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As I said
1. It's none of your business what I paid for something
2. It's rude to ask when the information isn't volunteered
3. After your last tirade(and I quoted it above so everyone can see what I'm talking about) I'm especially not telling you what I paid for something
So that's the end of it. As I said the seller and I were both happy with the price, and that's all anyone needs to know. If anyone is considering a similar purchase and wants to use my prices paid as a reference, feel free to PM me and I'll discuss specifics.
I've been collecting stuff for a long time, and in almost every field of collecting there are people who have to get involved in everyone's business and want to know prices on every transaction. It's a habit for which I have no patience, and there are certain people who can't drag a price out of me once a transaction is completed. At least one person in this thread(you can probably guess from reading) has already had that "earmark" placed on them when it comes to collecting Macs.
Admittedly, what bunnspecial paid for Xserve+Leopard Server isn't far off from what I paid for my brand new 2012 Mac mini last October, now running OS X Mavericks Server which I had bought off the App Store for $20.
Speaking of Leopard Server, a copy just appeared for $75.
Does it have the serial number? Apple does actually track S/Ns on these, and if you don't have a valid s/n it's more or less useless.
Here's a link to the listing, they mention serial numbers are included: http://www.ebay.com/itm/231509041705
This one is a tad cheaper at $65 Serial seems to be there fuzzed out in the picture.
However, if you need it and do not have the time to wait, then you pay whatever is on offer. I wouldn't sweat it. In a month you will have forgotten what you paid.
What I will add is that Linux is no substitute if you want to serve Apple clients. I tried that and got rapidly fed up having to recompile netatalk for every minor update of the kernel, which seemed to break just about everything and then having to debug while netatalk wouldn't work any more. Added to that, trying to add Time Machine shares over the network is a royal pain in the backside under Linux because it cannot deal with expanding volumes. You have to manually create the dmg container for every Time Machine backup and it if it ever breaches the volume capacity, well...
I hackintoshed that server... So much easier in the end.
However, if you need it and do not have the time to wait, then you pay whatever is on offer. I wouldn't sweat it. In a month you will have forgotten what you paid.
What I will add is that Linux is no substitute if you want to serve Apple clients. I tried that and got rapidly fed up having to recompile netatalk for every minor update of the kernel, which seemed to break just about everything and then having to debug while netatalk wouldn't work any more. Added to that, trying to add Time Machine shares over the network is a royal pain in the backside under Linux because it cannot deal with expanding volumes. You have to manually create the dmg container for every Time Machine backup and it if it ever breaches the volume capacity, well...
I hackintoshed that server... So much easier in the end.
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As you said, I was not unhappy with the price, and I got the software 3 weeks ago rather than waiting on the off chance that one would show up cheaper. I'd venture to guess that I've been able to get more than $25 worth of productivity out of in the past three weeks rather than waiting for the possibility of a less expensive one to show up.
And, yes, the fact that it "just works" goes a long way toward making it worth it.
It's primarily an NAS and time machine server. I bought another sled on Ebay for a few bucks and changed one of the drives it came with. Both of the drives I installed are 1TB, so I have 2TB of storage space on it.
As I mentioned when I bought the thing I occasionally get roped into doing movie work for church(even though I really have no idea what I'm doing). It's been happening increasingly more often. I have iMovie and Final Cut Express installed on it, although I primarily use iMovie. I do the work on the Quicksilver, then transfer the iMovie project file to the server and use the server to do the rendering. It's a huge timesaver in that it both frees up my Quicksilver to use other things, and does it significantly faster than the Quicksilver(probably 1/4 of the time).
Another useful trick is Netinstall. If your client has a dodgy optical drive or slow usb ports, this can save time installing or upgrading the client OS. Bunn has a ton of machines to service.
How did swapping the drives work? I'm eyeing a Xserve on CL that doesn't include drives, just sleds. I have read varying stories about swapping drives.
For whatever reason, one drive was reluctant to work initially, but I pulled it, reseated the cables, and it worked fine.
Even though the drive should be hot-swappable, I've also found a reboot necessary in most cases for the new drive to be recognized. About the only thing I've been able to do hot-swap wise is unmount a drive, pull it, and then re-insert that same drive and have it recognized.