What in the world can I do with old enterprise servers?

Lost you at "normal person". Carl Herrera's account has been hacked.

 

Plug them into the Toyota Center power supply and mine Bit Coin. $$$$ Profit

 

If you re-route the antimatter and dilithium crystal burn off from the warp drive to the replicators you can extend their life cycle for years. If you can figure out a way to route the deuterium directly to the replicators you're in business for a decade.

 

WRONG AGAIN.

Everyone knows you need GPUs to mine crypto.

 

Contract @Jontro to build the next Pronhub

 

Use them to render deep fakes of Tillman in compromising situations and leak them to the press next time he pinches pennies.

 

Have you ever seen the video of how the US Army got rid of something like a few tons of the stuff after the war? Imagine this, but on a sliiiightly bigger scale. lol. MURKA!

 

Donate compute powers to clutchfans website. During big games/big news breaks. This site is hit hard.

 

What kinda specs do they have? I'd be down to take one or two. Mainly to **** around with virtual machines and possibly Citrix.

I'm not a normal person though. I'm in IT lol.

 

Bitcoin - after about a decade those old computers should get you about %1 of one.

 

Patsquatch may be interested :

 

I looked at the specs on them, and they're designed to be storage servers. Some pretty interesting options on there. No idea how the ones you've got have been kitted out. They're only 8-ish years old.

Simple idea: Part them out on eBay. I'm guessing you'd make more than just selling them as is. I dunno.

Of course, these are servers, so they come with the nice remote management capabilities of servers. If you had a ClutchFan or other IT-oriented friend you trusted, you can give them access over IPMI and let them just remotely play around with them. They'd even be able to access the BIOS remotely via IPMI. They could see what hardware and software is installed and see what they might be useful for, if anything. Or at least what parts are there and what they're worth.

 

Maybe @Clutch could use them to help when traffic gets heavy on Clutchfans.

 

Scraping them for parts might be your best bet if everything works. Alot of orgs like to hold on to hardware as long as they can and a working power supply that dell no longer sells or daughterboards can gold to the right sysadmin. If you want to keep them you could throw linux on them and use them as san storage or a proxy to control ads and such.

 

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