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Out of warranty at work therefore into my basement at home (alien.top)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 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 😅😂