Buying used servers off Ebay?

[javcarbe]

this is a good option ?
Supermicro 2U SC826 chassis with 12 3.5" hotswap bays! It includes 32GB of ecc ram, 2x Intel Xeon E5205 cpus, LSI sas2008 based sas2 / sata3 controller, SAS2 expander, and an industrial boot SSD, 800W hotswap PSU, rackmount rails, all drive trays and screws, plus

 

[danb35]

The chassis/controller/backplane/PSU all sound good. The CPUs (and therefore the motherboard) are very old, and the accompanying FSB would greatly reduce your system performance. If it's a good price, you could figure that you're buying it for the chassis, and plan to swap in a new motherboard.

 

[javcarbe]

decent cpu and motherboard ?

 

[danb35]

decent cpu and motherboard ?

Check the hardware recommendations guide.