The original post: /r/homelab by /u/nastynate9889 on 2024-12-23 03:06:00.
So you may have seen my post yesterday about the T630. Great score, except I’m realizing how few options there are for decent 2.5" HDDs, and how damn expensive SSDs are. Now I’m at bit of an impass of what I fill this thing with. Use case is primarily testing and learning hyper visors, windows domain enviorments/azure local, and of course a media server stack for about 10 users, plus a handful of other self hosted apps. So it’s really pretty light all things considered. There’s a few options I’m considering.
One option would be SSDs in RAID 1 for OSs (probably 2 x 2tb), used enterprise HHDs in raid 5 for data (probably 8 x 1tb to start, worried this is gonna bottleneck me eventually though). Any leads on where y’all source drives from would be appreciated.
The other would be just sending it with consumer drives for data, or going all SSD.
Lastly, I could try to find parts to convert it to 3.5" drives. Kinda leaning this way as there are just so many more options for drives… I think the cost would be offset by the cheaper drives.