Can finally be one of the cool kids.

Got a R740 with the following specs for $700. From there it snowballed. Specs: 2 x Intel Gold 6240 18c/36t processors 256GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHZ (Started with 128GB) Dell BOSS RAID card for booting Proxmox iDrac Enterprise license Intel Combo 2 x 1gbps R45 and 2 x 10gbps SFP+ card LSI 9300-8e in JBOD mode (Added) 2 x 2.5gbps RJ45 (Added) 6 x mixed 960GB SAS3 SSD (Added) 2 x mixed 960GB U.2 SSD (Added) 24 x Intel DC S3520 SATA6 SSD (Added) 24 x HGST 400GB SAS3 SSD (Locked to clarion hardware but working on unlocking) 1 x 2TB NVME (Added) 1 x 4TV NVME (Added) NetApp SAS2/SATA2 2.5" JBOD NetApp SAS3/SATA3 2.5" JBOD EMC SAS3/SATA3 2.5" JBOD Im running labs for my blog on here and home. I see about 200w of usage with one lab going and my base load I use for my house. I use SDN to segregate my labs and prevent labs broadcasts from going external and to prevent access to resources in my labs without a explicit NAT/firewall rule being made. If I need actual routing I spin up a OpnSense instance inside my lab. I run ZFS RAID10 on all of my SSDs. I use different groups based on needs and power off disks when not needed. Each JBOD is about 130w to run. I run the primary systems on the 8 x internal 960GB SATA3 Intel DC3520 in RAID10 and a 2TB/4TB NVME drive for test projects and the two u.2 drives as test space. I am looking at adding 1TB ish of NVDIMMS to act as super high storage that will run at DDR4 2666MHz speeds and latency. submitted by /u/HanSolo71 [link] [comments]