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.

  • Stetsed@alien.topBEnglish
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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.

    • ianthenerd@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      […] 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.

    • zomgryanhoude@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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 🤣

    • snatch1e@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      r740s are still fine to be used for production, even with new 15 and 16 gens available.

      • MrDrMrs@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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.

        • snatch1e@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          As far as I remeber, it was possible to prolongue dell support for them, so, yeah, they are still good.

        • snatch1e@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          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.

          • PoSaP@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 months ago

            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.

          • snatch1e@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 months ago

            Well, it depends from the worload, but I would really change them to new hardware already.

          • H0lzh4cker@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 months ago

            I’ve got 2x R720xd’s since they got sorted out at work. Bougjt a “new” power brick for one of those (other 3 were fine) since a capacitor exploaded when i turned it wrong… And that was it. Apperently it just sat in a corner for a year to be soon sorted out and the capacitors were dry…

            Anyways, im using those in my homelab so ce then, 24/7 for about half a year now. Power usage is only 210w in idle, unless I have much traffic gling on there… Then it is at about 300w each…

            Perfect for my needs. Runs my Proxmox, HomeAssistant, few VMs, filehosting for my Videos, DHCP-Router, Firewall, IPS/IDS Systems (im just getting into this, so i set them up for fun internally) and so on.

            Two are allmost too much tbh 😅😂