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Out of warranty at work therefore into my basement at home(alien.top)

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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.

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I think it’s mostly that even “smallish” power draws like 300W adds up in cost quicker than you think if it’s on 24/7. I don’t know where you live or what you pay for power, but I live in one of the cheapest places for power in the US and pay ~$0.12/kWh, and that still equates to ~$1000/year/kW for 24/7 operation. I know when I finally did the math it surprised me.

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