JTheNASBuilder
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- Feb 4, 2014
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My old Windows Home Server is getting dangerously old at this point and I really need to hop on building something better. As I'm shopping for parts for a FreeNAS build I'm finding that large multi-bay cases from the likes of Norco and SuperMicro cost $300-500 just for the bare metal and drive cages (not a spec of hardware inside). Yet on eBay and CL you can find used SuperMicro servers with all the hardware inside for $300-500.
Is there any good reason to avoid buying a used SuperMicro server off eBay? I don't need current generation hardware (my WHS is running on 10 year old hardware with a Celeron processor after all). I'm more than happy to upgrade from my very old consumer desktop-turned-NAS to a perfectly acceptable (albeit slightly outdated) set of actual server hardware.
Is there any good reason to avoid buying a used SuperMicro server off eBay? I don't need current generation hardware (my WHS is running on 10 year old hardware with a Celeron processor after all). I'm more than happy to upgrade from my very old consumer desktop-turned-NAS to a perfectly acceptable (albeit slightly outdated) set of actual server hardware.