These were originally built as a VSAN which I plan on replicating once I build a proper home vSphere environment. Each of the 740s have about 12TB raw in them but I’d like to load the 8 empty bays in each, anyone know where I can get a stack of cheap/used 1.8TB 2.5" SAS drives? I care more about capacity compared to speed as I plan on making the 440 a standalone all flash host.

  • ThatDopamine@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Specs:

    740s - Dual Xeon 6130s, 12x32GB per , 6x 1.8TB SAS spinning, 2x SAS SSDs (VSAN cache tier), A hilarious amount of 1GB NICs, A sane amount of 10GB NICs

    The 440 is a lot weaker, it only functioned as a host for a virtual data domain and the virtual VSAN witness appliance which isn’t a requirement anymore

  • marc45ca@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    /* and the OP was never heard of again after an invasion by a jealous mob of redittors */

    :)

  • matthoback@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There’s tons of cheap used or new-old-stock 1.2TB 2.5" SAS drives on eBay. The 1.8TB drives are significantly more expensive though.

  • RFilms@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s that time again. More and more rx40 series poweredge nodes r coming off warranty. FEEEDDD my homelab

  • XOIIO@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sigh, man everyone has so much damn luck. Thousands of bucks worth of stuff for free because it’s out of warranty? I mean Jesus. Couldn’t even afford one of those on eBay.

    • linoleumknife@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hell my team is forced to still be using some servers that have been out of warranty for 2 years now because it takes SO LONG to get corporate to go through the purchasing process and then get someone to actually set up new servers in the data center. OP got servers for free that are nicer than half the servers my team is using in production.

    • daninet@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is on pair with the “i found next to the road” type of posts and the “found on the junkyard” posts.

    • CoderStone@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Be thankful that you don’t have those, because those thousands of bucks worth of stuff incurr another thousand bucks of costs to setup for proper use. Most end up selling, OP is a badass for using it.

  • MacGyver4711@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Crossing fingers I can hold of some 14Gen Dell’s from work myself (640 and 740XD) next year when they will be replaced. Not sure of the noise levels, though. Hard to figure out in our server room with several other racks and coolers… Had quite a few 13Gen 630/730s in my homelab, and my current 730XD does not make more noise than my desktop machine.

  • affilag1@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Are you telling me your work doesn’t use aftermarket support like Parkplace or Service Express on hardware like this after Dells warranty? They offer aftermarket support comparable to Dell Warranty. I mean sheesh, gratz and what a great set of hardware but I’m surprised and obviously slightly jealous. lol

  • BloodyIron@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you care about capacity over performance then IMO you should explore consumer SATA SSDs. At the capacity per device you’re seeking you’re going to be spending more going with SAS for that level of capacity.

    I just looked at one of my lower priced sources of second hand SAS SSDs and it’s over $200/ea (USD) for 1.6TB and in contrast the NEW 2TB SATA 2.5" SSDs from well known brands are about $120/ea (USD).

    Also, unless you plan on using interfaces at or greater than 100gbps (as in NICs/equivalent) then you really will see zero value in going with SAS SSDs at all (unless PLP is a hard requirement for you, of course).

    Slap TrueNAS on that and go fasssssssssst IMO ;)

    Also, why no back pics and internals, etc??? CMONNN POST FEEET SERVER PORN XD