Oh.....well that explains it! LoL! A newly minted admin who doesn't see the "potential" of some H/W because he wasn't trained on it.....so he thinks its too old to serve a real purpose in the modern world.....LoL!

----- Reply message ----- From: "Fernando Cassia" fcassia@gmail.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS Date: Fri, Apr 11, 2014 10:47 am

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:38 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

It could have been tossed because it was old... but I'd wonder if it was tossed because either the m/b or the CPU failed.

the guy who was throwing it into a dumpster bin when I walked by clearly knew something about servers, but didn't have much idea about what he was throwing out. He sounded like a fresh sysadmin. He told me "I have another like this that we might throw out, we can't get disks for them, and we're buying a new server anyway so..."

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