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Got this for literally free. Ram sticks and drives are missing. Any tips for sourcing the parts? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by MemeTrader11@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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My university had excedent servers after cloud migration and were going to throw them out. Any tips for sourcing drives and ram?

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[–] Strelock@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

eBay for RAM, should be pretty cheap for used stuff. Also, drive caddies eBay or Amazon, there are companies that make clones that work just as well as the originals. HP wants you to buy their drives, which were really just rebadged drives at 5-6 times the price. I'm assuming this is a SAS machine, if you want new drives you can use SATA drives in a SAS controller (can't go the other way) and it will work just fine for a home server. If you are fine with used, SAS drives are on eBay for pretty cheap.