[olug] Looking for a larger server, not necessiarly new.

[Matthew G. Marsh]

Dell PowerEdge 2950 III 2x 3.16GHz QC X5460 32GB 2x 146GB HD PERC 6/i

is now ~$300 on ebay. I got one back in 2013 and it is my primary ESXi 
server (currently on 5.5)  - It will take 2Tb SATA drives and there is a 
special ESX command to tell it to ignore the write ahead cache so that it 
will quit complaining about them. Still running.

ESXi has an installer just for Dell. I messed around with many custom 
boxen before finally just going with the flow and getting supported 
hardare.

mgm

On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Dan Linder wrote:

> I'm looking to build a home VMware server to brush up on my skills and
> pursue my education and I'm looking for an 8+ core system with 32+GB RAM
> (I'll supply HDD).  A NewEgg system with new components (AMD 8-core, 32GB
> RAM, MB, 1KWatt powersupply) is around $600.
>
> I'm going to check at GoodBytes, but are there other places I should keep
> in mind for older used server-class systems?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
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