Specing/Pricing out a home ESXi 5.5 box?

[Mr. Analog]

Nice!

[Tom]

Mel, any chance you could bring along some of those 1TB drives you said you had laying about? What kind are they? And how much do you want for em?

Nice!

I'm liking it so far other than a slight problem with it not recognizing one stick of ram.

[Mr. Analog]

Mel, any chance you could bring along some of those 1TB drives you said you had laying about? What kind are they? And how much do you want for em?

Nice!

I'm liking it so far other than a slight problem with it not recognizing one stick of ram.

Nice! Man, I've had problems like that before, that sucks :C

[Tom]

Ugh, I might now have two dead 1TB drives. wtf seagate.

append: OMG. I just realized. If I had used my old array longer, I'd have lost the entire thing at some point. I know I had been running with one failed disk for a while, but at that point I had already moved all that data to the new NAS. sheesh. I hope my warranties are still good. but I bet they aren't.

[Tom]

So it appears the 1TB seagates in my array have been "up" for 37359 hours, or about 4.2 years. Most of that was 24/7 uptime. So it's not a large surprise that they are starting to go.

I may need to steal some replacements sooner rather than later. In addition to those two very dead drives, one more is stuck on a long selftest, and another is taking seconds to respond to smartctl log requests.

This does not fill me with good feelings:

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root@bender:~/build/whdd/build# ls /dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e} | xargs -n1 smartctl -a | grep -P \(Reallocated\|Bad\|Serial\|Power_On\)
Serial Number:    6VP063MF
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   099   099   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       48
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   058   058   000    Old_age   Always       -       37359
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0000   022   022   000    Old_age   Offline      -       78
Serial Number:    6VP061R1
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       5
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   055   055   000    Old_age   Always       -       39662
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0000   001   001   000    Old_age   Offline      -       121
Serial Number:    6VP055FL
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       21
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   061   061   000    Old_age   Always       -       34645
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0000   021   021   000    Old_age   Offline      -       79
Serial Number:    5VP8RRWZ
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   074   074   000    Old_age   Always       -       23126
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   022   022   000    Old_age   Always       -       78
Serial Number:    6VP0658D
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       30
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   057   057   000    Old_age   Always       -       37730
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0


These are all from my older array. all been on for ages.

Melbosa, what brand/model are your spares? What kind of life have they seen?

[Melbosa]

Mel, any chance you could bring along some of those 1TB drives you said you had laying about? What kind are they? And how much do you want for em?

Sorry missed this post last week.

Like I said Saturday, make me an offer.  I have 1TB 7200 RPM Seagates and 1TB 5900 RPM Seagates, and a few 2TB Seagate and WDs.

[Tom]

Hmm, What condition are they in, do you know? Mine are a bit on the poor side...

I want to say $10 per? I guess it depends on how much use they've seen. I really don't want to touch any Green/LP drives, they are notorious for failing. They can't handle 24/7 uptime. Great little offline backup drives, but thats about it. WD Reds and Seagate NAS drives are fine though.

[Melbosa]

WDs are Green.

Seagates are not NAS grade just workstation Grade.

They were in my file server for a few years.  I can still get $30 or so for them so $10 might be a bit low even with the Friend discount.  Maybe $20 per.

[Tom]

WDs are Green.

Seagates are not NAS grade just workstation Grade.

They were in my file server for a few years.  I can still get $30 or so for them so $10 might be a bit low even with the Friend discount.  Maybe $20 per.

Hm, I can probably do $20. Regular drives being up for many years isn't the greatest though, as evidenced by the 20-30+ reallocated sectors on the 4 year uptime drives I have

How many do you have? And I assume they are Plain old 7200.xx Baracudas?

[Melbosa]

Yep.  I have 2x7200 and 6x5900s

[Tom]

Allright, I'll take those off your hands, and any other drives that aren't Green/LP

[Melbosa]

You want all 8?

[Tom]

Sure, might as well. I found a cheap 16 bay hotswap sas expander chassis. could whip up two arrays. one for the 7200, and one for the 5900s.