMD fan and that is the way I would have had to go to keep costs down.
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