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
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.
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.
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!
Wow! 🤩 What a steal! Good job! 👍
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
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!!
share more pictures please
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
