Anthony, I have purchased the refurb hardware at tiger with mixed results. Although servers don't typically get physically abused during their working lives the decommissioning process may leave things missing. Tiger, Staples, newegg all use third party refurber's. It's always a gamble.
John Bertelsen On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 10:26 AM Anthony Carrico <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone told me he contacted another vender listing the same HPE server > sku at the same price who said it doesn't have RAM or CPU, even though > it is listed with 3104 / 8G. > > On 10/20/20 11:11 AM, Rene Churchill wrote: > > FYI, https://labgopher.com/ is a very dangerous website. It scrapes > > eBay for server auctions and classifies them by RAM and CPU. > > > > Great for buying old server boxes tho' > > Nice. It probably helps if you are familiar with the CPU generations. I > don't follow them that closely. My desktop is a xeon E5-2650 v2; super > stable (compared to the core i7 here). I could probably get another one > of those on ebay, but it is needlessly power hungry idling all the time, > and would cut the UPS time down quite a bit from the current solution. > I think I've been through this logic loop before and just stuck with the > old AMD. > > Also someone says keep an eye open for $350 price on Dell PowerEdge T40 > tower. Downside with that it has only three drive bays. But it does look > like a nice CPU. > > Thanks > > -- > Anthony Carrico >
