I used to work for a hosting company and we pretty much ended up chucking out (well, recycling) 5 year old Dell servers, once they had broken even and paid for themselves. The problem was that it would cost more in space and power to run them compared to newer, more powerful machines, and would cost more in man-hours and hassle than their value to list them on eBay. That might explain the scarcity of affordable servers on the used market.

Congratulations on 1k Subs mate. Lets hope this video keeeps blowing up!

Thank You for the shout out! What an AWESOME Server :-)

I brought a cheap HP server with 32 cores and 32gb ram and installed windows 10 pro into it without problems... using mine as a gaming rig :)

I'll give you £0.80 for it (is is now more used, after all).

So that's what they've been running rocket league on for all these years

hmmm would make a decent dedicated server for space engineers........... to the bay!

The flicker may be caused by camera and mains 50/60Hz mismatch. If you're in UK, set the camera to 50Hz anti-flicker.

Adjust your frame rate on the camera it should stop the lights flickering

Nice find! I won an IBM X3550 M2 in Nov lockdown for £22! Slightly older model but 1U - 1 x E5540 2.5Ghz and 16GB RAM. I had 4 x 2.5 drives from laptop SSD upgrades, bought a 2nd CPU & Heatsink for £10 and is now running a home AdGuard + Home Assistant + OwnCloud server.

I was a solid 12 minutes in until I realized this is not RandomGamingInHD...

Hah hah, I recognized the front of that machine before you even mentioned the model! I have pretty much the exact same machine, but with 64GB. of RAM and 8 x 600GB. SAS drives. I initially paid a little bit more for mine ($179 US), but it already had 32GB of RAM and 2 x 146GB SAS drives. You can find parts pretty much anywhere for them (cheap), and they're pretty much bulletproof and relatively quiet once they get through the initial startup. I think the stock RAID card is a ServeRaid 5150. I'm currently using mine as a Plex Media Server running on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server, plus it acts as a web server for some financial apps and a phpBB forum that I'm playing with. Great machines and fairly easy to set up. I have the IMM tied into my LAN so I can access it with a web browser and start or stop it at will without actually having to go to my little server/radio room.😉

Congrats on 1k subs!

£1 to buy, a fiver a day on electric.

That is quite alot of packing for a cheap IBM1015! Awesome machine for the price 😁

Yeah, I've seen these as well in this price bracket and the shipping comes out to about $52.00 U.S. dollars.

These are nice servers. Just sold my X3650 M3 as I got started with it but have several M4 and an M5

To correct the flickering you need to change the shutter speed of your cam and eventually change pal/ntsc depending on the power frequency in the UK

got reccomened this and enjoyed :)

You need to change the anti-flicker settings in your camera to 50hrz due to the power frequency we use in the UK. It is more common to see this with the leds

I remember when i bought a Qnap TS-251+ off amazon during a black friday sale a good few years back. Even though I have used ebay to buy lots of computer related stuff (im quite computer literate!) the idea never crossed my mind to pick up an older decommissioned/refurbished server unit from there.... I could have made quite a substantial saving! I remember i was looking at secondhand HP Proliant servers on ebay too! I have no idea why i never went for one in the end but i think it was something to do with the prices at the time. the cost difference between the proliant and Qnap were about the same. In any case, the TS-251+ is still going strong (i think i bought it 3 years ago???)

This will just be something an outside management company wasn’t assed about anymore, that a customer had no need to keep. Well in on the find.

Awesome and interesting video! Thanks for sharing :))

very intresting vid bro

Im your 1000 sub! Nice video :D

Nice video man

Nice find

We saw its got virtualization when you were in the setup, so I'd be tempted to install Xen and then have domains for all the x86 operating systems imaginable. With all those cores and filling up the RAM slots you'd get reasonable performance on each. Or install Qubes (which includes Xen and a Fedora based management domain) as a quick way of deploying a Xen-based system which would also offer above average security. To my mind that's what a box like this cries out for... By the way, it's straightforward to use Win 10 on a user domain within either Xen or Qubes: which is arguably more secure than running win 10 more conventionally.

My left ear loves this

I would make a max upgrade video, that would be really cool

You Lucky Bas.. :D i really need one and am watching for one since like one year.. :P

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Sad part is local scrap yards here in MD get tons of newer servers (pretty much by the pallet), but they won't resell them even without hard drives. I've seen some of them less than a year or two old. Sad to see all those goodies go to waste.

I think the flickering problem is due to pulse with modulation, the way modern LED lights reduce power output instead of modifying the current directly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation#Duty_cycle

Sweet. Inspiring, too. To think it's just 10 years old and would end up in a landfill... All those sweet sweet MIPS :D

what a score mate Still looks pretty good I wonder how good it renders videos in pinnacle studio 20

I'm sure you have been told this already but all you need to do to remove the flickering is switch the camera to 25 or 50fps to match the UK AC frequency of 50hz

Definitely a fine server for that price point, though I personally prefer a bit better bang for my TDP buck. I think the lowest configurable processor generation I'd want to keep around would be some Xeon E5 v0 processors on the LGA1567 platform. You can get decacore processors for those at around or below 145W TDP, and PC3-12800 ECC RAM is reasonably inexpensive if it doesn't have as much as you'd like. Regardless, what a great bargain you've acquired here.

Guess I should make a habit of checking ebay for servers now

how exactly did you find this for $1.37? teach me the ways

You win. I used to rack & stack those back in the day (pre Pandemic).

the flicker can be solved by changing the fps you record in

Ah, the venerable M1015. Great for cross-flashing to IT mode for use as a FreeNAS / TrueNAS server!

It's a good time to buy off eBay in the UK. Lockdown is making people very careful with money. Making it a buyer's market. I've got/seen things for half or less of the usual price in the last few weeks.

The LED lights you installed are not on all the time. They actually run on a clock at a certain frequency. Your camera shutter speed is close to the same frequency as the lights. That’s why you get the “strobe” effect. None the less, wonderful video

Your LEDs are using PWM to control brightness. The brighter they are, the less chopped up their signal is. You should be able to change the framerate of your video recordings to help with that.

On the camera problem, you have to sincronyze the refersh rate of the camera with the refresh rate of the lights.

Good servers. I work for the largest USA bank here in the UK, and we have around 1,700 of these 3650 M3's in service in the DC's here.

I e-wasted a one of those servers last year. I was tempted to rescue it, but it had a bad PSU fan, and I just went on a power draw crusade on my homelab. So an old Dual Xeon server wasn't looking like a good idea (Already had one with similar specs that I use as an offline backup).

I've just picked up a Dell T110 ii for free. Using mainly as a NVR/storage or general kitchen puter... Ideal as it only uses around 35W at idle and they run quiet.

Love your vids bro keep da work up

I got a similar model (without its original panel) as I can use it for my upcoming computer lab and is my personal storage server too. Model is System X3550 M3.

nice vapor dude

It's the frame rate you are recording in. Enjoied the video.

That's a lucky find!

I run off lease dell poweredge servers at my business I'm the US. Baffles my mind how powerful a machine I can buy for so little.

film at a multiple of 25 fps... that will help with the flicker, led lights are only on when voltage is high, i.e half the waveform of 240v @50hz.

Plot twist: Spyware ...

Very interesting! I need to dig out my Acorn Filestore 😳 one day

great price for the mighty x3650

I bought a dell poweredge r810 with 4 xeon E7 8837's for 89,99 pounds. I thought it was a steal until I got hit with another 86 ish pound fee when it passed through customs. Buying stuff from the UK became a lot more expensive when they left the EU.

I would absolutely love this kind of thing for file storage. Debian without a GUI, the resources it _does_ have could come to some use also.

I wonder if you can swap out those pci-e 8x slots out for one with a 16x slot.

Enterprise hardware is always cheap used. It was used up for its service life. Doesn’t mean it can’t be refreshed and put back to work but you are going to put new storage, new ram and new power supply to get another 4 years of service. So for half new price basically.. These were good machines at this point. The management hardware was spotty though If I remember correctly

that monster of a vape though

Pretty interesting vid, congrats for this find:) But please change your flickering light fixtures, they were a bit irritating

We have a ton of these in my workplace data center

The UK was awesome for servers before Brexit. I purchased an R710 with 12 cores and 48 GB of RAM for little over 200 GBP about 2 years ago. With 6 caddies and 2 1100W PSU's included.

I really wish I could get hold of a server again as I really need to start testing things again

Could do with a server like this for hosting stuff

The light flickering might have something to do with the AC frequency?

8:02 Cob's casually reminding me i still haven't repasted my x58 chipset

Wow!

Its due to you camera shutter speed, if you have the option to change shutter speed you could probably fix the issue.

I'm currently doing a current science degree at university in the UK and watching this has honestly made me quite interesting in servers (I am only in first year hence not covering them yet lol)

that vape is so vaporwave-ish, it looks nice. where did u get it?

I recently got a cisco ucs c series for free off the side of the road, 4x 2TB raid 5

one step closer to cobs net(tm)

I would absolutely snatch one of these but I have nowhere to put it

Can you give us a video about how you use your Microsoft Surface Pro in your workflow? :) I love to work with thin clients in combination of servers :)

Match the shutter speed or frames per second to the refresh rate of your lights which is usually 50 in the UK or as a multiple of and then nobody gets an epileptic fit from flashing ty. The reason it changes if you focus or raise your light level is BC your probably shooting vid on auto so it will be changing the shutter speed of your cam to balance it. Move to manual and set to 50, 100 or 150 and so on or alternatively PAL should work

Issue with the lights its the 50hz frequency ... happens with tvs trying to be filmed by a camera

I'd love to have bought a server for a quid!

Broadcom NetXtreme II series of adapters and especially BCM5709 are plagued with problems. I have SystemX 3650 M2 model - which is the older brother of the one in the video and my Linux system is experiencing intermittent NIC Copper link down messages. Turns out its a NIC driver problem. I hyad to manually load the network driver with parameters to solve the issue.

Do not change anything in the task manager(If you change Cinebench does not work well)

While i was watching this, I found a HP DL360p for 75 usd on eBay. I may get it

i got a dell poweredge c1100 for only 50$ canadian or about 32 pounds! it also came with 2x500gb WD Black drives

I wish i could find such a nice Server for cheap in Germany

Nice one. I'm also making a video on my New Server that I got.

24:35 "Begs the question why anyone would need one of these these days": Which might in turn explain why you weren't out bid on EBay.

I am able to find them to, but its the shipping that is costing me

i always find the ram name weird ELPIDO specialy in a server

Fairly good deal. These do make good file servers. The older one is better as it has the DAS connection on the back where as the new ones you buy a additional card. £1 can't really go wrong. I recently retired my MK1 of these as it was getting a bit slow and have other newer servers.

The question is... How much dedicated wam do you need to run a server?

Nice server. I'd max out memory and use it for virtual machines.

put the camera to record at 50fps if you can, or slower then 60 anyway, it will solve the flicker problem!

It's interesting that you would set the priority on Cinebench = realtime because unless you are planning on doing that with most tasks that you are going to be running, it probably won't really be necessarily representative of the rest of whatever workloads you might put on said server.

Nice i have a DL380G6 with pretty much the same setup. 30G ram. 4x 720G drives + 2x 80g SAS 10k drives. (OS/Boot)... only useing 1 cpu right now but i do have 2 of them. 6 cpre (12 threads)

Excellent, Dell Precision Tower 5810 12C E5-2687W V4 3GHz 64GB Ram Quadro M4000 Workstation. I can buy this for $200 as a gaming rig. Have not decided yet

my old 3770k was giving 800pts cb15 - my 5900x gives 3498pts