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.
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.