Dell Poweredge 830

[nigel cross]

Just been given one of these, are they any good for using as a home pc , as a little toy as I have an iMac?

 

[balge]

It's an old server

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/830_brief.pdf

I've got a PE 2500 sitting around somewhere

Probably a bit much as a desktop, quite a good toy though

 

[Dryce]

Just been given one of these, are they any good for using as a home pc , as a little toy as I have an iMac?

Noisy.

Big.

Power hungry.

Limited graphics.

Likely to be smaller 'sever grade' disk drives - possibly SCSI

Quite usable as the equivalent of an office desktop as long as it has a decent amount of memory - or as an experimental system (eg. with Linux). Not much good for gaming.

 

[LTD]

I looked at older servers to drive my home network for audio and video.

When you consider the power consumption, space and limited performance of older servers for what I anticipated to use it for, the newer type of NAS, such as QTECH, made the choice simple.

Nice to have - but only as a plaything to mess around on unless you need to run SQL or similar at home.