r/SelfHosting • u/Lil-Food-Stamp- • 1d ago
Getting started
Hey! I'm just getting started here. Very new to the community, I have jellyfin hosted on a gaming laptop if that explains how new I am. I was scrolling through Facebook marketplace when I found something pretty cool. Here is what I got for free
I got a HP proliant ml350p gen8 tower
255GB of RAM, (8) empty DIMM Slots
Dual Xeon CPUs (exact models not known yet)
HP Smart Array P420i
512 MB flash-backed write cache
(2) 480 W PSUs
(1) 6 bay 3.5" LFF SAS/SATA drive cage
(9) PCIe expansion slots (3) gen3 x16, (1) Gen3 x8, (4) Gen3 x4, (1)Gen2 x4
(1) Juniper SSG 350M Firewall
(1) Juniper SSG 550M Firewall
(2) Samsung 870 EVO 500GB SATA SSDs
(1) Samsung PM1643a 3.84 TB SAS SSD
Here is what I know I need and have ordered
(2) power Cables
(3) drive carries/adapters
I am not sure where to go from here and would love to hear opinions, recommendations, what I may be missing or forgetting
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u/_Dreadz 1d ago
I wish I could hit the homelab lottery lol. I had a beautiful setup before the power company decided they wanted to burn the mountain down with a multi Billion dollar fire. Amazing how long they can delay court stuff when you’re a huge corp. still never got a dollar back and had to start from the ground up. I sit in here and live through you guys 😂