DELL PowerEdge 4100 2x Pentium PRO 180 MHz review - RETRO Hardware
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►HARDWARE USED IN THIS VIDEO:
DELL PowerEdge 4100 / 180
2x INTEL Pentium PRO 180 MHz 256K socket 8
EDO SDR 1 GB( 8 x 128 MB )
HDD 5x 2.1 GB SCSI
HDD 1x 9.2 GB SCSI
CD ROM 50 pin SCSI
FDD 1.44 MB
Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6a
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►AUDIO:
UA-cam audio library:
Geographer - Arp Bounce
Gunnar Olsen - Trancer
Vibe Tracks - Foundation
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vid-49
_____________________________________________________________________ - Наука та технологія
"It took me some time to get a 2nd one"... Then shows box full of CPU's, you are a legend.
And the second cpu doesnt even work. LOL
:-)))) Yep from 50 pieces you will get:
45x 200MHz/256
4x 200MHz/512
1x 180Mhz/256
RETRO don't play no shit!
LOL!!!!
@@RETROHardware so, this motherboard handles 2 x 200Mhz processors?
This takes me back, these were the first servers I worked on. They served us for years running file servers and Lotus Notes servers. I remember investigating slow down on one server only to find that a colleague had enabled a pretty intensive screen saver!
Why I cringe when I see people destroying rare CPUs for 5 bucks of gold.
n/a n/a rare I’ve got about 30 Pentium pro cpus in my shed
@@jamezxh Thanks for hoarding them all
@@thedude1574 hah yeah bought them for 5 bucks each about 10 years ago from a computer wrecker
they better collect street garbage, it's more profitable
Coz you know the art behind them
That noise is haunting. It reminds me of the quantum bigfoot drives.
Reminds me of the Seagate ST-225, Had two of them in a 386 once. Sounded like a jet the whole time.
@@lelandclayton5462 I think the ballbarings are going out on those fans hence the noise :-/. I would look to see if there are modern replacements if I were him
Still have my Quantum Bigfoot in a closet somewhere. Need to power it up to check whether it still works.
@@chrwl007 could you imagine how scary it would sound with ssd's running in it then the fan noise would be the most noticeable thing about it instead
That noise is awesome. I adore SCSI.
I remember hearing a story about scientists scanning old computers with X-rays to see through the different layers. This was for computer from the 70’s and 80’s. Surprisingly we have little info on how a lot of the older stuff was made and how it works. For every successful business that made computers, there were 10 that failed and their knowledge went with it. A lot of the people who worked on and designed the first generations of computers are dying off. Glad some people are looking at what came before.
People would look at images or copy fabrication masks to try and copy/reverse engineer processor design (USSR, China, etc). I think you are wrong on having little info on how older stuff works. It isn't that old and hobbyist are still recreating old CPU designs (NuXT, Commander X16, AltairKit, many 6502s from a breadboard, etc). Documentation was great back then and a home micro would come with a book teaching you how to program it.
I am in my early 40s and know the computer in the video inside/out from when I was a young sysadmin in the Military. I would like to hope I am not dying off.
Russian FSB still make x ray pictures of the electronic boards to find hardware backdoors.
Wow, I haven't seen a Conner HDD in decades. What a trip down nostalgia road.
There was a PowerEdge 4200 at my first job out of college in 2008. Dual PII server. It belonged to the US Navy as part of a contract. They actually sent someone out to package it on a pallet and sent a truck to pick it up in 2009 as it was no longer needed for the contract (replaced with a PowerEdge 2550 they also owned) and they had it slated to go into production elsewhere.
The 4200 uses the Pentium II instead of Pentium Pro. (The 2200 is the single-CPU version)
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Always appreciate your videos. This one makes me want to fix my dual processors slot one board which is not working right now : (
I hope to get it fixed.
So are the SCSI drives in RAID, if yes, what mode?
It can run half life 2?
@@RETROHardware Could you make a video with Windows 2000 installed on this machine? I think Windows 2000 may already have all native drivers for all parts of this server.
I had an old Data General server of the same era, and it was quite a beast, much like this Dell! I don't recall the exact model, but It could take 4 CPUs (it was populated with two 200MHz 512k cache Pentium Pros when I got it), had 256MB of ECC RAM, as well as two IBM 4GB drives. It also had a remote management card, much like Dell's DRAC, or Compaq's "Lights Out" card.
I attempted to resurrect it, but realized it was next to impossible. Didn't have any of the original utility software, and parts are especially hard to find. (To upgrade it, I needed more drives and caddies, and VRMs/heatsinks to be able to fully populate the CPU slots.) Ended up parting it out after the drives failed. (This particular server had insanely high hours on it, after all.) At least one of those Pentium Pros I salvaged, along with four of the RAM sticks, ended up being used to resurrect an old Gateway 2000 G6-200 board I found on eBay for $20.
"who in the right mind would really need more than one core" -my dad a really long time ago, man times have changed
I Remeber my own words: "who's gonna need flash memory when we have dvds!?". It was max 16mb back then.
@@vadymvv haha I like how you just thought nah increase in capacity is not gonna happen :P
@@NonsensicalSpudz i mean, that memory was very expensive back than.
@@vadymvv everything always gets cheaper or you get something that is better
And then there're intel with 16 cores
Ahhh old Barracuda's from back when Seagate Enterprise drives were something to covet.
Oh the memories.....i was building those Pentium Pro machines when they were new! As soon as MMX came along the PPro was useless....takes me wayyyy back!
I still have two of these in my garage! They were fully functional on Windows 2000 the last time I booted them years ago. Maybe I'll try turning them on one day! :)
I always enjoy your videos, they relax me.
I ran three of the Dell PowerEdge 4200 for many, many years. They were very good systems. The only drawback was the stupid SCSI disk trays, that used an "in between" adapter between the disk and the back plane.
Dell PowerEdge are still great to this day, and are my go-to when it's time to build a new server. They're unstoppable tanks that will just keep working for years. Decades, even.
Very cool!! Congratulations on this rarity! I love old machines! I am technical and I love informatics! s2
I love you man this kind of stuff is exactly what needs to be preserved and saved from the dumps I have tried in my life to preserve technology and different things that I and passionate about my life is very hard and I don't have the money and resources to do it you're doing amazing work
PS please be careful with those old power supplies you should try taking them to somebody who really knows what they're doing and have them thoroughly examined and or refurbished
That absolute UNIT! That shutdown noise is the spookiest thing heard this month so far.
Your box of Pentium Pros is glorious. much love for the channel
She's a beauty! I'd love to just mess about with it and see what I could run on it.
Another great videos boss man.
Like 20 years later, Corsair puts a window on the side panel, sprinkles in some RGB and calls it a day.
yep lol 0:30
It’s looks more case labs 🦆
As a Carbide 740 Air owner I must admit that you're having a point there. :D
@@RuruFIN It is a handsome case even all these years later. I'm partial to my carbide 500R - been using it a long time or I'd probably have gotten a 740.
@@Dreadnorth7734 exactly what I thought.. the 1996(beige) equivalent to jarry's 2012 rig (barnacles nerdgasm) it does look like a caselabs case though! I agree
贊！😍 保持得真完美；
中央處理器都拿來做鑰匙圈了！
absolute mad lad
I love this video
Not so fast but works fine :-)
looks like a old version of my workstation!
great machine to build in a monster pc!
love the classic looks!
hola amigo , me encantra tus videos de esas pc retro . saludos desde bs as .
Nice video. I waiting for more!!
I had similar a long time back there not light in weight .. easily break your spine with them .. bit of nostalgia again
I like how you use your hand to hold the CPU in when locking it. Pentium pro brings back some memories. Nice videos just discovered you
Please post more server stuff really love this content
This brings back memories. I almost forgot 3Com used to make Ethernet controllers
Remember UNC?
seeing the NT 4.0 device manager brought back some memories.
Not all of them pleasant.
Nice resto! I would love a case like the that with a modern motherboard and hard drive drives.
nice ,,,takes me back to good old days
Those hard rives sound so good!
Windows NT was a piece of rock literally. After 95 which I had to reinstall every month(!), NT survived two years without a re-installation. A separate dos process in each console window was an awesome feature.
I love the sound of those old hdds
Just spotted my 4X NEC CD-ROM drive in your lovely server. :)
So beautiful!
Amazing. Thanks for sharing it with us...
Neat, I have one of these style beasts with quad Slot 2 Xeon, 3 PSUs, and 1GB of EDO. It's an oddball and can make for a solid end table. MSRP could have easily been $10,000 in the 90s.
Man! What a BEAST! Love it!
Мощно! :)
that is a beautiful desktop ,amazing to see ,thanks for sharing this video.
Hola amigo, buenas tardes; vi tu video y te agradezco por mostrarnos como eran los servidores de aquellos tiempos. yo soy autodidacta de la informática y siempre quise saber como eran esos servidores por dentro; gracias por tu video.
Líbí se mi, jak hezky zacházíš s takhle starou technikou 😉 Je mi sice 16, ale tvoje videa mám fakt rád.
I supported one of thee for a vet lab back in 2002.
Pekne spracovane video :) Z prizvuku mi bolo hned jasne, ze budes Cech, a nazov stroja PREROV1 mi to len potvrdil. (a mimochodom prave som sa subscribeol)
Prerov, tam jsem casto prestupoval na vlak z Ostravy :-D
What a beautiful machine. I looks and sounds amazing, one CPU or otherwise. Thank you for this. 👍👍
Great video!!!
I have the PII version of this one… been in the family since new. Ran my dad’s business from 1998ish to 2003. Then was stored until around 2012 when we moved it to my house where it has sat ever since… I need to get it going again
I love the sound she makes when she powers down!
UncannyFox yep that was sweet
Pěkný video🙂/Nice video🙂
Weirdly, this video reminded me that today is the day to vacuum my place.
Super!
Oww, I love old things!
I love you and your channel
That is one big beast. The sound when you powered on the Dell might be hard on the ears for some, but i found it quite pleasant as it drowned out the ringing in my ears from my tinnitus. Thanks for sharing, and i look forward to seeing this beast in action with the second CPU working. In the meantime, could you benchmark the the system with one CPU in action and then benchmark again when you get the second CPU working and compare the scores??
Love these sound :3
13:45 "Of course all attempts failed"
Windows. Windows never changes...
Wonder if linux would boot and consume both CPU's
I remember doing this, back in the days... bleh. (edit: though, being successful)
...
Also, had dual pp200's running ubuntu as a test
I had one of these, well kinda. Back in 2000 I got ahold of the Case and Power Supply. Gutted the Power Supply and popped in the guts from a Rosewill 350Watt Power Supply. Had a AMD K6-2 system in it then upgraded to a Athlon 64 when it first came out. Would of kept the case and probably still be using it but couldn't take it when I moved out and my mother lost the house a year later leaving my huge pile of Retro Computer parts behind. Of course at this time no one was into Retro Computing.
Beau matos 👍👍
Super. Ja ma compaq z 4 procesorami PPRO tylko 3 vrm mam i czekam na 4 :-)
Que Pedaso de maquina Bro!!!
Interesting looking machine, thanks for sharing
That is an awesome case! I want that case!!!
When your IO card needs it's own RISC CPU...interesting that the dev team for that processor eventually went on to work on the Pentium Pro which is also in your system. Cool rig.
On boot it sounds like a jet spinning up it's engines. Great old sound.
Most RAID cards have a dedicated RISC processor.
I used to see a lot of those i960 CPUs in parts bins in the late 90s early 2000s. Lots of dumbasses stripping super expensive SCSI cards for parts not knowing their true worths.
Love this type of videos i had a hoe proliant dl385 g4 working perfectly is a bit old but a powerfull machine
Es una delicia con solo verlo. +like
beautiful
More stuff like this please
Ahh that hdd sound 🥰
You know... that case actually SCREAMS for a sleeper build. If I ever come across a broken one of these, I'll build one inside.
0:14 that misaligned "Pentium Pro" sticker is ruining everything
Relíquia 👌👌👌
Great!
Noisy, but I like that sound of starting SCSI drives!
This is your daily dose of Recommendation
Past time server
oh yeah very nice
I have a custom gaming pc I built that has a case looking exactly like this, its the corsair carbide air 540 cube and it is AMAZING for low thermals! Perfect for overclocking!
It would make a great sleeper PC. Imaging how much modern hardware and cooling could fit in the case.
It would require so much modification that it wouldn't be worth it man..
It's not an ATX board in there..
Cases were purpose built on many systems back then...
@@fadingbeleifs Somehow, I think that anyone who was determined enough to use this case would be able to mod it.
@@ozpin8329 It´s not even a hard mod.
Such kind of fully equipped MPS Intel based Server Hosts had made sense as Microsoft based database / application, or file servers.
In the professionel industrie realm, Sun SPARC, HP-UX PA-RISC and that IBM AIX stuff was used.
Damn nostalgia kicking in, now I want a modern lunchbox portable.
Beautiful case
This makes me want to get my Quad Pentium II Xeon system back up and running again...
That screw in power supply is great
that's some heavy duty retro pc going on. you can now create some Quake maps w Qoole ;) or other 3d rendering or CAD
Heavy ... yes I think +/- 35kg. In next days ... my hands are 10cm longer than usual :-)
What a lovely machine.
What a beast! Brings back memories of poking holes in the high school computer lab's network. As an aside the 2nd processor isn't initializing because you need the smp kernel from an NT 4 install disk. NT 4 was a great operating system and it won because Microsoft rightly saw the internet as the future, but if you're curious about running a retro homelab I highly suggest giving Netware a try just for how well it plays with a wide variety of clients. You can certainly make NT speak AFP, NFS and NCP but its not pretty.
I had quite the same at work running NT4.
Switched for a Pentium 933 and Samba :P
imagine getting a fully speced out machine back when this was new
Nice and beautiful processor. One of my favorites ever.
Amazing machine !
Back in the day I used to play computer games CD's on an eMachines desktop. Oregon Trails, and Joshua & The Battle of Jericho
Fun times
Wow that tray of Pentium Pros!
Such a beautyfull beast.
Thx 4 the subtitle
hermoso case
one of the coolest pc cases ever made
That is a nice system!
Such a beautiful computer.