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.

  • snatch1e@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

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

        • 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 😅😂

      • 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.