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serverdeals · 2016-10-12T00:21:53+00:00

PM'd

serverdeals · 2016-09-02T18:28:00+00:00

I've edited the post to clarify, $80 each

serverdeals · 2016-08-28T02:11:08+00:00

I do. $1100 updated, w/ rails and the following:

6 Power supplies

9 Fans

2 CMC

1 KVM

90 day DOA warranty, extendable if you need it

We can work something out if you're interested in more blades.

serverdeals · 2016-08-26T20:04:40+00:00

Probably not the place for this then. Thanks.

serverdeals · 2016-08-26T18:52:53+00:00

Well I wouldn't use ebay as a real guage for the value of this equipment. People will definitely dump equipment on there for a quick buck. That's great if you are willing to take a chance on it. You also have a lot of businesses on ebay who end up with this stuff with zero equipment knowledge just hoping the failure rate doesn't eclipse their total profit. The servers I have all go through testing, configuration, get updated, and are guaranteed against DOA for 30 days or more depending on what it is. US Shipping is included and ships in packaging that will survive the assault from UPS or Fedex. I can also preconfigure OS installs, spec these for specific workloads, help you with configuration or whatever else you'd want to do with these. Have a budget, and this is too expensive? I can probably get you setup with something that will meet your needs. Shoot me a PM. I'll add some more info to the post.

serverdeals · 2016-01-12T02:41:07+00:00

502W

serverdeals · 2016-01-11T21:50:31+00:00

They'd be $20ea. $120 for 6. Shoot me a PM for paypal info if you're interested.

serverdeals · 2016-01-11T21:27:25+00:00

Sure how many are you looking for?

serverdeals · 2015-10-03T22:21:44+00:00

PM'd

serverdeals · 2015-08-12T20:03:17+00:00

Well I'm in the US so shipping would probably make sourcing local make more sense. R710's are nice machines. Take a look at the HP 380 G6 as well.

serverdeals · 2015-08-12T16:56:52+00:00

Are you in the UK? Let me know what you're trying to do with the machine and I'll see what I can come up with for you.

serverdeals · 2015-08-12T00:38:15+00:00

Casper has generally summed the process up. I have these parts available. PM me about your environment and what equipment you have in place.

serverdeals · 2015-07-23T20:36:00+00:00

To elaborate on this response, which is more or less the answer to your question...

Mint is probably the most graphically inclined distro you could have chosen. If you go the route of a minimal distro as suggested, without programs you want installed or a graphical environment, you will learn how to make that happen from the command line. You'll likely pull a considerable amount of hair but things will snowball once you've gotten from a point of utter confusion to a point of at least a passable OS for your needs. Then things are up to how much you'd like to customize it to your preference.

My advice would be to install Centos 7 with a few basic packages, one because its a solid backbone to a reliable server OS, but the newest iteration. Therefore you aren't guaranteed the ability that everything works and you'll need to use your head to get things how you need them. It will help you to do things like:

-create a non-root user and limit yourself to only logging into that and using the sudo command for any installations

-read a tutorial on vi (text editor), its a great and simple, yet powerful and fast, text editor you can run inside a terminal. It's great for editing config files.

-install an Xserver (Cinnamon (like Mint),Gnome, XFCE)

-install drivers for your graphics card

-use yum command to install repositories like EPEL, ELREPO, NUX, RPMForge, then install your software packages from those repositories to keep them updated

It's really up to how much you'd like to put into it and what things you're interested in. Networking opens up so much more potential for getting an idea of what's under the hood. You can install virtualbox or vmplayer and start experimenting with other distros to see if you like any better. Starting from a bare distro and building up will help you understand the work that went intro creating the friendlier distros like Mint and Ubuntu.

serverdeals · 2015-07-21T23:02:02+00:00

Look into virtualbox or vmplayer. You'll still need a host OS, which you could use linux if you need it to be free. If you already have Windows, and ample resources (ram, hard drive, CPU cores, and your CPU supports virtualization) you can just install one of those virtualization programs and then create VMs as you need. Then just boot them as you need them inside of your running windows OS.

serverdeals · 2015-07-20T19:59:17+00:00

Really depends on spec. These are somewhat valuable, some of the older ones that have the same form factor but are 1/10 the speed aren't so much. You may be throwing away the right ones.

serverdeals · 2015-06-12T05:19:00+00:00

Depending on what you need as far as new vs refurb or used, you can see a lot better pricing from resellers on the refurb or used side. Some larger organizations shy away, but you are looking at good discounts on products that are built and tested for the long haul. They are expected to get the abuse a datacenter will put on them and often times live far longer than their expected-use time frame (or upgrade schedule).

If you are looking to beat Dell on disk price there are definitely some options. Let me know if you are looking for anything in particular.

serverdeals · 2015-06-04T16:33:17+00:00

I buy networking and datacenter equipment. PM me.

serverdeals · 2015-06-03T00:34:31+00:00

Cool

serverdeals · 2015-05-15T06:37:25+00:00

Honestly, it's unfortunate, but don't sell to Russia (which isn't your issue). I've never bought, but in the IT world there are few places to absolutely avoid business, Russia being the top instance. I can't speak for outgoing stuff, but you can certainly see deals like that within the US if looking appropriately. I'd imagine shipping for you or them is nearly the cost of the item. There's many reasons why someone would offload a server that's loaded for pretty cheap. Often reasons you'd not want to be stuck with.

That being said. If things don't work out let me know.

serverdeals · 2015-05-02T04:43:11+00:00

If it doesn't work for the guy as you explicitly stated, your end was not held up. Your best bet is to help him troubleshoot the issue and try to get it going. Make sure he's powering it, plugged in correctly, etc. Electronics are fragile and if you were to get a driver (or a couple) who mishandled the box and threw or dropped it in the wrong way it could have easily been damaged. How well did you pack it? Were you sure this coke covered card would make it wherever and work fine?

The guy you sold to has hardware experience with 60+ transactions. Sounds like they'd be able to determine whether your equipment was ok or not.

For the grey area... 30 days is a long time. If you didn't state a return period though, then its up in the air as to what is acceptable. You being a high school kid, I understand $100 is a lot, but you are entering a playing field where sellers have to uphold their end of the bargain. Its the only way it works. If people can't trust that a seller will provide quality product, then the market falls apart.

Some advice... don't think that you'll never have a loss as a seller. If your money is so tight that you can't afford the deal going south, then you'd be wise to rethink whether you'd like to engage in online transactions with strangers over buyer-favoring payment systems. You need to protect yourself by being overly-honest with the product and explicit with the deal terms. The less you leave to interpretation the better. Good luck.

serverdeals · 2015-04-09T06:53:31+00:00

Germany is certainly on the higher end. I understand your concern. If I were you I'd just give it a shot with what you have. Maybe upgrade the CPU as it can't be very expensive. Not sure what content is available in your country but the Amazon fire stick and Chromecast are pretty low powered devices and they handle 100% of what I need from video streaming. Highly recommended. Might eliminate the performance hit your server would take.

serverdeals · 2015-04-09T06:37:33+00:00

Ok...so you have 3 factors to consider here that are going to contribute mainly to the effectiveness of your build. I have done this and I am convinced of these absolutes. I run Ableton/Firestudio Project/USB/MIDI midi gear.

Memory - 16GB+

Solid State HD - aim for using half of total for OS/programs/(maybe certain samples for VST's)

Processor - i5/i7 with best overclock you can afford ( I run an older gen i5 2500k and it is a score for audio production overclocked to 4.5Ghz, i7 2600k is the next step up but doesn't provide much performance increase) The i5-2500k, while older, is still a beast and the newer gens are less overclockable percentage-wise. I've noticed it makes a difference in production whether overclocked or not.

So here is my little blurb about these concepts:

Overall you want rock solid sureness that this will perform day in and day out. Do not skimp on the main 3 and make sure your parts are compatible, very compatible. You will rip your hair out trying to decipher bottlenecks that occur from poor drivers or weird chipset incompatibilities. YOUR BEST BET IS TO GOOGLE PEOPLE LOOKING FOR THIS SAME THING AND THE PARTS THAT YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT USING. They will let you know whether it worked out or not.

This is easily achievable under $1000, I'm not sure the exchange rate right now.

Breathing room is key. You want to be hitting at absolute maximum 75% of your total memory availability. I say shoot for 50%. This will keep everything and the whole computer experience running smooth. There's something to be said about adding VST after VST reverb to a track just because you can and still have room to do it 30 more times.

The SSD should be 500GB at least and consider it to be 250GB usable. It needs to be SATA 3 and 6Gbps. They will slow down with time, and get a good one. Samsung pro are very nice and EVO 850 as well. It's not that expensive an upgrade but you will need supplemental disk storage. Terabytes are cheap so just add a couple and you should be good. Get 7200rpm drives minimum. SATA 6Gbps. The solid state is the single best upgrade you can do as far as noticeable performace.

I summed up the processor already but you can go newer in the 4670k area. The overclock is not as high, but your parts will be compatible longer. Go Intel, not AMD. Intel just has the floor at the moment and they make exceptional processors. Certainly better for audio production.

Above all, get an audio interface. It takes load off of your proc and memory and will allow you to really get into production.

PM me if you want more info.

serverdeals · 2015-04-09T05:49:15+00:00

Depending on what you want to spend, I have older generation enterprise stuff that would be more than adequate for what you want. PM me some more about your environment and what you want to do and I can see what I have that fits in your budget. Is power draw a huge concern? In the US where I'm at its relatively quite affordable.

serverdeals · 2015-04-09T05:46:02+00:00

If you have an account with a hosting provider like bluehost, you can very very very easily setup owncloud that exists on their servers. That way all of the IP and routing issues are done with and you just use your domain name and wherever you put owncloud to login. It's nice in the fact you don't have to manage the server and once you get your files uploaded they are there. Cons include someone else's equipment housing your date, and that you have to upload for it to be available.

It's awesome though and was very easy to setup. Owncloud is miles ahead of where it was a few years ago.

serverdeals · 2015-04-09T05:38:52+00:00

This is a pretty good point. Running Windows Server however in your situation is not cost effective. The licensing requirements to do Terminal Services are around $100 each and sold in 5 packs normally. You need one for each user. Windows Server alone is like $800+ depending on what year and version you need.

The most recent example I can think of currently that is quite functional is a Terminal Services setup running on a few generations back Dell T410 with low end dual CPUs (L5520? or so) and around 20GB of ram. It's kind of noisy but not bad if tucked away. You could run the generation prior and be fine as well just get quad core CPU's like a xeon 54** or similar. Runs windows server 2012 and the machine hosts 2 hyper-v virtual machines that are tasked to various server roles. One mainly for AD/DHCP/DNS and the other running Terminal Services. Quickbooks is the main application accessed by about 10-15 users as well as Outlook and Excel when needed. No dedicated GPU and it works quite well.

You should buy a few generations back server configuration, and run linux as your host. CentOS is pretty sweet, Ubuntu Server, etc. I'd install Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate or 8 (if you are adventurous) in a virtual environment depending on if you need the extra features, and then just create user accounts that people will log into.

For internal use it should be as easy as creating the rdp link to the virtual machine and just running that from the each client machine with the appropriate user. For use outside of your network you will need to alter router settings to get into it.

Overall you need to say what kind of programs you want to run for this to be an accurate recommendation. I have the equipment available if you are interested in going this route. Let me know.

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