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.
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
/* and the OP was never heard of again after an invasion by a jealous mob of redittors */
:)
That's gonna hurt on the electricity bill!
Nice stack bro.
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.
U can get 1.92tb enterprise ssds are pretty affordable now on ebay
I even have 10 lying around ;)
this is the way
It’s that time again. More and more rx40 series poweredge nodes r coming off warranty. FEEEDDD my homelab
Beauties!
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.
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.
And the power bill and earplugs. Still… who here would say no?
This is on pair with the "i found next to the road" type of posts and the "found on the junkyard" posts.
Go work for an MSP. You'll get free shit all the time.
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.
Woah that's a beaut. Do these take regular sata drives though? I find enterprise SANs tend to be super proprietary which makes them unsuitable for home use other than just messing around.
You’re right about SANs but these are regular servers with regular HBAs or RAID cards. I’m assuming HBAs since it’s used for VMware vSAN, ie glorified software RAID.
You'll be stealing all your licenses, right?
oh dear, unfortunately it's 2.5 inches, huh? if only those were 3.5inch models, you'd be much better in luck.
Don't tell anyone, but sometimes at work I'll buy a shorter term service contract on hardware I'm planning on taking home when they roll out...
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
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.
Why not just get 2TB sata SSDs?
You got some gold right there
I have three 750s I haven’t had the time to swap out our 730s for yet. You bet those are coming home once I finally do.
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh
Good lord, those are basically new.
wait... that's a thing? Getting rid of systems because they don't have warranty anymore? You mean to tell me that not everyone has a boss that insists on trying to use a pile of Poweredge 2950's for production services because, and I quote, "what's the problem, it still works!"?
you lucky motherfucker
I am peanut butter JEALOUS
Purty nice! Gotta love working enterprise gear.
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.
Omg! What a lucky bugger!!! Awesome score there bud!
Can we not edit posts in this sub? I was gonna post internal/rear pics but I don't seem to have that option 🤔
Lucky you, I have only 7910/730....
Wow very lucky.
You lucky man you.
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.
I found, fully working and in warranty a dell r340 for £210 on eBay about a year ago.
I then sold it 6 months later, probably the only gf approved thing Iv bought for the lab… the car I bought with said money was definitely not gf approved oops
Warranty upgrades are how I got 2 r730, some R7910, and a T630
We have an entire VDI cluster at the office right not that has been turned off for the 2 years I’ve been there, and I’m just waiting for the chance to take 2 or 3 of them home.
This might be a good deal for the 2.5" drives
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276134507158?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=FzUtmyqOQLy&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=cP3sUYtfRM6&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Yyyyyyeeeeeessssss!!!!!!!
Fuck you! - Sincerely, all of us.