September 20, 20214 yr 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.
September 20, 20214 yr 37 minutes ago, Bankan said: hardware RAID controller Not recommended for Unraid
September 20, 20214 yr Author 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.
September 20, 20214 yr Lots of threads about this. Try this search in Google: raid it mode site:forums.unraid.net
September 20, 20214 yr Also see the pinned threads at the top of this subforum: https://forums.unraid.net/forum/33-storage-devices-and-controllers/
September 20, 20214 yr Author Excellent, thanks, @trurl, appreciate your help and will give it a read!
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