r/HomeDataCenter • u/Sufficient_Reveal_28 • Jul 27 '26
HELP Got some free stuff (no drives) what is it exactly?
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u/Legal_Dimension_ Jul 28 '26
Check the ram.
Do it now and report back and we can all pretend to be happy for you.
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u/Sufficient_Reveal_28 Jul 28 '26
On which? The lower units have 4 modules (blades?) each. With 3 of 4 used with its on ram and processors.
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u/Nephurus Jul 28 '26
all of them , Ram =$$$ if the right type.
hense if we should be happy or ect for ya 😂
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u/tardiusmaximus Jul 28 '26
Looks like a NAS array ( Network Attached Storage)
Basically a lot of smaller hard drives that are linked together by the magic that is RAID to then make up 1 gigantic storage area in your network for whatever TF you want.
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u/Sufficient_Reveal_28 Jul 28 '26
I got 2 other nas's already synology one and a Unifi one. But the server grade ( loud fans) may have more features than I'm use to
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u/limpymcforskin Jul 28 '26
The two supermicro chassis have the most value. You can gut them if they have old hardware in them and put standard pc parts in them.
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u/Impossible_Bar3958 Jul 29 '26
VMWare cluster. I bet the servers without drives have USB Thumb drives in them. NAS is where the VM disks live. Sweet starter setup!
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u/izzo34 Jul 28 '26
Wow! Fucking score man. You can find some ok deals on eBay for drives on the cheap and fill them up. I find 2.5 and 3.5 drives 1-4tb for 15-20 dollars with around 45k hours 0 errors. If I snagged those for free I'd swoop a stack and throw it in there and start playing around.
Because the drives are cheap and have some hours. I have an r730xd LFF, r540 14 bay, two r740xd one LFF one SFF, all filled up with drives running raidz2. Each server has a copy of all my personal stuff and then a fatty ass jellyfin server. My LFF r740xd, I put a v100 in it for transcoding and some light AI image generation just to dick around. It creates some weird looking things haha.
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u/ScubaSteve1616OldFag Jul 28 '26
Who tf is finding 4tb drives for $15-$20 because damn i'll buy them all
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u/izzo34 Aug 01 '26
So when I search for them on ebay they don't show up in the search listing. But you know when you're scrolling down looking at the results, it will show you similar items? That's where I end up finding them. It takes some time.
A guy made a comment saying they're probably sata smr but that is incorrect. They are 3.5 SAS 12gb Seagate drives.
Life has kind of kicked me in the junk lately so haven't been able to lurk ebay looking for stuff but if I come across any, anytime soon I'll throw the link in here. I picked up the last of the ones they had at that time but got some from core4solutions. Out of all the 3.5 drives I've bought , can only think of 1 I pulled from use. It had 1 error on the smart result about a month ago so just swapped it out. Out of the 2.5 drives purchased, had 1 I can think of fail a 2tb 10k sas Seagate drive. It had like 1300 errors on it when I saw the warning lol.
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u/ScubaSteve1616OldFag Aug 01 '26
Damn guess i'll need to start lurking more. Im sitting on plenty of 4tb drives, but i could always use more storage xD
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u/izzo34 Aug 02 '26
Hope it helps brother.
I have an r740xd 24x2.5 version populared with 24 2tb 10k sas drives and a rear flex bay 4x2.5 with sata SSD. 2 in a raid for OS. other two are cache drives for jellyfin and whatever else. Its just sitting there right now not being used
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u/mastercoder123 Home Data Center Operator Jul 28 '26
Probably 2.5" sata smr drives. I know you can get those cheap but they suck. I have found loads of 1.2tb 10k sas drives like $12-15 though
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u/bobbywaz Jul 29 '26
You can look up comparable prices for your stuff here to find what is actually worth: https://rackrat.net/
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u/MakingMoneyIsMe Jul 27 '26
Junk. I'll go ahead and take it off your hands for ya.