Insane eBay deal: HP 70 disk slot JBOD for $500

[dba]

Some of you folks have very large storage setups - 12TB, 20TB, or even more. But couldn't you go bigger? Perhaps 280TB? I challenge you!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/370752463986

The above is an eBay deal for a 5U HP MDS 600 disk chassis with ** 70 ** 3.5" SAS/SATA disk slots. It's going for $500 plus $200 shipping, which is a creazy good deal by any measure. I was tempted to buy it just for the insanity of owning such a monster, but I'm going to leave it for you storage maniacs instead.

HP specs are here: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13257_div/13257_div.html

 

[gigatexal]

yeesh! that's a huge array of disks

 

[dba]

Perhaps the exhaust from the four power supplies will double as a hair dryer?

yeesh! that's a huge array of disks

 

[Patrick]

Tempted... wonder if this comes with trays? 70x $30 each would be yikes! Also no rail kit and 160lbs without drives.

Also saw this today: Sun X4500 Thumper $500

 

[RimBlock]

Have just emailed them about buying from outside the US.

Have also asked about the trays .

Will update when I get an answer.

 

[dba]

Thumper was a lust-worthy bit of kit in its day! Nice! Today, I think it would be CPU limited and choked by the PCI-X I/O - plus the Sun trays are $30 each.

Speaking of trays, none are included in the HP for auction. They are commonly $10 each on eBay assuming that they are the usual HP array trays.

Tempted... wonder if this comes with trays? 70x $30 each would be yikes! Also no rail kit and 160lbs without drives.

Also saw this today: Sun X4500 Thumper $500

 

[Patrick]

Thumper was a lust-worthy bit of kit in its day! Nice! Today, I think it would be CPU limited and choked by the PCI-X I/O - plus the Sun trays are $30 each.

Speaking of trays, none are included in the HP for auction. They are commonly $10 each on eBay assuming that they are the usual HP array trays.

Tray costs strike again. $499 base unit + $200 shipping + $700 for trays + X for rails = 1400+ platform. Can't beat it for the capacity though.

 

[RimBlock]

Shipping does seem a bit expensive.

73Kg (160lbs) to Singapore I was quoted around US$300.

The only good thing with the tray costs is that you can spread them over time as requirements change if you need too. Get 10 trays now then top up 10 a month or whatever .

RB

 

[dba]

Reading the specifications in more detail, this version of the MDS 600 operates as 3G SAS and 1.5G SATA only. 6G drives are supported, but run in their slower modes. The current version of this system, called the D6000, supports 6G SAS with no SATA support specified.

 

[Scout255]

There seem to be a lot of conflicting info about it.
Here: HP MDS600 with Dual I/O Modules Disk System (AJ866A) specifications - HP Small & Medium Business products specifies SAS 6G, but at numerous other locations it says only 3G.

According to this: http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02571448/c02571448.pdf you would also be stuck with only single links to each drive drawer (4X3G bandwidth shared with 35 drives). Would be good if you could aggregate the links with 8X3G but it doesn't look like it allows this without a SAS switch, but if you use HP's SAS switch your limited to <2TB drives.

 

[mrkrad]

It was truly meant for either blades using a pair of switches (say 4 C7000) or Integrity can handle dual zone. Actually iirc the P800 smartarray could but the o/s just didn't handle it very well and since its so old they don't want to rehash it for 2012. The MDS600 is still used, they just attach one half to 35 drives and the other half is 2 or 4 small blade pc's running StoreVirtual VSA .

Hooking this up to two machines (or two P812's) is definitely not ideal but the price is a steal! The bad part is to keep the power redundant you have 4 1200W power cords, that's alot of juice, essentially a common man plug 15amp circuit each.

Budgetservers has some great crap on ebay , I know their actual company and they deal in more high end hp renew but he's legit.

Here's some tips from him too:
DL320 G6 -> basically 1/2 of a dl360 -> he has $385 for E5607 and 8 hot swap with RPS - throw in your 9271/M5015/M1015 and a dual port nic and some 840's and 72gb of ram and you'll be very happy.

MSA2312sa - 3GB but a real intelligent MSA2000 that can host 4 servers (3x4gbps) (older P2000 G3 SAS) - If anyone buys I have 12 HP SATA interposers which this unit uses. It turns SATA into SAS since the 3.5" model is all SAS (Dothill makes them). The 2.5" SFF model goes for a ton more but uses regular HP 2.5" drives. Microsoft uses these and newer models in clusters. Meat and Potato storage with no frills.

8gb switch FC cheap - easy to buy the keys to activate the other ports (12 more) if you can google and read quickspecs. If you want to do FC - 8gbps you'll realize how cheap this simple 8gbps switch is. Quite possible the 20 full ports are activated if it was used.

I'll have the guy come on here since he's on my AIM and perhaps he can whip up some STH specials.

Don't go buying up all those DL320 G6 That was my secret weapon cheap box. $385 with E5620, add 9 x 8gb RDIMM ($540) with 8 ssd's (256gb 840 pro) can run a TON of hosting. The E5620 is quite a remarkable quad core - 32nm with 12MEG L3 cache - HT/TURBO - I'd dare say it could take the pepsi challenge against many newer cpu's and win with hypervisors. It has 6 sata ports too if you don't like hardware raid.