Just got this free server from work, usable?

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soulesschild

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Dual PIII's
1GB ram
2x 80GB PATA IDE drives
1U Rackmount Server
10/100 (x2) NIC

I was thinking I'd yank it out of the 1U Rackmount since it's loud as hell, shove it into an Antec 300 and use it as a WHS box instead of building my own from scratch. Possible? I'd probably also need some SATA cards since this thing doesn't have any SATA ports.
 
Clean it out, load it up with RAM and upgrade anything else that you can. Should make a nice WHS.
 
It's usable as a WHS box. I'm running WHS right now on half the specs of your server (specs in sig). It's working relatively well, especially since I've added an Intel gigabit NIC to it.
 
Wait a minute, what motherboard spec do these things use? I have a dual P4 Xeon 1U server that's wayyyy too loud and I'd like to shove it in a normal case.
 
Dual PIII at which clockspeed? It should make for a really nice server since it's a dual-socket system, meaning that you won't quickly run into a CPU bottleneck with I/O. I assume it has PCI-X slots too?
 
There's a reason why Intel decided to dust off the Pentium III design with the Pentium M after the disaster that was Netburst :)
 
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