{"id":1835,"date":"2023-10-19T20:04:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2023-10-19T20:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:04:41","slug":"weird-obsolete-server-configurations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2023\/10\/weird-obsolete-server-configurations\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird obsolete server configurations&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of our members picked up a server for a homelab recently. It was a good deal, an R730XD populated with a decent amount of RAM, two SSDs for OS boot, and eight spinny drives for storage. I helped set it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was ready to party right out of the box, and we installed ESXi on it right away. But the server was outfitted with something I&#8217;ve never seen before.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s count the drive bays on this monstrosity. 2x 2.5&#8243; bays in the back (for the boot SSDs) &#8212; this is actually a great arrangement in my opinion, to keep them separate from the storage drives. On the front, two rows of four (or is it four columns of two?) totalling 8x 3.5&#8243; drive bays. I like 3.5&#8243; drives for storage, because you can fill it up with the 12Gbps high-capacity SAS drives, and they&#8217;re super-affordable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s weird about that? Wait for it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Above the 8x 3.5&#8243; drive bays are 18x (!?!?!?!?!?) 1.8&#8243; drive bays (?!?!?!?!?!?!).  First of all, I&#8217;ve been doing this for a minute. What the fuck are 1.8&#8243; drives? They must have gone obsolete as soon as they were released, because I&#8217;d never seen them before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-1-1024x222.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-1-1024x222.png 1024w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-1-350x76.png 350w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-1-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-1-768x166.png 768w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-1-1536x332.png 1536w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-1.png 1978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our members picked up a server for a homelab recently. It was a good deal, an R730XD populated with a decent amount of RAM, two SSDs for OS &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2023\/10\/weird-obsolete-server-configurations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weird obsolete server configurations&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[66,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-schmorporate","category-hardware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}