eBay

Is it worth the electricity costs?

Do it eBay my friend.

RAM can be bougt used on ebay. I recommend buying SATA drives instead of SAS drives if the system supports them. They are a lot cheaper.

I have loads of 8GB modules from DL380 machines if you are UK based?

I would look for things on ebay. Google the model and find the type of RAM it needs. Same with disks. Disk drives are pretty universal, as long as you have the trays needed for that server. You either need 2.5 or 3.5 inch SAS drives. I can’t tell from the photo. If you don’t have the drive trays, make sure you get trays for your drives from ebay too. SATA drives will also work, but you’ll have better luck with SAS drives since they’re enterprise spec and tend to be more reliable and last longer. With RAM, the only thing that’s really different from desktop RAM is that you want to make sure you get ECC(error checking) for a server.

Lots of parts for these as these g8s and g9s are being recycled, ebay has a lot of great oem parts cheap. I have a dl360 gen 8 and gen 9

I would recommend eBay. It’s how I got parts for my free PowerEdge 1950 and a few old ass laptops.

What is that FlexLOM card? It looks like a 530FLR dual-SFP+ module, which is a bit of an upgrade from the standard, plus maybe a 331T in a PCIe slot?

I have had few rack server RAM sticks around for so long (something like few GBs). If you let me know the exact model I will gift them to you (if the model matches). I’m based in Italy.

I may have some. I’d have to check.

cloudninjas.com has pretty decent deals on ram/ misc specifically for servers and will tell you if it fits yours or not. I got refurbed hdd’s on Amazon because I’m cheap, but at least they’re enterprise level.

From this angle, that looks like a DL380 G5. It’s not worth buying parts for. But if you must … EBAY, of course.

Get the fan mod for the BIOS, your ears will thank you

https://www.globalonetechnology.com/hp-proliant-dl380p-gen8-parts.htm