Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Christian Freund <freund at wrz.de> wrote: > > Yes, I figured that because of the HDD technology. I wasn´t sure of > the 7 years or 5 years but I figured it was close to that timeframe. > But you know, I´m typing this on a dual-core AMD Opteron purchased in > 2008 so... old ancient hardware is the name of the game for me. ;) I hate to say it, but that dual-core Opteron may be as powerful, or more so, than the blade. But (I missed the beginning of this thread) have you opened it up? It's *possible* that there might be a SATA connector on the m/b. Certainly, we have servers from '08 or so that use SATA. And drives - you can pick up "small" drives - 400G and under - fairly cheaply, though 1 TB wouldn't be that expensive. <snip> > I think I´ve found a solution: there´s a daughtercard that apparently Daughtercard, or riser? Riser might hold 2 expansion slots. > includes a Mini-PCIe slot. In this, I figure I could add a half-height > card with USB 3.0 and/or SATA controller. If the blade BIOS will You might need "low profile", but you can find them. Since you're doing this on your own, you can use places that, say, I can't, like eBay. > recognize it and allow it to boot, that remains to be seen. This That should be in the BIOS options. <snip> > So, is there a mailing list other than CentOS where I could find > people knowledgeable about the internals of these blades? Right now my > top priority is finding if I can hack a 48V DC power supply to the odd > (proprietary? or de-facto blade standard?) connector at the back of > the blade. I don´t want to pollute this list more with > hardware-related messages. 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? <snip> mark