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A friend of mine linked me to this seller earlier today. They have some pretty tempting deals, but I've never heard of them before.

Has anyone bought from them before and was it worth it?

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[-] kensand@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, they're legit. Bought a few servers from them over the years. No major issues, packing was good, reasonable ship time.

Had one case where they sent a different NIC than what was listed. They just shipped me the correct one and told me not to bother sending the old one back.

Stopped buying from them though because I prefer off-the-shelf modern consumer hardware nowadays. The real cost is always power consumption, and I prefer to shell out more money up front in exchange for huge savings on power usage down the line. I can always run over to microcenter and replace a part same-day as opposed to ordering it online and hoping it comes soon.

If you're a home-labber, I'd strongly suggest doing the same. Some of those old enterprise servers just gobble power for not that much compute relative to current day consumer machines.

If I was still buying older servers though, I'd probably be looking at their prices.

What are you considering buying?

[-] Luckyfriend222@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

This is an interesting take. I prefer the other way around, because of redundancy in things like PSU and raid etc. So your take is really interesting to me. I am rethinking my setups for sure.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I've bought from them several times and it's always been a good experience.

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