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Looking for a free or inexpensive RS/6000 in chicagoland/milwaukee area, or something similar. Honestly just want the case and drive backplane. If anyone around this area has that or something similar please let me know. Anything AS/400.
I want to build it into my next rack server, its intended use. Need alot of drive bays, starting a vintage computing youtube channel soon for fun. So need something to hold all my videos and stems on.
Just curious: What does an RS/6000 have to do with "Anything AS/400"?
"just want the case and drive backplane." WTF?
how many drive bays do you imagine this mythical rs/6000 or as/400 has, that take what kind of disks?
I would prefer a non working machine, Was hoping for a F70/F80 chassis RS/6000. I would take anything AS/400 as well, is what I meant. Not too picky. Going to reuse the chassis and retrofit modern equipment and mount it into my server rack.
Far as I know a F70/F80 can fit 17 drives. I always loved way they looked. Was hoping maybe someone in the area has one sitting dead, or even if working, I can part out whats not needed to someone on here who could use it. I would prefer a non working machine of course.
I just noticed this is in the buy/sell section, can a mod please move this to items wanted please.
What, is this for a Crypto mining setup?
No, More just a fancy NAS box for my server rack. Starting a youtube channel soon and going to need a ton of storage. Figured since its retro computing, it would be fun and match the spirit.
Was hoping to fill it with a mixture of SAS and SATA. At this point anything 3U+ sized work for my scenario. Maybe one day i can find a F70/F80 chassis.
And reason for so many drives is I want to upgrade cheaply along the way. 2-3TB decomissioned SAS drives are cheap lately. Every few months 20 bux to fit more. Alot less initial investment. Built in UPS or power filtering is a nice bonus.
The way I see it, if you're gonna build vintage machine into a nas... why not
do it with some style?