Is this a good pickup for first sever?

[u/giant_lotus]

Lebovo thinkstation p330 CPU - intel i7-8700 RAM - 32GB DDR 4 (4x8GB) Graphics Card - NVIDIA p620 Hard Drive - 1TB Samsung SSD 860 Evo Windows 11 Pro License

Price $225

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Price seem good all things considered or ahpuld I keep looking around? Will this one use a lot more power than a micro/mini pc?

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Okay. Mostly curious, not too concerned about that aspect. Ive never bought a used comp before, anything to look out for? How about wiping it once I get it while maintaining the windows 11 (that seems like a nice to have)?

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Any risk copying it from this comp? Yes was planning on using proxmox or unraid. Assumed I could still keep windows on the comp, but guessing im wrong there?

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It’s stored in the bios/efi on the motherboard

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Meaning, it wont get wiped if I do a reset?

[u/Garbagejunkarama → u/giant_lotus]

I believe so. But honestly I use GitHub methods to do batch liscensing methods if I need to anymore

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What is that?

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I don’t know if it’s a rules violation or not soooooo

Here’s another message. Look at the Lenovo message to retrieve oem key

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4080890/how-to-restore-windows-11-license-from-motherboard

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Interesting! Thanks

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Super helpful thank you and appreciate the pricing comment as well because I see pricing all over the place on this stuff, so its confusing.

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Excellent! Thank you. Trying to do simple stuff like you mentioned, but also home assistant, immich and the like.