Is this a good deal?

I'm in the market for a new server, not for production but home use.

Is this a good server?

The price is $230, that seems reasonable right.

Dell PowerEdge 2950 III Server 32GB 2x Xeon L5420 6 x 500GB SATA PERC 6i RAID

I already own two Dell PowerEdge 2650's but they are old and need new drives, so those are going to the recycle place.

Looks like a great deal to me.  The hdd's alone cost that much.
I would without doubt pull the trigger on that.  Good find Newt. 

Hey, check your pm also.

 As far as deal goes, it looks nice.

Tho, I wonder what kind of workloads its supposed to do, that pairing of 2 super weak and old CPU with 32 GB of ram :/

No it's not a good deal.  You can get a better price on ebay for that 8 year old server any day of the week.

 I realized that after looking at ebay, I had found that on govdeals.com.

I ended up with this one...

Dell Poweredge R900

4x Xeon E7450 2.4ghz = 24 Cores

64GB RAM

2x 146gb Perc 6i DRAC

Dell Poweredge R900

This is a VERY Clean Machine
30 Day Warranty

No OS Installed
No Media Included

Specifications
4x Intel Xeon Hex Core 2.4ghz 12mb 1066fsb CPUs (Intel E7450 – 24 Cores Total)
32x 2gb DDR2 ECC Memory (64gb Total)
2x 146gb 10k 2.5″ SAS Drives
DVD Drive
Perc 6i SAS Raid Controller w/ Battery
DRAC 5 Remote Access Card
4x Gigabit Ethernet
2x Power Supplies

WOW what a beast this is!!

That machine probably sold for around $15,000 six years ago

 Actually $18,500 according to the paperwork.

It's crazy, the damn CPU's were listed at $2.7k each.

How much did you pay?

 $472.00US with shipping.

 WT... from where? they have another one? I can pay 500 for this one  lol

Did this one come from govdeals.com?

I just bought this one last week:

dell poweredge c6105

24 2.5 hard drive bays max 48TB (6 drives per node)

4 nodes

8 opteron 4332HE 6 core 3GHZ  (48 cores)  2 cpu's per node

holds 192 gigs of ram per node

for $650 plus 45 for shipping.

I am using 1 node for plex media server for around the house and on the road.

1 node for ftp/cpanel backups for clients

1 node for virtual machines

last node maybe a Mac not sure yet... 

 They have plenty..

 No.

eBay actually, and the company is Garland Computers in Garland TX.

Anyone close to them can save the $100 in shipping.

 Thanks, I'll check them out.

 Jay, what kind of battery backup are you implementing in your system?

nothing for the main machine but the raid cards have small batteries on them so it will hold the data until the next power up then write the data to disk. 

 I was doing that but just the slightest power brownout knocks it off and it kept screwing my databases up. Had to get a better system than I had.

Well my friend works at APC i can ask him if there are any "extra" backup units around if you like.

 Thanks, I already bought one.

 Hey. I'll take one of those  "extras" .  I need a UPS on my coffee pot.

How many watts ?