Just Got An Amazing Deal Of The Year

[Iliyria]

I just purchased this on eBay @ a very cheap price for 2 PowerEdge T630 servers (with HDDs (16x900GB and 4x 2TB)) for only $147.50 for everything. Only reason I got it so cheap was because Im local and the seller would only ship to people via freight. Now I have my backup replication server(s) for my homelab

[Dylan]

That's a great deal! What are your deployment/configuration plans?

[Iliyria]

3 hours ago, Dylan said:

That's a great deal! What are your deployment/configuration plans?

Right now the front runner plan is to use 1 of the T630s to replace my VM server (Precision T7810). Upgrade that T630 with 2x 20 core CPUs and make that my VM server. Then possibly "donate" the other T630 to a friend that has been wanting to upgrade/replace his older Synology NAS with the stipulation that I can use it as well as my offsite backup server vs paying Dropbox about $30.00 a month. Finally take the Precision T7810 (current VM server) and use that as my TrueNAS replication server.

 

I knew I should have bought multiple HexOS licenses when they were $99  lol

Edited May 10 by Iliyria

[Mobius]

Sounds like a generous and solid plan.

41 minutes ago, Iliyria said:

I knew I should have bought multiple HexOS licenses when they were $99  lol

I had the same thoughts back then too. Thankfully i caved and bought 2 licenses.

[Dylan]

19 hours ago, Mobius said:

Sounds like a generous and solid plan.

I had the same thoughts back then too. Thankfully i caved and bought 2 licenses.

Samsies.

[fren shaped]

On 5/8/2025 at 6:10 PM, Iliyria said:

I just purchased this on eBay @ a very cheap price for 2 PowerEdge T630 servers (with HDDs (16x900GB and 4x 2TB)) for only $147.50 for everything. Only reason I got it so cheap was because Im local and the seller would only ship to people via freight. Now I have my backup replication server(s) for my homelab

Nice score!

May I suggest to monitor the power consumption for a bit after getting everything up and running? If power is cheap around your parts you probably don't need to worry, but if it is not, things could quickly add up, as tends to be the case with anything running 24/7 and doubly so with more venerable hardware. It's probably fine, but just so you don't get blindsided by a big bill.

That being said, tinkering with server hardware can be lots of fun. Desktop hardware is cool and all, but the specialized enterprise features they put on servers can be interesting to play around with. If you're not familiar, be sure to check out the iDRAC!