Gen 6 HP Proliant DL380 servers worth it 2020

[krep]

Hey Everyone,

 

I have a family member that just retired and wanting to get rid of some his old server equipment. im wondering if it worth using these in 2020. He has 6 of them and wants $175CAD each i would only need one not sure how may dives hes going to give with each.

 

I'm really not doing much with it but would probably used for something like plex and file storage and maybe hosting some game server.

 

Gen 6 HP Proliant DL380 servers.

Dual Xeon 2.4 GHz processors

16 GB RAM

8 2.5" drive slots- 4 Hot swappable trays with 160 GIG SATA drives

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id probbly try to get a newer system for a home server if you can. THose pries aren't great, and newer systems are muchmore power effiecent and faster, and not thata much more money

[krep]

was thinking of getting a new system and turning my i7 4790k into a server not sure what the power difference would be and i would still need a few hard drives.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, krep said:

was thinking of getting a new system and turning my i7 4790k into a server not sure what the power difference would be and i would still need a few hard drives.

ye aa 4790k would use much less power, those systems often idle at around 50w, where the hp server is probably 100+w idle.

 

The hp systme comes with drives, but 160gb drives are basically useless these days, get a single bigger drive.

[krep]

should have jump on that 10tb shuckable drive i saw the other day o well.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, krep said:

should have jump on that 10tb shuckable drive i saw the other day o well.

yea those are the best value drives these days, thats what id get for storage.

Depending on your os, probably something like a small ssd for boot aswell.

[svmlegacy]

13 minutes ago, krep said:

Hey Everyone,

 

I have a family member that just retired and wanting to get rid of some his old server equipment. im wondering if it worth using these in 2020. He has 6 of them and wants $175CAD each i would only need one not sure how may dives hes going to give with each.

 

I'm really not doing much with it but would probably used for something like plex and file storage and maybe hosting some game server.

 

Gen 6 HP Proliant DL380 servers.

Dual Xeon 2.4 GHz processors

16 GB RAM

8 2.5" drive slots- 4 Hot swappable trays with 160 GIG SATA drives

That's pretty much exactly what mine is doing, minus the plex. (Just never got into plex.) 175 is a bit steep unless they're in a dual processor config. I run a few minecraft servers in VM's, MySQL, Samba and another VM for distcc compiling, and it runs quiet all day long, provided it agrees with the drives. I like the hot-swap raid array.

[OddOod]

If you have the space for it, I highly recommend separating storage from compute. I have an old TS440 for my storage (considering tossing an HBA on top of it to go past 8 drives), which is dirt cheap and pretty low power draw, then for my plex/VM box I have a TR 1920X custom system in a Phantex Eclipse mid tower

[krep]

humm looks like the Seagate Expansion 10TB is still on sale though also looks like lowest sale ever has been $200. no rush maybe ill wait till black friday and see what shows up. Apparently can be Iron wolf drive inside guess thats pretty good price for it then.

 

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/seagate-expansion-10tb-desktop-external-hard-drive-steb10000400/13873749