Adventures in Home Labing, part 3: The "Space Heater" A.K.A my first "enterprise server!

At this stage of the home lab, everything was pretty much the same as the last post, except I introduced the first enterprise grade server (which, sadly, I can't find a photo of), but it was a Dell PowerEdge 2950, with L5XXX Intel CPU's (2x 4Cores, 8 Threads, for a total of 8 Cores, 16 threads.), with 32 GB of DDR2 RAM @ 800MHz... But I got introduced to the Dell Perc i Raid controller... Yay!!! Yes, I was a proper home laber now....

But alas, I still had most things running on the i7 960 rig, as it was much faster, and really only ran the 2950 in the winter, with the window open. XD It was not fun running that, but I got it for free and I got to play with it for a bit, before I retired it for good a few years later. I liked it as it was proper enterprise gear and I could say, a proper server. But it was around this time that I got into Minecraft game hosting and well... You see where this is going...

It was around this time, I started to get serious when it came to my home lab, I started to get and more into Proxmox, and started to do proper sysadmin stuff... Like Back-ups and restores after an botched update... Oh, it was an adventure...

Whilst I don't have a photo of the 2950 in the rack as it was short lived. It didn't change the photo above much. The i7 machine was still the primary server in the rack. It was not until I bought a Dell R710, that I got into "Real", server admin stuff. It was also around this time, 2019, that I got a job as a System Administrator and was using the 710 as a full dev, home lab... but that is a story for the next installment of this series... So stay tuned... Cheers!