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.
Jesus christ your lucky, those sell for some serious dough. I don’t even see Rx40 on the second hand market much, mostly going from Rx10/20’s to Rx30’s now.
r740s are still fine to be used for production, even with new 15 and 16 gens available.
Right before they went EOL we ordered stacks and stacks of them. They’re perfect for our edge sites and match the rest of our deployed hardware, so it only made sense. Also have a lot still in production for clustering, tho we finally started to get some x50 and x60 equipment.
As far as I remeber, it was possible to prolongue dell support for them, so, yeah, they are still good.
We’ve still got 7 R640’s in production across two locations.
That is what I am talking about, they are still good for running them especially for SMB, if they can get refurb servers with hardware support.
Same and an R720 😅
Well, it depends from the worload, but I would really change them to new hardware already.
aren’t those worse than a modern i3?
Hmm, obviously not…
try Cisco C220M5 or C240M5
Shit I got an r940 hand me down that’s collecting dust cause of California electricity prices lol. Anyone around the bay who wants to buy it for a discount let me know 🤣
Using a position in IT for personal gain doesn’t seem ethical, so I really hope OP pays it forward when they’re done with this equipment.
I’ve been waiting for my workplace to decommission our VNX2’s. Sadly, we keep shelling out for the extended warranty, because our company is structured such that paying through the nose with operating budgets tends to be preferred over spending capital on equipment.