$5.00 Dell Server
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I went around to various yard sales today and I think I just struck a bargain!
I bought a Dell PowerEdge T310 server computer. For $5.
It turns on and everything, and the hardware inside looks practically pristine. It even came with 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz ECC RAM, a Xeon CPU, and a PCIe 8x RAID controller. I just need to throw in a SATA drive and a cheap PCIe video card and this thing is golden.
What should I do with it? Keep for something? Sell it for profit?
Home file server?
If you don't have any purpose for it, sell it now before it becomes obsolete.
Make a shill free /g/
poo in it and sell it on ebay
>>55030600
How much power do these desktops use? I already have a couple USB hard drives connected to my router for backups and general NAS.
What OS should I throw on it? As well as a cheap video card?
>>55030567
Is it missing the power supply?
>>55030641
>>it turns on and everything
>is it missing the power supply
>>55030637
They're not desktops. Shuck the hard drives if they're 3.5" and put them in there. Run ESXi or Proxmox or whatever on it. Forget a video card, look for a DRAC card.
>>55030641
It's there, it's just hidden in the enclosure thing.
>>55030616
How much is a fair price, as-is?
>>55030688
Maybe 60 dollars depending on specs. 4x2GB DIMMs are worthless, it has no drives, and it could have the most basic Xeon ever.
>>55030688
4 bucks