Back in 1999, when we started the company, we bought some really high-end servers for performance testing – and I still have a few for ‘old times sake’.
Here, for your viewing pleasure, the HP Netserver LP 1000r:
These were really potent machines back when they were purchased: dual Pentium III processors (1Ghz @ 133Mhz), 2 gigs of ram (512M ECC PC-133), and three 9.1G 10K RPM Ultra3 SCSI drives – which made them about $4000 each.
I clearly need to repaste the solid copper heatsinks, but everything in these machines is “HP Original” – and they still work…
Old-school performance HDs have weird (by modern standards) connectors… But this drive could do 160Mbit and has a 6.9ms seek time – which for the day was pretty impressive.
But, 20 years on, this server can pretty much be replaced with a Raspberry Pi…
Listening to "Early Summer" by Miami Nights 1984