Proliant GL360 G5 worth the price?
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If you get one and it's horrifically loud, just take the fans out and replace them - hard to find good quiet 40mm for that 2U though.
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@MattSpeller said:
$200-300?
I kinda hate you southerners just a little bit right now
You mean those northerners?
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i've got two HP DL360s i'll sell to someone if they want them. 16gb ram each. i've got 6 or7 of the 15.1k drives as well.
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@hubtechagain I'll give you $5cdn, a hand shake & the rest of my timmies card ($9? ish)
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@MattSpeller come on and pick them up. with a few billz ha
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@hubtechagain lol - you're cleaning me out bud! $6.50 is my final offer
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If only he was offering REAL money.
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@MattSpeller said:
@hubtechagain lol - you're cleaning me out bud! $6.50 is my final offer
What is that like $4USD?
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@coliver I wish
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@hubtechagain lol - you're cleaning me out bud! $6.50 is my final offer
What is that like $4USD?
Nah, it's about tree fiddy!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Look for the DL380 rather than the DL360, much better drive options. Price is typically almost the same. We have a DL385 G5. Still a good unit.
I have 2 DL380 G5's still in production (8 years old). I want to migrate off of them and use them as a backup applicance - but damn the drives are not cheap.
RAID 6 - eight 1 TB drives would cost me around $2K, and give me 6 TB of storage.Makes me seriously consider other choices which cheaper drive options, but then with a chassis for them, still looking around the same cost and no compute power (thinking NAS).
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@Dashrender said:
RAID 6 - eight 1 TB drives would cost me around $2K, and give me 6 TB of storage.
That's a lot considering for backup you can get a 6TB RAID 1 array for a fraction of that cost.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
RAID 6 - eight 1 TB drives would cost me around $2K, and give me 6 TB of storage.
That's a lot considering for backup you can get a 6TB RAID 1 array for a fraction of that cost.
That's my point! Of course for the DL380 G5, you can't get 6 TB drives. My machine only takes 2.5" drives, huge limitations
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I found a 2TB 2.5 7200 SAS Drive for $399.99 ..
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We only use servers that take 2.5" drives anymore. More density. The backup servers we have Sata drives instead of SAS though, since it's not live data, there's only about 30 VMs bening backuped up to each backup server. Actual servers have no local storage.
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@Dashrender said:
That's my point! Of course for the DL380 G5, you can't get 6 TB drives. My machine only takes 2.5" drives, huge limitations
With 6TB drives you just need two and a $299 Synology and you have that much
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Plus with a new NAS you get a warranty again, even if not of the same caliber. But if parts fail, they get replaced.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Plus with a new NAS you get a warranty again, even if not of the same caliber. But if parts fail, they get replaced.
LOL at that price I'm not sure I care about the warranty.
The problem with this solution is no compute power. AND I need to make sure I don't have throughput issues.
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@Dashrender said:
The problem with this solution is no compute power.
Why is that an issue? Once you have more power than you can leverage, why get more? More just costs more at the plug. Lower compute power more appropriate for your needs is actually a bonus.
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@Dashrender said:
LOL at that price I'm not sure I care about the warranty.
It's still valuable. Everything is covered for years at under half the total price!
