My university had excedent servers after cloud migration and were going to throw them out. Any tips for sourcing drives and ram?
eBay
It’s fun to roll the Aliexpress dice for homelabs. Worked out great for so far.
I’d be hesitant to do that with drives and I’d attempt to use consumer drives.
Is it worth the electricity costs?
eBay or Amazon
RAM can be bougt used on ebay. I recommend buying SATA drives instead of SAS drives if the system supports them. They are a lot cheaper.
I have had few rack server RAM sticks around for so long (something like few GBs). If you let me know the exact model I will gift them to you (if the model matches). I’m based in Italy.
Proliant dl380e g8. Based in Spain. Requires ddr3
I would recommend eBay. It’s how I got parts for my free PowerEdge 1950 and a few old ass laptops.
I’ve got a bunch of ddr3 8gb server ram and some drives for that model if you’re interested
Lots of parts for these as these g8s and g9s are being recycled, ebay has a lot of great oem parts cheap. I have a dl360 gen 8 and gen 9
If you’re in Canada, look for ANK servers, on Ebay. Easy to deal with, and lots of parts for this sort of server.
Do it eBay my friend.
I think I have a bunch of 4GB or 8GB *ECC DDR3. Post what you need, I shelved it years ago. If you’re in the US I’ll give you for shipping.
What is that FlexLOM card? It looks like a 530FLR dual-SFP+ module, which is a bit of an upgrade from the standard, plus maybe a 331T in a PCIe slot?
I have loads of 8GB modules from DL380 machines if you are UK based?
