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.

  • daninet@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    ELI5 coz I’m not in IT. Why would anyone throw out of warranty items and not use them if they are well specd? If it breaks it does not matter that it is down with warranty or down without warranty.

  • MacGyver4711@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months 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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    11 months 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

  • AdderallBuyersClub2@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 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.

  • bagofwisdom@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Man, I miss my days of being a sysadmin and in charge of decom at a company that treated homelab as a perk. Once the NBV was $0 if it didn’t go home with me it was going in the recycling truck. The only things we tended to sell were the big decom projects with blade centers… which I don’t want. We once had a decommissioned silicon emulator sitting out front of the building overnight because my purchasing rep forgot my building in another state didn’t have a loading dock. Freight company had to come back with a lift gate.

  • powerbird101@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Dang, what are you storing data for? Oil? Aliens? The NSA? That is insane and yet… I WANT IT! 👀

  • ThatDopamine@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    11 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 🤔

  • BloodyIron@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 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

  • vagrantprodigy07@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I wish my company let us take anything home. Instead everything gets sent to a recycler, with no option for us to even buy it.