Got this for literally free. Ram sticks and drives are missing. Any tips for sourcing the parts? (alien.top)

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My university had excedent servers after cloud migration and were going to throw them out. Any tips for sourcing drives and ram?

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[-] Legit_Yosemite_Sam@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

cloudninjas.com has pretty decent deals on ram/ misc specifically for servers and will tell you if it fits yours or not. I got refurbed hdd's on Amazon because I'm cheap, but at least they're enterprise level.

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