Dell PowerEdge R730xd Server 24B SFF 2U, 2X Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 2.6Ghz (28-cores Total), 128GB DDR4 RAM, 4X 1.2TB 10K SAS 2.5” 12Gb/s HDD, H730P 2GB RAID, NIC 10Gb + I350 1Gb (Renewed)

This is really good for the price. It doesn't have much GPU power so you need to install additional video cards. It can hold 2. They are super easy to install. Once installed and configured it's amazing. I use it to train Large Language Models and run my Ai. Runs like a dream. It lost power briefly once and came right back up. It was really loud for about a minute while coming back up. Then it ran normally. It's really quiet. I barely hear it when working and it's 3 feet away. I would absolutely recommend this. Just remember to get the additional video cards.

Arrived quickly and in excellent condition. You would never know it was refurbished, it looks brand new. Opened it up, not a speck of dust inside, and all hardware was installed properly and functioning as expected. Noise level is actually not nearly as bad as expected. Fully ramped up, yes it's loud but at idle, it's hardly noticable. Excellent seller and quick to respond to inquiries.

I've been looking at upgrading my old vmWARE ESXi server for a couple years. I wanted the 720 (to run dual nVIDIA GPUs), but this was an awesome price with everything that it comes with! 128G RAM 4 1.2TB drives (I also grabbed a pack of 10 additional for storage) iDRAC 8 Enterprise (versus my older iDRAC6 Enterprise) PERFECTLY CLEAN INSIDE AND OUT!!!!! BATTERIES IN WORKING ORDER!!!!! BIOS UPDATED / FIRMWARE UPDATED!!! When I re-enabled the initial 4 drives included, the server booted up with 180 day evaluation of Windows Server 2019 - which I have a licensed older 2012R2 on another machine I need to update soon as well. Quiet! Fast! Worth EVERY penny! Shipping was SUPER FAST!

Seems to be a good, clean server and is operating just fine. However, there were some misses on the description: 1) iDRAC is an enterprise version, not express (a good thing) 2) Hard Drives are 6Gb/s, not 12Gb/s 3) Seller had not upgraded firmware (no biggie, just 30 minutes or so using LCC) 4) Item was late shipping 5) Shipped with Win Server 2016 installed (no problem, just noting) Overall, I expect this will work in my homelab for many years to come (replacing a Dell r510).

How did I end up here. TL:DR Very clean, arrived early, worked out the box, even has the key to lock the cover to the rack! Functions fantastic, not as loud as I thought it’d be. I have it in a server rack in the office which shares a wall with mine. I do not hear it. Mainly a media server but doubles as a NAS until I get a nice storage server. I stocked it with 16 1.2tb drives in raid 50. I did all this with online guidance cause I have no clue what I’m doing. Somehow this purchase resulted in me running my own cat6 cable and learning how to terminate it. Good news, it works great. Got new cat 6 from living room to the office. Bad news, a switch arrives in a few days. And all cause I got this for 400$. I should mention the cpus I got were slightly slower but offered many more cores so I just didn’t say anything. lol.

Not only did the server arrive 4 days early, but the BIOS was already updated to the latest version, the CPUs have good thermal paste, the empty RAM slots have fillers, iDRAC 8 is on the latest version, and the server was packaged with the proper Dell shipping foam which survived the beating FedEx gave it. On top of all that, the four disks the server shipped with are already configured to a virtual disk in RAID0. Outstanding condition and I think the best used item I've bought off Amazon on this IT journey. Thank you very much for not disappointing.

Unit came with uptodate bios and drivers, had to reconfigure the raid as the HDDS were not recognized on boot, small issue but perfect for my home lab, gave me actual experience and a good idea of what it's like to manage a server. Learned alot, great product, box was damaged it came in but thats shipping, they used enough foam to protect the product there were no issues there

BUYER BEWARE: WAS NOT AS DESCRIBED. Says had 2.5" monitor, DOES NOT. Shows has 10 drives, GOES NOT. Says has HDMI port, DOES NOT. Lied on ad. Did nothing to rectify this situation. Purchased a Dell Server for $400 in July, with additional warranty, but unit was faulty (would not identify drives, despite driver being installed and setup in Bios). IT Superstore didn’t respond after 4 days, when they have 24 hours to respond, per Amazon policy selling on Amazon). Seller slso ignored Amazon's request for resolution. After 6 more days, I requested a replacement via Amazon (not the seller), seen replacement ordered, received a label for return, and shipped via UPS. IT Superstore then canceled the order, issued a partial refund, and now the same unit costs $514.