I hope this is the right sub-forum area for this question.
I'm currently trying to purchase/build a XEON Westmere based Workstation (Dell Precision T7500) and Server (Dell Poweredge C6100). In both cases, I'm looking at eBay for used/refurbished versions of these products. While I'm ok with picking up the Chassis, Motherboard, CPU, PSU, Addon cards etc through eBay, the one area I'm a bit wary about is RAM. I've always bought memory through retail channels and ran the modules through a stress test like MemTest which has occasionally uncovered issues. In these cases, it was an easy process to get a replacement for suspect sticks.
When buying through eBay do we still have the same replacement option or is this on a vendor by vendor basis?
How do you guys go about choosing which vendor to purchase RAM from, especially when buying larger volumes? I'm going to need 2 x 96GB of DDR3 ECC RAM which is around $2000 retail so I'd love to find a much better deal on eBay as long as there were some guarantees that I could replace sticks that failed a test like MemTest.
Any advice is appreciated.
I'm currently trying to purchase/build a XEON Westmere based Workstation (Dell Precision T7500) and Server (Dell Poweredge C6100). In both cases, I'm looking at eBay for used/refurbished versions of these products. While I'm ok with picking up the Chassis, Motherboard, CPU, PSU, Addon cards etc through eBay, the one area I'm a bit wary about is RAM. I've always bought memory through retail channels and ran the modules through a stress test like MemTest which has occasionally uncovered issues. In these cases, it was an easy process to get a replacement for suspect sticks.
When buying through eBay do we still have the same replacement option or is this on a vendor by vendor basis?
How do you guys go about choosing which vendor to purchase RAM from, especially when buying larger volumes? I'm going to need 2 x 96GB of DDR3 ECC RAM which is around $2000 retail so I'd love to find a much better deal on eBay as long as there were some guarantees that I could replace sticks that failed a test like MemTest.
Any advice is appreciated.