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.

  • RedSquirrelFtw@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • sarbuk@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.