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.
r740s are still fine to be used for production, even with new 15 and 16 gens available.
aren't those worse than a modern i3?
Hmm, obviously not...
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 😅
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.