My university had excedent servers after cloud migration and were going to throw them out. Any tips for sourcing drives and ram?
I would recommend eBay. It’s how I got parts for my free PowerEdge 1950 and a few old ass laptops.
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 loads of 8GB modules from DL380 machines if you are UK based?
Do it eBay my friend.
I may have some. I’d have to check.
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?
Is it worth the electricity costs?
I’ve got a bunch of ddr3 8gb server ram and some drives for that model if you’re interested
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
If you’re in Canada, look for ANK servers, on Ebay. Easy to deal with, and lots of parts for this sort of server.
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.
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.
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.
