In Seattle, and probably other places as well, you can often find good used equipment at places like Re-PC and 3R Technology.
Kurt On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:49 AM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: > Look at an older precision workstations, they have pretty much the same guts > as servers. I’m running T5400’s at home with 24GB and dual quad core 2GHz > Xeons. Can be found pretty cheap on ebay. Last one I picked up was around > $300 a year ago. They use the same RAM as Poweredge 2900’s. > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 9:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Looking for Hyper-V server hardware > > > > I’d think whiteboxing would not be viable since a Xeon proc and 32GB of RAM > will just about consume your $500 right off the bat. > > > > Why does it have to be a Xeon? A quad core i5 whitebox might be doable for > $500. > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of David Lum > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Looking for Hyper-V server hardware > > > > My old home lab PowerEdge 840 server is giving me issues so I’m looking to > upgrade, looking to spend ~500 (can be used, obviously!). Ideally I’d like a > tower server populated with 32GB RAM. I’m not picky on brand (partial to > Dell because that’s what my clients run, but not a requirement) but do want > Xeon instead of the AMD equivalent. The closest I can find is a Dell T300 > populated with 24GB RAM for about $500 shipped, which would work (the 840 > has only 8GB RAM!). > > > > Since this is for my home lab I don’t mind building a white box system > either. Suggestions anyone? Dell Outlet prices are out of my price range… > > > > · Tower > > · Xeon proc > > · 24+GB installed > > · HDD’s / optical drive not necessary, I have my own > > David Lum > Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 > >
