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.
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.
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.