Supermicro 45 drive Bay SAS Storage Box with optional 3TB HDD

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GoranZ

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#318400 14-Jan-2025 12:51

Hi team, having spent the summer break decommisioning a lot of server and storage gear and I have a whole bunch of stuff from in the Auckland Office to recycle.
Keep an eye on the forum as I will have heaps of 1U and 2U HPE G7 and G8 plus Supermicro and Blade systems for your homelabs up this week and next.

Today I have two of these Supermicro storage units that are SAS attached and have 45 drive bays.
Each includes ~44 drive caddy's and one SSD caddy and I have the rail kits.

$500 each pickup from Albany only due to size.

Optionally I have 3TB drives to fit I can bundle @ $20 each .. the drives are 8~10 years old and have high power on time but not a lot of use, hence low price.
All were wiped and checked. Happy to consider selling drives in bunches of 5 to anyone if they are not needed in the JBOD.

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#3331416 14-Jan-2025 13:12

GoranZ:

Keep an eye on the forum as I will have heaps of 1U and 2U HPE G7 and G8

Keep in mind server Windows 2016+ and ESXi 7+ (Supported versions of Windows Server and ESXi) require at least a Gen9 server making G7/G8 kit not worth much value anymore unless someone needs them for parts

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#3331418 14-Jan-2025 13:15

Hi, re delling drives separately, how much would you want for 5? Any idea of the actual power on time, or is it just 8 years @ 24/7 ?

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#3331423 14-Jan-2025 13:25

timbosan:

Hi, re delling drives separately, how much would you want for 5? Any idea of the actual power on time, or is it just 8 years @ 24/7 ?

8 to 10 years 24x7 ... some as low as 80,000 hours and others closer to 90,000 hours ... was thinking $100 for 5

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#3331425 14-Jan-2025 13:29

nztim:

GoranZ:

Keep an eye on the forum as I will have heaps of 1U and 2U HPE G7 and G8

Keep in mind server Windows 2016+ and ESXi 7+ (Supported versions of Windows Server and ESXi) require at least a Gen9 server making G7/G8 kit not worth much value anymore unless someone needs them for parts

Yeah we run a different hypervisor thats not really effected but basically the RAM is prob the most valueable part of these as most are 384GB or more.
I am working through spec and condition etc over the next few days and will do a new thread.

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#3331456 14-Jan-2025 15:12

I will be keen when there is a supermicro machine that matches these expanders since I got some the last time they were up on offer on here.

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#3331573 14-Jan-2025 18:20

cant wait to get to a point where i can house one of these in my home :D

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#3331576 14-Jan-2025 18:35

How loud is the expander?
I've got and md1200 and even with the silence scripts it's a
bit loud.
Looks like this just connects to a standard raid card looking at the cables

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#3331580 14-Jan-2025 18:54

mentalinc: How loud is the expander?
I've got and md1200 and even with the silence scripts it's a
bit loud.
Looks like this just connects to a standard raid card looking at the cables

I would call it medium loud ?? .. its got about 8 fans inside that shift some air and you do notice it, but I was able to sit next to it for a day to format drives without any real issue. Yeah its just a JBOD, you need a RAID card or JBOD card and SW RAID. I can include some 6GB or 12GB cables.

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#3331808 15-Jan-2025 14:48

How many Reds do you have? I may be interested in taking up to 90x of them. Can you give more details on the SAS/SATA connectivity for the JBOD units? If it's compatible with the cables I already have then will take one also. Would be planning to use with a SAS2008 card in HBA mode (like LSI 9211) and external SAS cables.

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