Looking for a server to host file storage and other services.
Quick eBay and b00m. A Dell T130 with 12TB SAS and 16GB RAM for £50. I'll be honest I thought it was a scam.
4 x 1TB SAS 4 x 2TB SAS
I have no one else to tell about my excitement. This is now setup with a 2 x gigabit connections to my hom network.
Just eBayed another 12TB in SAS drives and could easily get them for £80.
I used to think highly specced cheap hardware deals were the best thing on earth until I got used to the electricity bills. Cheaper in the long run these days to build something modern that can chew less idle minimum power.
yeah I know its like wow vintage quality
(personally having roaring servers would activate my ptsd from pulling floor tiles in a dark data center that is 15c at 3am)
but yeah the noise and power when you can get a tiny modern nas for not much money that sips power and is near silent and has more space and is probably faster than sas now as well (nvme slots). yeah I kinda get it? but not really.
What what what what seller
A little bit of time and patience on eBay and you'll find all that most servers are vastly overpriced for what can be purchased, looks like you got a good value server, my latest addition is a VRTX complete minus disks for £500
That's fun, I think I remember those let you install the OS on an SD card on the MB so you don't have to have a system disk
share more pictures please
That design looks so badass
Wow! 🤩 What a steal! Good job! 👍
That sounds like an incredible deal. I know nothing about how servers work or what they cost, but 12 terabytes is a lot of storage!
used SAS drives on eBay are also pretty cheap. I picked up 4 6TB SAS drives for like $40US/each a few years ago. I just now have one starting to fail but it as 2400+ hours on it. Oh well.
Very nice! I upgraded the processor and RAM on mine and filled it up with 10tb disks.
They're nice servers, and fairly quiet.
What's the thing that says DVD
Bloody bargain, well done mate, I'm quite jealous after spending a fortune on lots of new kit when I probably should've looked more at older stuff like this.
I have the T420. I really like it. It's quiet and just freaking works. Parts are easy to get. I bought the caster set off eBay so I can push it around and it gets it off the floor a bit. It's a heavy beast.
Well color me jealous
That's an E5 v2 xeon iirc?
I picked up a T5810 recently for a similar price and slapped 80GB RAM and a 14c v4 CPU in there for another £60 or so.
Much better than my old dual Xeon X5670 box.
Nice products for tinkering. I suggest to sell it for a higher price and get proper hw for a Nas.
That'd be a steal for just the drives, and the T320 is a solid machine.
Have fun!!
Where are these deals everytime I search eBay =\
Would you mind sharing what you searched? Did you look for a particular model or just "server"?
I know nothing about the Dell towers only the rack ones. Is it possible to take off the dvd drive and install hotswappable hard drive cages?
Congrats 💪 That's hell lot of storage! How about power consumption?
im curious about power consumption 🤔
111w give or take idle.
I just picked up a Dell T7910 for $200 USD. 2x 2690 v4 CPUs, 64GB RAM and 4x4TB SAS. So far is seems rock solid