Specs are slightly in flux right now, but basically it's an HP ML310e Gen 8, with a random HDD cage on top for 4 additional drives, and a bunch of fans zip tied to the front to cool the 6 internal drives. Oh, and a little 7" display stuck to the side which I'll get a stats readout on soon.
It's running Unraid and I use it as a media server (Plex, Sonarr, Radarr) as well as a backup for my music and video production, and general stuff (NextCloud, Photoprism).
The machine itself is so stupid and hacked together, built entirely from used parts I got cheap on ebay. It's probably cost me £300 max, all in.
It is huge. it fills the full volume of an Ikea Kallax opening, I have mine hanging out so wires in back against the wall have some room...plus some airflow.
if the Kallax wasn't against a wall it would slide back all the way. It has plastic feed about 12-15 mm tall (I think) feet are about 3mm too tall so I trimmed them. But on thingverse somebody made a 3d printer model for replacing them.
Does anyone have tips on how to source large capacity hard drives on the cheap? I was a silly and didn't set my storage to be redundant and I'm trying to rectify that.
Really now? Whereabouts are you looking for deals like that? Are there any limitations concerning sas drives, other than the different connection? Can they be pooled with SATA drives?
How is that ghetto lol. Now, I’d understand if you were like me with a crusty ass laptop in the corner of my room 2500km away from me, running some Linux and 4 external hard drives, but Xeon and ghetto?
I mainly installed the screen as an easy way to see what's happening during boot, so I don't have to lug the server into the other room and connect it to a monitor when I make changes to things. I'm planning on setting up a stats readout so it's useful the rest of the time - things like network status/traffic, disk/cpu utilisation etc.
I literally just bought a monitor just like this. It just arrived. It's still in the packaging.
I had my Linux install die on me (due to my own stupidity, but I recovered it), and I needed to move my monitor from my gaming PC into the closet where my server lives. This isn't the first time I've had to do something like that, and I was over it. So mini monitor for $40 it is!