Second Hand Server Rack PC

[Bankan]

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:

 

1. If anyone had any experience setting up a second hand rack server? Is there something I should watch out for?
2. 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.

 

 

[trurl]

37 minutes ago, Bankan said:

hardware RAID controller

Not recommended for Unraid

[Bankan]

10 minutes ago, trurl said:

Not recommended for Unraid

 

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.

[trurl]

Lots of threads about this. Try this search in Google:

raid it mode site:forums.unraid.net

 

[trurl]

Also see the pinned threads at the top of this subforum:

https://forums.unraid.net/forum/33-storage-devices-and-controllers/

[Bankan]

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