2022-02-03 Server Status Update

[Rockinsince87]

Its kindof funny how quickly that turned from 'lets get the old boxes powered back on' to buying a bunch of new hardware.

It was needed honestly. Dell PE1950 servers hit the market in 2006! 16 years is way too old. The CPU instruction sets have drastically changed and the fact that the X5000 series processors still used a front side bus to instead of the modern quick path interconnect only further prove the  point. Memory bandwidth on the X5000 series processors ranges from laughable to meh compared to modern desktops and laptops. 

Also refurb servers are cheep these days. You want a dual socket Xeon E5-2690 V3 (24 Logical Cores each) with 128 GB of RAM, it's $1000 or less per server depending on brand and form factor. Not to mention the E5 series processors consume about 1/3 the power of the X5000 series so for power distribution capacity and cost, it's a good investment. 

To me, this is a no brainer slam dunk by Haxus.