What should I do with my old server?

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In my room under a desk is an HP Proliant ML370 (I believe a Gen 4 so 2008/2010) with 2 dual core xeons clocked at 3.4 GHZ. No PCIe either. I believe its supposed to be a storage array but it can be whatever I want it to be minus a GPU because its a desktop server. I honestly have 0 ideas for it as the 2 drives I have for it are rather tiny. One is an 18 GB drive and the other is 38 or 42. Somewhere around there. Also I don't know if its the most recent SCSi or SAS. I'm going to guess SAS though. Also it has 4 GB ram. I believe it was just an FTP server but I know it was at a local ISP that got foreclosed on.

I do have the ability to get more drives and trays for it and it has 2 good, I believe they were replaced when I got it in HS, redundant PSU's. I don't think I'll use it at my parents house (where I am now) because when I was initially using it our power bill went up 50 bucks .-.'''' I wasn't aware of this until recently when I asked.

So, if anyone has a cool idea I am all ears. I was thinking get some 160 GB drives and slap them all in there, maybe SSD's if such a thing were to exist, and use it as an ISO and game storage server for windows ISO's and linux ISO's as well as games and their files.

I also have with it a backup tape drive and a 100GB tape, its an ultrium 3, and I'm not sure what to do with that or how to use it.

Also I was thinking of doing something really stupid like put windows 7 on it lol. I know it's a no no though :P

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I built myself a multimedia top box under win7, twin cpu, 16GB DDr2 (server type) and a regular NVidia 8800. I get much better pic on 4k than with Boxee or others. I mean 1090p upscaled to 4k. I used a 160GB HDD. my use, and i like the pic and the browser access possibilities. Thats what I did !!!!!!!

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Install ESXI and run multiple VMs, its a fun way to experiment with virtualization.

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Meh. I don't really have a use for it :T

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Donate me the PSU ;)

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Donate my ass.

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I'd say that's a lot of power and electricity usage for just having a storage server unless you're going to run PLEX or the like.

Unfortunately I'm in a somewhat similar situation. Got some hardware that uses a lot of power but no real reason to use it 24/7. As long as I got some NAS that can do basic tasks like torrenting and serve mediatomb & samba I'm good. Don't even need redundancy, so am just using a laptop with gigabit LAN and an external over USB3.

I was thinking, what about SSL observatory or something?

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All that stuff is to old and power hungry. donate to your local computer donation facility or try to sell on CL as a "student learning device"