My university had excedent servers after cloud migration and were going to throw them out. Any tips for sourcing drives and ram?
Get the fan mod for the BIOS, your ears will thank you
What fan mod?
Thanks.
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eBay or Amazon
Pictures that you can hear
It’s not really that loud once it’s finished booting.
Look at the options of what is compatible. You can look online by the parts numbers listed in this document.
HPE Proliant DL380 Gen 8 data sheet: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/c04123238
Google the model number, buy stuff.
eBay for RAM, should be pretty cheap for used stuff. Also, drive caddies eBay or Amazon, there are companies that make clones that work just as well as the originals. HP wants you to buy their drives, which were really just rebadged drives at 5-6 times the price. I’m assuming this is a SAS machine, if you want new drives you can use SATA drives in a SAS controller (can’t go the other way) and it will work just fine for a home server. If you are fine with used, SAS drives are on eBay for pretty cheap.
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?
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.
From this angle, that looks like a DL380 G5. It’s not worth buying parts for. But if you must … EBAY, of course.
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.
Literally free?
If your looking for a decent machine try the hp elitedesk g3 800 sff desktop i5 7500 quiet as hell upto 64gram twin video out 10 usb usually come with 500gb ssd and 500gb hdd all this for about 70quid I just got two and I couldn’t be happier 😊
Shameless plug: I have a pile of 6TB Toshiba 7200rpm SAS drives that came from a Dell server and are in good working order. Looking to send them to a loving home. They should work well in your server. PM me if interested.
