Subj : Re: Finally on a PI
To   : claw
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Sep 29 2025 06:55 pm

 cl> I'm in Baldwin, MN 55371.  I could really use something. All my servers
 cl> are down since it was a R815 it had 64 Cores and 192 Gig ram.  I would
 cl> like to at least get my BBS and Foundry servers back up and running. 
 cl> Can't play DND until then.  If theres still head room past that my
 cl> Nextcloud server.

Mail on my BBS is best - the Dell r330 is a better machine, but it maxxed out @ 64GB RAM. It has a better Xeon CPU, but the damn r320 can take up to... oh gosh; 192GB RAM??? And I upgraded its CPU to a better one... heres some info about both:

Dell r330
64GB RAM DDR4
Intel Xeon E3-1280v5 4core/8thread
8 2.5" HDD bays

Dell r320
128GB RAM DDR3
Intel Xeon E5-2470v2 10core/20thread

.... so its kinda funny, the older 3 series is almost the better machine IMO. I paid $350 for the r330 - but that was WITH 2xSAS 6xSATA 1TB HDDs... I paid $50 for the r320, and added some 128GB RAM for I dunno - $130 or something.

But I've used the r330 for 2-3 years... the r320 has been chugging along as my Proxmox/TrueNAS SCALE NAS for around a year. I don't know market value, BUT if either of these 1U servers is up yer alley I'd give you a better than 'market' friend deal - I just dunno if shipping would cost too much to make it worthwhile; I forget what I paid in shipping for the r330 - it came from Ohio and I think I remember it being less than $100, but don't remember...

I love cloudninjas.com for decent used server hardware - anyway, if either of those I have is something you wanna think about just lemme know. The r330 is great, its just that Dell changed the RAM that year and... I can't figure out why.



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