[wplug] Ideas for Surplus Equipment

[Michael Semcheski]

I've got some old equipment.  Right off the bat, its not going
anywhere.  It has to stay "in the family".  I'm trying to figure out
what the best way to use it.  Any ideas?  Any FOSS projects out there
that are designed or able to utilize this stuff in a "the whole is
greater than the sum of the parts" way:

1) One Pentium 4 server with 15 400GB SATA hard drives (currently in a
ZFS JBOD, but nothing valuable is on them.)
2) 28 tape LTO-2 library. (One drive, SCSI controlled robot and drive.
 Controller would fit in the box above.)
3) Approximately 100 spare LTO-2 tapes.  They can be overwritten.