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Thanks. I’m not actually planning to use the 2.5” bays as like you mentioned, there’s not much comparable drives out there. The buyer also mentioned that there’s a workaround to get the PSU in ‘slient’ mode by editing the SDR (https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/sdr-editing-for-a-quiet-intel-s2600ip4-in-a-p4000-chassis.15521/) but I have no idea how effective that would be. I guess that’s the dilemma if new vs existing old. My original plan was to build a NAS using the Jonsbo N3 case and probably an older gen Ryzen. But just the case itself will cost about half of what this old server costs.

While shopping around for a new server to run run HexOS, I came across a local listing for a used P4000 for about USD$230 with the following specs: MOBO: S2600IP4 CPU: 2x E5-2670 RAM: 128GB (1333) 1x 8 Slot 2.5” Hotswap bay 1 x 4 Slot 3.5” Hotswap bay IPMI LAN port 2x Intel RAID card 2x 1200W redundant PSU Is this overkill for a HexOS setup to run a file storage, media hosting and maybe Home Assistant + local video recoding thru Frigate? My concerns would be that this is a PCIe gen 3 system and also the memory is running slower.