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There’s nothing special about it. It’s just a (old) computer. I always recommend homelabbers just use regular PCs. Rack form factor servers have a use case and your closet or basement ain’t it. I’ve racked, stacked, and managed enough HP hardware to know not to bring any home. The people telling you to recycle it are correct.
This is why you think there's nothing special about it. Yes, it's a bad idea to run it as a server 24/7, but if you want to poke at a server BIOS, or play around with iLO, see how redundant power supplies or hot swap drive bays interact then yes there is some knowledge worth gaining there.
Fair enough. I’ll admit there is some PTSD from spending way too long inside data centers which gives me some bias. :)
That said, once OP has fiddled with it I still recommend shutting that sucker off. The noise and power bill will both be too high!