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.

  • ThatDopamineOPBEnglish
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    10 months 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

  • StetsedBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • XOIIOBEnglish
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    10 months 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.

    • CoderStoneBEnglish
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      10 months 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.

  • skynet_watches_me_pBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I too brought home some of those generation Dells… 340, 440, 6515, and 7517… All LFF.

    I want to replace my $50 auction find C240-M3 chassis, but dont want to give up 24 bays of SFF

  • ThatDopamineOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Can we not edit posts in this sub? I was gonna post internal/rear pics but I don’t seem to have that option 🤔

  • AdderallBuyersClub2BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Recently picked up from ebay a ln HP StoreVirtual 3200 with 10gb controllers for the low low price of $300. Controllers alone are worth way more than that.

  • ThatDopamineOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    OK FOR EVERYONE SAYING I AM GOING TO NEED A PERSONAL NUCLEAR REACTOR TO RUN THESE:

    I just looked at a similar host (same hardware but way more disks) at work that is running about 60% CPU load and a ton of disk IO

    Data: Average usage: 310 Watts Max Peak: 402 Watts Min Peak: 192 Watts

    I think people mistakenly assume that these enterprise servers draw like thousands of watts or something. Yes they are certainly more than an efficient small home server but they aren’t some three-phase commercial electric clothes dryer.

  • CoderStoneBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    oh dear, unfortunately it’s 2.5 inches, huh? if only those were 3.5inch models, you’d be much better in luck.

  • BloodyIronBEnglish
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    10 months 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