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

Free servers tend to cost a LOT of money.

[-] sr6000@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Even bought ones cost a LOT of money too.

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

Depends on how you buy it. If you keep power consumption at the top of mind, and you stay about 3 years back in the early refresh cycle, you can do very well.

[-] r3volts@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Was gonna say this. They are fun to play with but they are LOUD, expensive to run, and likely overkill for most home jobs.

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