Am Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:40:30 -0300 schrieb Fernando Cassia fcassia@gmail.com:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:28 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Again, you could hit eBay for a power supply. But all the servers, including blades, that I ever worked with were 120v or 220V (ok, this is the US). Is the psu in the box dead?
There's no PSU in the box. I've got the enclosure as well! It's one of these http://www.harddrivesdirect.com/product_info.php?products_id=142183
In the back all the blades are connected to an interconnect power regulator board that goes to two large round prongs the kind used in 20 AMP 220/240 V AC plugs. But right now I'm 99% sure right now that this works with 48VDC. The blades have tiny power regulator boards next to the (proprietary?) blade power connector... and on the internal side of such connector the markings say "48V" for the white wire and "0V" for the black wire.
What about networking?
They either have "shared" networking (AFAIK) or there needs to be a module the lets you connect the blades to a switch...
If you have no budget, blades are the worst to work with ;-)