My experience was buttery smooth. It was plug it in, replace the drives with new SATA spinning for bulk and SSD for fast storage, install proxmox, and I had my first apps on it within a few hours of starting. This was first on a Dell RX720 and later on an HP DL380 Gen9.
I got complete servers from decommissioning projects and they just worked. In 5 years, I’ve replaced a SAS controller battery backup unit on one of them.
The plural of anecdote isn’t data and all that, but if you buy complete gear that just aged out, it worked on the last day they used it and is very likely to work on the first day you use it.
The fan noise and power draw is annoying. Running a house full of VMs (I’ve got about 20 containers plus VMs), it pulls about 290 Watts per the meter. That doesn’t feel outrageous on the power side and is certainly convenient. (It’s about $500/yr in power.)
I got complete servers from decommissioning projects and they just worked. In 5 years, I’ve replaced a SAS controller battery backup unit on one of them.
The plural of anecdote isn’t data and all that, but if you buy complete gear that just aged out, it worked on the last day they used it and is very likely to work on the first day you use it.
The fan noise and power draw is annoying. Running a house full of VMs (I’ve got about 20 containers plus VMs), it pulls about 290 Watts per the meter. That doesn’t feel outrageous on the power side and is certainly convenient. (It’s about $500/yr in power.)