Dell Poweredge 2850

the Dell PowerEdge 2850 episode 1 of this old server starts right now hello everyone and welcome to the inaugural edition of this old server this series will highlight the technology that used to run the world of business today I'm presenting the Dell PowerEdge 2850 to you rackmount server this was a hand-me-down from a former employer of mine and it had been sitting in my closet for some time now the system was still running when it removed from production and I only powered it up when I brought it home to wipe the hard drives with Derek's boot nuke also known as D ban prior to the hard drive erasure it was running Windows Server 2003 r2 64-bit edition according to the dirac web interface so let's take a look around the PowerEdge 2850 is a generation 8 model from Dell first released in 2005 this particular example was built April 27 2006 according to the sticker on the side for those o