DL380 G9 Server / 2X E5-2670 V3 2.3GHz = 24 Cores / 128GB RAM / P840 / 12x 3TB SAS (Renewed)

Server came well packaged with dense foam and had two included power cables for the redundant PSU's. I admittedly was very nervous about having a server shipped with the drives installed as they would be subject to every impact the server received but so far no drive failures. There were not (12) 3TB Drives in the server as stated but instead there were (9) 4TB drives so it equals out in terms of storage space. From what I can tell most of the drives have about 1 year of usage on them according to SMART. Since only 9 of the 12 bays have drives in them the 3 empty caddys are actually blanks so you'll need to buy the appropriate caddys if you wish to expand into the last 3 bays. The server did come with a BCDVideo 15gb USB Flash drive connected to the motherboard which leads me to believe these are refurbed BCDVideo servers which is perfectly okay with me. For the price, this is an insane deal for your homelab and is a great starter but beware of possibly expensive and complicated hardware if anything fails on these aging beauties. If you pick this up, I recommend taking some time to go through all of the bios functions, the iLo and HP Smart provisioning to learn the capabilities of the server. You can also find iLo 4 advanced keys online for free to unlock all of the iLo functions. 10/10 would buy again.

Server functions though the "Smart memory" feature wont work as there has been a non-certified HP Memory DIMM installed in it there for iLo reports this on post. Seller says to live with it. - 5/11/2026 - Vendor supplied the HP certified memory to us and every thing is excellent now so I revised my review from 2 start to 5 star because good customer service is hard to come by these days.

Problems - P840 card had two loose SAS connections, so that only 4 of 12 drives were connected. Fixed by re-connecting SAS at card. - Processor package heatsink was not fully tightened? So thermal paste was thick and not spread out, at the lowest power setting (1.2 GHz) temperatures were high (70 C). Bonus - 3 TiB drives were actually 4 TiB drives! Perfectly clean server inside. Cosmetic scratches, no bent or broken parts. Very happy with this deal.

The day I received it I tried to connect it and it did not work at all. I returned it the same day via UPS. Per the tracking number Amazon received it the very next morning now 2 weeks later I still do not have the refund so that I can purchase a new one. Telling me to wait 30 days for something that has been returned the very next day is an interruption and huge inconvenience to my business. Their slowness is causing me to lose money in my business that I just started and is very much need for the Grand Opening.

Awesome product

This was quite the learning experience. First, you get what you pay for and this is pretty inexpensive all things considered. Out of the box, one of the mounting tabs was bent. This is the first time I've needed to use vice-grips to install a server but it straightened out okay. I plugged it in and connected the ILO and everything looked good and functional. Then I started looking at the disks installed. All except for one are 4Tb drives, the one is a 500Gb drive. It's a complete hodgepodge of 7.2K and 5.9K drives. That's fine for my application. Replacing Windows with Ubuntu was very painful. I finally got it to work with a UEFI bootable FAT filesystem thumbdrive containing Ubuntu 24.04 server bits. This took me two days to figure out since all of my other servers have been very forgiving. It's alive now and I expect it to serve me well (so to speak). Update--- Turns out they are all 7.2K 3Tb drives, the labels on the front are what's random. Okay. Net available storage is approximately 16Tb (12x3Tb / 2 for RAID 1 striping).

Came as described. Using a Windows 2022 NVR. No iLO upgrade license. Did arrive with a PCI riser. All drives were functioning! Update: one drive failed after 3 weeks. To be expected after shipping a server of this age. I added two consumer grade SSD's in RAID 0. Server 2022 installs just fine but you need to specify the RAID driver during install. Windows update was able to find the remaining drivers. Running iSpy with 24 cameras no problem. Room to grow.

Had a minor problem getting this system set up and made the dreaded call to customer service at 6:30PM. Left a message and expected to hear from them next day, or never... To my surprise they called me in about an hour with a very helpful technician that resolved my technical issue very quickly and even provided software assistance which was entirely outside his scope of required service. Highly recommend!