I was browsing ebay last night, I was looking for a new Alloy for my car since it’s damaged a little. A while later I started browsing through some computer related stuff, then I managed to get into the Server / Enterprise items.
After a while I found a few low-cost servers. I put an offer in for one of them, but it was rejected with 3 minutes to the listing ending. After that I just paid the full amount for it since it seemed good value.
It’s a HP Proliant DL380 G3 but it didn’t come with any hard drives, which is probably the reason it was the price it was. As soon as I’d purchased it I went looking for drives for it, needless to say SCSI drives are quite expensive, and quite a bit more than the server. I did however manage to find a HP 146GB (10K RPM) for £20 so that was good, or at least in my opinion.
I am looking to get a SCSI to SATA thing so I can put cheaper drives in it, but if it comes to it I’ll find another low price server with a few drives in it to use.