Free: HPE 3PAR Drive Sled with 4 x 2TB HGST Drives

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BlueFox

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Gone! This is another item that has been sitting in my closet doing nothing. Why do I have it when I don't own a 3PAR StoreServ 10400? Great question...

Part number is QW907A if you feel like looking it up. I think it's new? It has been collecting dust for probably 5 years now, so I don't remember with any certainty. The drives are SAS and have a 520 byte sector size, so you'll likely want to change that. See: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/how-to-reformat-hdd-ssd-to-512b-sector-size.4968/

Anyway, like the title says, free. Shipping is on you of course. It will fit in a USPS large flat rate box, so, you'd be looking at ~$20 anywhere in the US.

 
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cesmith9999

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oh the memories...

I used to manage a 3Par T400... filled with 600 * 400 GB 10K drives... when the 400 GB drives supply chain started to empty, we had to do something interesting. whenever a 400 GB drive had to get replaced. we had to replace all 4 disks in the magazine with 450 GB 15K disks... our settings allowed for the faster disks to be mingled with the slower disks. we had 1/3rd of the chassis replaced with the new disks before we retired her to a new 3Par with all SSD...

going from 3 cabinets to 4U with the same capacity and 4x the performance...

Chris
 
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BlueFox

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Had a few T400s at my old job. We had a mix of nearline, 15K SAS, and 100GB SSDs (not cheap 7 years ago) in ours. Consolidated it down to a few 7400s with SSDs. Only took up 2 racks instead of 8 with way better performance and a fraction of the power draw.