[wplug] Ideas for Surplus Equipment

[Michael Semcheski]

Just to clarify, this is equipment owned by my employer.  So I can't
give it away or use it for personal things.  What I was hoping for was
something that could make use of the tapes as "near-line" storage.
(Or other creative ideas) (I haven't had a chance to looked into in
much depth yet.)

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:22 PM, DK <wplug at curlynoodle.com> wrote:
> How many CPUs and how much RAM are installed on the server?
>
> Are the tapes 200GB native?
>
> Some (likely obvious) ideas include:
>
> - Download Mirror (public and/or WPLUG InstallFest)
> - Digital Media Storage + Archive (LinuxMCE, MythTV)
> - Online Storage Server (for friends and family)
> - Storage and Backup for VPS (you'll need another server)
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Michael Semcheski
> <mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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