IBM xSeries x206m (8485)
When?
The IBM x206m was released the same year that the United
Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild
mammals was enforced.... got it yet? that's right, 2005.
IBM's xSeries 206 was the middle of the scale model out of
three new servers that marked IBM's entrance into the lower end of a quite
crowded SMB marketplace. The system was pitched at smaller business with a
strict budget to adhere to.
What was really good?
For not alot of cash the x206m offered functionality and
tools normally associated with enterprise level boxes. Businesses without
24/7 colocation server facilities must have felt the high-availability
technologies such as optional redundant power supplies and IBM's integrated
ServeRAID-8e, which enables data redundancy in RAID 0 disk-striping and RAID 1
disk-mirroring configurations were great.
What was really bad?
If you were a network admin looking to setup shared printers
or directories, this might have been a struggle as no guides were provided.
Thankfully these can now be found online.
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