Apparently they started as Sun workstation supplier for government and military customers, and later started doing high-performance luggables for a variety of markets, including video production. Thus, this thing. I can't find this model on their site, but they did a lot of custom things (and this thing is 12 years old: they might have just deleted it from their site )
This thing does have data on the hard drive. This used to be used by a church in the bay area, and it's one that boasts on their website that they livestream their services.
I bet up until relatively recently they were using this machine to do that
I am an expert at industrial espionage but I take the slow route I just wait 8 years for your computers to get donated to a church and then thrown out, and then I pick them up and access your presentations that were foolishly left on the hard drive!
so @Lapsus figured out what heatsink this is. It's an actual product that was sold, not their custom thing (though the fan mount IS custom, they made their own aluminum bracket for it)
It's a Swiftech MCX478-V (or very similar, since that one is designed for a Pentium 4, and this is a Intel Core (non-duo)
fun fact about this heatsink: They did not, in fact, drill the screw holes at an angle. That was too hard, so they drilled them vertically, and just bent the screws.
oh god the church has a link to their sharepoint instance.
I was a bit iffy when my local church introduced powerpoint in the early 2000s, I think this fancy produced video stuff is extra bad, but Sharepoint? That's one of the layers of hell! It's in the bible*!
I WAS gonna email the church and tell them "hey I have 122 livestreams of yours from 2019 to 2020, do you want any of these back?" but no, now that I realize they are CORRUPTED BY THE WORLD I will simply erase all their lost data.
You had one chance, Bay Area Fancy Church. You lost it when I saw "Sharepoint"
OKAY. Machine is torn all too pieces, it's dusty as hell, and the display is broken. The hard drive works (at the moment) but if I'm not putting this thing back together, I don't really need the contents for drivers and such. So I think I'm done here for today.
Thank you for visiting my fun story of a luggable that was used by NetApp and a Specific Bay Area Church, and neither of them understood the risk of throwing away hard drives.
if I ever become a security tech/researcher, which I hope never happens, 90% of what I'll be doing is yelling at organizations that COMPUTERS (AND OTHER THINGS) HAVE HARD DRIVES IN THEM! THEY STORE DATA! THEY KEEP STORING DATA EVEN AFTER YOU PUT THE COMPUTER INTO A TRASH CAN!
