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.
I ran a stack of 630’s we decom’ed from work (5 of them) in 2020. When we moved in 2021 I didn’t want to setup the full rack in the garage again. I sold them all to a local place (server monkey) for 2k a pop.
10k.
If you get bored with them, look into resale options. Give yourself a little bonus. These gen are harder to find right now. You’re in a unique position to buff up your savings if you feel so inclined.
Good score!
Fuck you! - Sincerely, all of us.
Hohooo. I hope that after I graduate I’m going to have the same opportunities as some of you to take old equipment home.
work in IT long enough and I can guarantee you will. I’ve gotten tens of thousands of $ worth of free shit over the years.
Sounds like great motivation to pass the upcoming exams lol
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!
Apart from gaining relevant experience using these “beefy” boys I can’t fathom why pple go for them.
A modern tiny/mini/micro PC, as Patrick Kennedy from ServeTheHome calls them, from the likes of Dell, Lenovo, Minisforums, ASRock, Beelink etc should outperform blades not only on compute but tasks that are now being offloaded such as encryption, media codecs etc
You could break even in 1-2 years on elecricity costs alone(depending where you are)!
For someone who lives in a not-as-wealthy country, it just blows my mind how people get these amazing equipment, for free?
I’ve been trying build something for my home for years and anything that can be called decent is basically immediately out of my budget.
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.
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 🤣
r740s are still fine to be used for production, even with new 15 and 16 gens available.
We’ve still got 7 R640’s in production across two locations.
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.
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.
Same and an R720 😅
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 😅😂
Well, it depends from the worload, but I would really change them to new hardware already.
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.
As far as I remeber, it was possible to prolongue dell support for them, so, yeah, they are still good.
aren’t those worse than a modern i3?
Hmm, obviously not…
Which modern i3 supports hundreds of gigabytes of RAM and has a shit ton of cores?
try Cisco C220M5 or C240M5
[…] 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.
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!