My university had excedent servers after cloud migration and were going to throw them out. Any tips for sourcing drives and ram?
Literally free?
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 would look for things on ebay. Google the model and find the type of RAM it needs. Same with disks. Disk drives are pretty universal, as long as you have the trays needed for that server. You either need 2.5 or 3.5 inch SAS drives. I can’t tell from the photo. If you don’t have the drive trays, make sure you get trays for your drives from ebay too. SATA drives will also work, but you’ll have better luck with SAS drives since they’re enterprise spec and tend to be more reliable and last longer. With RAM, the only thing that’s really different from desktop RAM is that you want to make sure you get ECC(error checking) for a 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.
Is it worth the electricity costs?
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
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.
I’ve got a bunch of ddr3 8gb server ram and some drives for that model if you’re interested
I have loads of 8GB modules from DL380 machines if you are UK based?
Get the fan mod for the BIOS, your ears will thank you
What fan mod?
Thanks.
WHAT DID YOU SAY
I may have some. I’d have to check.
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
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.
