HP Servers for budget plotting

[teeboy]

I have made a few posts over the last few days of my experiments with Old HP servers:

Proliant DL380 g6 Server slow plotting

I have got hold of some old server hardware recently and have been experimenting on servers with multiple CPUs and multiple cores and here is a summary of my findings. I have been using cheap hardware so no SSDs, but lots of memory (as old server memory is cheap, and most old servers have lots of slots) Linux - Not Windows - lots of people say that Linux is more efficient at plotting than Windows, on desktop hardware this might be 5-10%, but on server hardware it will come down to how your OS …

I think I am going to keep my server which does 30 min plots! But it is time to get rid of the other ones.

I have put one of the G7s on ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284476300723

Let me know if you are interested in that or any other HP server hardware. The biggest problem with these is the size so shipping is a pain - even getting packaging big enough is a problem, so ideally you need to be UK based and even better middle of the UK!

[drhicom]

I also have servers from 10 years ago with hex cores etc. Some I7 pc’s that when you run 3 plots its like choking them But we tinker… and make some plots.

[DjDemonD]

This is the way to go, my main plotter which can do 20 minute plots is a Dell R620 with dual E5-2670 and about 384GB ram. Its noisy and uses a fair chunk of electricity but fills hard drives with plots.

[teeboy]

I have listed one of the faster ones now as well:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284489930599

This is a DL360 G9 with 192GB and 36 threads and can do a plot in 40 mins.