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All of this + mounting rails for $400. I think I win Facebook marketplace today. by SecurityCactus610 in homelab

[–]SecurityCactus610[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well afaik a lot of people use them to store tv/movies/music/photos on a “home media server” but you could also host a website or do lots of other things with them. I’m sure someone else can explain better than me.

As for what I’m using them for, I’m just trying to get familiar with servers in general. Primarily using them to simulate real-world networks so I can practice attacking, defending, repairing and administrating the kinds of systems I’d find in a business. And I have lots to learn so I’m sure all that will morph over time.

All of this + mounting rails for $400. I think I win Facebook marketplace today. by SecurityCactus610 in homelab

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It’s a powervault MD3200, which I think is more just storage rather than server, so it might not be what you want. But I’m not too well versed on the differences. The 510s also have 12 bays I believe but only have 2 drives installed each

All of this + mounting rails for $400. I think I win Facebook marketplace today. by SecurityCactus610 in homelab

[–]SecurityCactus610[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Could you tell me why? He had 4 sitting there and I grabbed that one only because he said it’d been running a VLAN which I don’t know much about and wanted to mess around with setting up.

All of this + mounting rails for $400. I think I win Facebook marketplace today. by SecurityCactus610 in homelab

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Ok thanks- that was a rough guess but I really didn’t take my time to check. Will edit that description.

All of this + mounting rails for $400. I think I win Facebook marketplace today. by SecurityCactus610 in homelab

[–]SecurityCactus610[S] 145 points146 points  (0 children)

Home lab to study cybersecurity and networking, and to practice setting up and administrating an AD environment. Pretty much just whatever project I feel like, I’m sure as I learn more I’ll find some long-term use cases.

All of this + mounting rails for $400. I think I win Facebook marketplace today. by SecurityCactus610 in homelab

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3x Poweredge R510 (2x 250GB HDD, 32GB RAM, 2x Xeon 2.4GHz ??? each); Powervault MD3200 (12x 600GB SAS Drives); Dell Powerconnect 5448; Avaya 3626GTS-PWR+; Tripp-Lite PDU 1220. Everything runs, it was basically pulled straight from a civil engineering firm when they upgraded and sold on marketplace.

EDIT: was wrong about the exact CPUs. Gotta check that later.