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wren337 · 06-20-2004, 06:05 PM

This forum has been great, there aren't a lot of Snap resources out there.

I picked up a Snap 4000 2U server on Ebay with no drives in it. I couldn't get my browser attached to it since it had been config'd to a custom IP address and had a changed admin password. The tech guides from the snap appliance site show how to reset the server to the factory defaults by booting with the reset pin depressed. When I first read it I assumed "reset all factory defaults" would clear the IP address and SU password but you have to do all of the reset steps, they are each seperate.

Once I got into the console I didn't have any trouble getting everything working. I tested it out with a 40GB western digital drive I had laying around, then I dropped in 4 120GB Hitachi 180GXP drives. It formatted them out and created the RAID partition over them in about 6 hours (I think, I went to bed).

Pretty sweet overall, I got about 25Mb/sec write speed and 50Mb/sec read speed at 100bT with a crossover cable. Over 802.11b I can stream audio/video to several systems at once no problem.

06-20-2004, 06:05 PM	#104
wren337 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Detroit Posts: 3	Snap 4000 Upgrade This forum has been great, there aren't a lot of Snap resources out there. I picked up a Snap 4000 2U server on Ebay with no drives in it. I couldn't get my browser attached to it since it had been config'd to a custom IP address and had a changed admin password. The tech guides from the snap appliance site show how to reset the server to the factory defaults by booting with the reset pin depressed. When I first read it I assumed "reset all factory defaults" would clear the IP address and SU password but you have to do all of the reset steps, they are each seperate. Once I got into the console I didn't have any trouble getting everything working. I tested it out with a 40GB western digital drive I had laying around, then I dropped in 4 120GB Hitachi 180GXP drives. It formatted them out and created the RAID partition over them in about 6 hours (I think, I went to bed). Pretty sweet overall, I got about 25Mb/sec write speed and 50Mb/sec read speed at 100bT with a crossover cable. Over 802.11b I can stream audio/video to several systems at once no problem.