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Excellent, thanks, @trurl, appreciate your help and will give it a read!

I appreciate your response @trurl, unfortunately, I don't see any second hand rack servers (formerly enterprise ones) that don't have a built in RAID controller. Do you have any recommendations or is it just DIY / buy a second hand one & try to disable it as per this thread.

Hello everyone, I am in the market for a second hand server rack and wondered if anyone had any experience setting one up? I have been looking at both HP & Dell on ebay in the UK. For example: HP DL380p Gen8 G8 12*LFF Dell R720 I have seen a few postings on the HP DL380p as it has a hardware RAID controller, like the Dell ones. I just wondered: If anyone had any experience setting up a second hand rack server? Is there something I should watch out for? Any recommendations on servers that are easy to setup? I will be using the server as a NAS w/ VMs / containers running newsgroup items and Plex server. Though plex server won't need any transcoding.