Servers? Good Deal?

[Spasx]

Hey, I was browsing craigslist and I saw this:

I am selling my HP Proliant DL360 G4p server.

It has 1 2.8GHz/800MHZ(Bus) Processor (Dual Core) 3GB of Memory and a P600 Controller + CD Rom Drive.
The server does not come with Hard drives. The server requires the 2.5in SAS drives.
Please let me know if you have any questions.

He is selling it for 80$, If it isnt a scam obviously it would need harddrives and Im not sure what the SAS drive is?

But my question is: What is this used for? and is it a good deal? the only thing I know about servers is holding media in a home and have access to it on any computer or hosting minecraft/terraria/counterstrike or any other game servers and I was wondering if I should even look into it or not cause I got some cash laying around and it would be nice to setup a minecraft server for fun and get a bit of cash from donations eventually and maybe upgrade the server.

Should I invest my time into contacting this guy for more info? or is it a complete scam and not even for game servers like I think it is.

[vesseblah]

It's from 2006 or 2007, and price is explained almost by the age already. It's about as powerful as the old Intel Core Dualcores from 2007-08, which isnt much by today's standards. SAS discs are serial SCSI, not serial ATA what modern gaming computers use, and cost about double.

Running game servers do not actually need server hardware, the most important requirement is having fast internet connection with static IP.

[Asera]

It's ok, but 1U rackmounts are kinda loud, since they have to use tiny 40mm fans most of the time.

[bigjedistud]

Yeah you don't want to get this. if this doesn't have HD's then it will cost more to get it operational then it would to just put together a small PC with server software.

[ispano]

Yeah SAS drives are labelled Enterprise. Know what that means?! Jack up the price!

[llDemonll]

... I was wondering if I should even look into it or not cause I got some cash laying around and it would be nice to setup a minecraft server for fun and get a bit of cash from donations eventually and maybe upgrade the server.

Running and server and receiving donations is far from that easy. I've seen too many CS:S servers ranked in the top 50 in the US that were above 75% full almost 24-hours a day fail because they didn't receive enough donations to keep running and the owners invested too much out of pocket.

Unless you have cheap access and knowledge of hardware and server workings, get a storage-heavy desktop if you want a media / file server at home.