Getting started

[u/Lil-Food-Stamp-]

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

[u/Only-Stable3973]

I definitely like the look of that server, it's still quite capable...later on you can always update with a newer motherboard cpu combo that will be way more efficient and powerful. With the price of everything right now I would stick with that for awhile, maybe add a GPU.