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.
you lucky motherfucker
I am peanut butter JEALOUS
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.
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.
Yeap, our customer using used R740s for VMware cluster and Starwinds VSAN for high availability. The only thing I would mention is not using refurb drives.
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?
Which modern i3 supports hundreds of gigabytes of RAM and has a shit ton of cores?
Hmm, obviously not…
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.
[…] those sell for some serious dough.
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.
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 🤣
Beauties!
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
That’s gonna hurt on the electricity bill!
Nice stack bro.
U can get 1.92tb enterprise ssds are pretty affordable now on ebay
I even have 10 lying around ;)
What brand
/* and the OP was never heard of again after an invasion by a jealous mob of redittors */
:)
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.
this is the way
It’s that time again. More and more rx40 series poweredge nodes r coming off warranty. FEEEDDD my homelab
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?
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.
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.
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.
Dang, what are you storing data for? Oil? Aliens? The NSA? That is insane and yet… I WANT IT! 👀
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
FEEETSERVER PORN XD