I got a pair of HP Proliant DL580 G5s, old, but potentially good. I was looking for something to run the ZFS SAN setup (which will hereafter be referred to as Hermes), and perhaps another VM server. They were supposed to have 2 Xeon E7330 quad-core CPUs and 32GB of DDR2 RAM.

To my surprise when I booted them up, server one had:

  • 4x X7460 CPUs (Six-core, 2.66GHz 16MB L3, SSE4)
  • 128GB of RAM

The second also had 128GB of RAM, but 4 E7450 CPUs, also six-cores but at a slightly lower 2.4GHz clock speed and I believe less cache. Total score, a single X7460 is worth more on eBay than I paid for both servers, so I ordered some cheaper CPUs (you know — the cheapest I could find that would work in the socket) at around $6/ea and these will go on eBay to help fund my little lab.

Once the MSA70 comes in I’ll be moving all the SAN stuff off the old desktop it’s in now and onto Hermes.

Note: These things SUCK power. Like 650w sitting there doing nothing power usage. But hey.. 128GB of RAM. That’s a lot of ARC for my ZFS machine!