Inherited SunFire T2000 server for free. I hate Solaris with a passion, so I'm in the process of netboot installing Debian for SPARC processors. I figure an 8-core processor with 32 threads should be useful for something. It also has 4 x 146GB 10k RPM SAS drives. Unfortunately the RAID controller only works with striping or mirroring. I figured I'll stripe all 4 drives just for the speed. I don't need redundancy.
Question: What am I going to use this for?
I was thinking about offloading rendering tasks on this server? (I use SolidWorks mainly. Might start using Blender and some others).
I use windows machines for workstations and servers already. This server I thought would make a great R&D server since every other core tasks are already spoken for.
Question: What am I going to use this for?
I was thinking about offloading rendering tasks on this server? (I use SolidWorks mainly. Might start using Blender and some others).
I use windows machines for workstations and servers already. This server I thought would make a great R&D server since every other core tasks are already spoken for.
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