Looking for Used Server

[xl3b4n0nx]

I am starting to look into getting a used rack mount enterprise grade server. I am new to this realm of hardware and I am not sure what servers would be good choices or not. I plane to use it for VMs and a Plex server. I want it to have many cores (12 or more) and support for about 64GB of DDR3 RAM. I need to have room for drive expansion beyond the few multi TB drives I have. Non-proprietary connectors and psus would be ideal. I would appreciate any recommendations of what servers to look at or even building my own rack mount system.

[GDRRiley]

look at old dell r710s. can have dual 6 cores and 128gb of ram, some have 6x 3.5in drive bays. 

[xl3b4n0nx]

Thanks I will look into those. Would you recommend having a separate storage box on the same gigabit network? I won't need anything faster than gigabit for my set up.

[GDRRiley]

4 minutes ago, xl3b4n0nx said:

Thanks I will look into those. Would you recommend having a separate storage box on the same gigabit network? I won't need anything faster than gigabit for my set up.

no I would use the 6 drive bays they have and use 1 core and 2 threads for file sharing. 

[Pixel5]

what will you run on the VM´s?

 

keep in mind that all of this old server hardware is power hungry and loud so unless you need all that power you are better of with a lower power and loudness solution.

[NelizMastr]

Just some advice on hardware generations:

 

socket 771: AVOID. Power hungry and slow, cheap to buy.

socket 1366: great starting option, get 6-core Xeon L CPUs for better efficiency. Reasonably priced and lots of options on the market now.

socket 2011-0: best bang for the buck. Dual E5-26xx chips can be had for as little as $100, including 6-cores. Dual 8-core from $160 ish.

socket 2011-3: too expensive. current gen.

[Oxydoreduction]

6 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

Just some advice on hardware generations:

 

socket 771: AVOID. Power hungry and slow, cheap to buy.

socket 1366: great starting option, get 6-core Xeon L CPUs for better efficiency. Reasonably priced and lots of options on the market now.

socket 2011-0: best bang for the buck. Dual E5-26xx chips can be had for as little as $100, including 6-cores. Dual 8-core from $160 ish.

socket 2011-3: too expensive. current gen.

I would add the socket 3647, the newest for xeon scalable. Even more expensive.

 

Built my latest server based on dual socket 2011-0. It works more than perfectly and is not power hungry at all.