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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s that time again. More and more rx40 series poweredge nodes r coming off warranty. FEEEDDD my homelab
Beauties!
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!"?
Good lord, those are basically new.
Lucky you, I have only 7910/730....
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.
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.
try Cisco C220M5 or C240M5
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!
U can get 1.92tb enterprise ssds are pretty affordable now on ebay
I even have 10 lying around ;)
What brand
Nice stack bro.
this is the way
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.
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.
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh
oh dear, unfortunately it's 2.5 inches, huh? if only those were 3.5inch models, you'd be much better in luck.
You'll be stealing all your licenses, right?
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.
Why not just get 2TB sata SSDs?
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...
You got some gold right there
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
you lucky motherfucker
I am peanut butter JEALOUS
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.
Purty nice! Gotta love working enterprise gear.
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 🤔
Are you telling me your work doesn't use aftermarket support like Parkplace or Service Express on hardware like this after Dells warranty? They offer aftermarket support comparable to Dell Warranty. I mean sheesh, gratz and what a great set of hardware but I'm surprised and obviously slightly jealous. lol
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 ~~FEEET~~ SERVER PORN XD
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.
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.
Warranty upgrades are how I got 2 r730, some R7910, and a T630
Wow very lucky.