We Bought a Server on eBay | Dell PowerEdge R510

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00:00 Intro Dell Poweredge R510
00:35 CD Koffers
01:30 Why did we buy a Server
04:30 What to expect from an eBay Server
05:45 Drives for the R510

#ebay #dell #server #nas #poweredge

[superstar]

Thanks, now I'm working on the 8 bay version of this server because I don't need 12 drive spaces and I love Dell's diagnostic screens they've been putting in.

[Jules_Diplopia]

Now I think I know why I like you... you have that same mad love of tech, even old tech that I have. Back in the 80's I picked up no end of old servers at auctions across the UK. If I was still fit and able, this new Covid induced recession would be a great time to do so again.

Enjoy.

[poisonouscarnage]

I picked up a hp p4500 g2 for £150, free shipping, all the caddies, 1 cpu and 24gb of ram. Sold as working and had pictures of the actual server wich look decent with some marks etc. I’m so excited

[DenofLore]

Thanks now I know where the internal drive bay is in my R510.

[alexandru-danielpopovici]

For around 500 € you can get it with 12x 2TB drives (each drive is not huge but redundancy is the key word here). One R510 like that usually pops up every month. I got mine for way less, but that is a once in a year opportunity ( and even then you have to constantly hunt ). Best wishes going further.

[HowToCyber]

I’m probably gonna be doing this as well down the road. Would love to see you set it up as well.

[ximenoworks]

I JUST bought one for a price tag of only 200$ with rails. On mine I notice the CPU heat sink was loose and one of the mem stick is bad. I'm gonna use it as my TruNAS server with PLEX. The bad thing is I NEED 2 put in 2 cards. One is a Intel NIC card and a LSI card for my array because BSD does not like Broadcom chips that is in Dell servers. I do need to remove the DELL raid to a normal LSI card in order for TrueNAS to work. I found the OFF LEASE equipment to be more reliable and more robust than the home consumer grade stuff.

[hiashorst]

I whould highly advice you to make a raid configuration, when this drive dies everything is lost. Raid 5 for example.... 4 drives / 4 TB each =16TB.... In Raid 5 you then have 12 TB but one drive can fail and youre still fine nothings lost until 2 drives fail at the same time...

[joshuajacques]

Nice video. I found the same love of cheap ebay severs a few years ago, also starting with a 12 bay R510. :')

I'm curious what kind of OS did you end up putting on this thing? I'm surprised you went with just a single disk to store everything. How do you manage data, and what about when you need to upgrade and add more drives? An alternate option would be to have gone with maybe 12 eBay enterprise disks (building for redundancy) as that would make not only speed much better but disk redundancy and ease of upgrading your storage pool.

Obviously it depends on how you're doing all of the above, but now I'm curious. 😁

[northernnugget]

Hey! one day i believe your going to be one of the biggest tech channels on youtube. :)

[joemecca]

Hey! I just bought the same model from eBay. But where is the power supply ???

[scalamasterelectros]

Bro shack all your internal hdds and you will have somthing to stuff your server with