dmoney517 Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Hi all - I have been using unRaid for a few years now on an old PC build that I had gathering dust. It is running an AMD Phenom Quad Core 2200 with 8 GB RAM (DDR2, it is OLD). As I use it primarily as a Plex Server, and NAS backup for files, pics, videos, etc, it has been holding up well. Starting to out grow it now - No more room for drives, and it really isnt able to run VMs, which I would like to do. I was looking at used server hardware on ebay, and a few things caught me eye...But I have ZERO experince with real server hardware, so I need to be sure that these things will work before I buy. For Example, I like the look of the below dell poweredve r510... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R510-2x-Xeon-X5675-3-06GHZ-16GB-2x8GB-RAM-Server-NO-HDD/392089123683?epid=513019832&hash=item5b4a553b63%3Ag%3AWrAAAOSw4-1bWJwQ%3Asc%3AUSPSPriority%2120187%21US%21-1&_sacat=0&_nkw=dell+poweredge+r510&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1311.R11.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xdell+poweredge.TRS0 Would I be able to buy some sleds, and move my existing drives into this server, and be up and running? Are there things I should watch out for when shopping for a server? Any advice is appreciated. Quote Link to comment
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