the unobtainable home lab we all dream of thread (was: home lab starter kit)

[gregsachs]

Yeah, there is 100% money to be made by parting this, but I don't want to tie up $16k and the space required for 4 pallets to do it...
I guestimated ~40k in potential for the parts:
item qty profit estimate total
PE 720BB 6 300 1800
3tb drive 800 25 20000
25-2690v2 12 200 2400
ram(16gb),D7FC2 192 35 6720
ssd 48 75 3600
sas drive 48 60 2880
AP8953 PDU 8 500 4000

 

[jeffmcjunkin]

Whew, I didn't win. Any chance it was someone here? 6x Dell PowerEdge R720 [Infinidat Branded] 144x16GB RAM 2x10C-Xeon E5-2690 V2 | eBay

 

[marcoi]

i guess we should keep an ebay for the part out.

Now we need a new system to replace the sold one.
I vote for this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-C7000-P...h=item468738f004:g:MCYAAOSwEqhbvkAr:rk:1:pf:0

 

[BLinux]

i guess we should keep an ebay for the part out.

Now we need a new system to replace the sold one.
I vote for this one:
HP C7000 Plat.Encl w/16x Bl460c Gen10 2x Gold6136 3ghz 12core 128GB blades *NEW* | eBay

LOL awesome...

we should keep this going... i've now changed the thread title to: "the unobtainable home lab we all dream of thread"

 

[Dawg10]

Damn lotto ticket didn't come through AGAIN, gawddamnit.

VMWare vSAN 6.7 Cluster 3x Dell R640 6x Gold 6152 2.3TB RAM 71TB SSD 18x 3.84TB | eBay

 

[levifig]

Whew, I didn't win. Any chance it was someone here? 6x Dell PowerEdge R720 [Infinidat Branded] 144x16GB RAM 2x10C-Xeon E5-2690 V2 | eBay

$20k seems like a bargain, really! But like others have said, I don't have the capital, time, nor space for it… :X

 

[macrules34]

How about a Mac Lisa with a 5MB hard drive for $65k?

 

[BLinux]

How about a Mac Lisa with a 5MB hard drive for $65k?

that seems more of a museum piece than something for a homelab? i mean, i wouldn't even know what to run on it that would be meaningful, other than maybe playing some games from the era?

 

[macrules34]

Games, maybe write a book or something, do some spread sheets.

 

[gigatexal]

i guess we should keep an ebay for the part out.

Now we need a new system to replace the sold one.
I vote for this one:
HP C7000 Plat.Encl w/16x Bl460c Gen10 2x Gold6136 3ghz 12core 128GB blades *NEW* | eBay

Damn! I wish our on premises k8s cluster was half as beefy.