My university had excedent servers after cloud migration and were going to throw them out. Any tips for sourcing drives and ram?
Look at the options of what is compatible. You can look online by the parts numbers listed in this document.
HPE Proliant DL380 Gen 8 data sheet: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/c04123238
I have loads of 8GB modules from DL380 machines if you are UK based?
Lots of parts for these as these g8s and g9s are being recycled, ebay has a lot of great oem parts cheap. I have a dl360 gen 8 and gen 9
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
I’ve got a bunch of ddr3 8gb server ram and some drives for that model if you’re interested
Free servers tend to cost a LOT of money.
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.
ebay
low density sticks are pretty cheap
drives? ebay or serverpartdeals… Servers usually support SAS disks, and sometimes you can find those for cheap since there is lower 2nd hand market demand.
Pictures that you can hear
It’s not really that loud once it’s finished booting.
