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.
That design looks so badass
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!
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.
What's the thing that says DVD
Wow! 🤩 What a steal! Good job! 👍
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.
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.
Well color me jealous
Nice products for tinkering. I suggest to sell it for a higher price and get proper hw for a Nas.
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.
That'd be a steal for just the drives, and the T320 is a solid machine.
Have fun!!
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
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?
im curious about power consumption 🤔
111w give or take idle.
Congrats 💪 That's hell lot of storage! How about power consumption?
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
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