Xserve ..

[Gav2k]

hi everyone.

I have a Xserve dual Xeon 2.93 "Eight Core" (Early 2009) sat in my storage collecting dust. Give me some ideas to repurpose this puppy please...

Specs are

Dual Xeon 2.9
24gb ram
3x 2tb hdd

Not interested in selling as shipping is costly and I'm sure I can find a better use for it.

 

[avemestr]

It could serve as an excellent room heater and ambient noise dispenser unit.

 

[boast]

Folding@Home

DNS Server
File Server
NTP server
Web server
VPN server
TimeMachine
Virtualization host

 

[Les Kern]

It could serve as an excellent room heater and ambient noise dispenser unit.

You forgot "electricity gobbler".

 

[Intell]

Those are lovely machines. They can take the most memory of any Mac ever made. I think they max out at 192GB of RAM. I'll always be sad Apple left that line to die. Happy though that they are still supported by OS X.

 

[Gav2k]

Those are lovely machines. They can take the most memory of any Mac ever made. I think they max out at 192GB of RAM. I'll always be sad Apple left that line to die. Happy though that they are still supported by OS X.

Yep it's a beautiful machine!

 

[Phil A.]

It could serve as an excellent room heater and ambient noise dispenser unit.

Yeah - I used to have one and while it was a brilliant machine, it was ridiculously noisy

 

[adam9c1]

If you have no use for it ship it over to me, I'll pay shipping!

 

[Cergman]

I'll pay shipping and toss in $50, pm me

You could use it as a Plex server to serve your movies to all of your devices, or as a file server/time machine backup. Other than that, just seems like a room heater/noise maker.