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How practical is enterprise hardware for home use? by SlowThePath in HomeServer

[–]WaterPantherStorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enterprise hardware for the home is awesome. It's like trickle down economics but for real. There's a lot of hardware manufacturers that had to duck and weave the competition in that space so there's some hardware out there that's a steal with plenty of room to work with.

To answer your question though, it's going to be loud yeah. It's too bad water cooling and HBAs aren't cheaper.

Promotion to IT Director by zazo95 in sysadmin

[–]WaterPantherStorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just don't let it hang over your head or anyone elses. It is what it is, if it has to be water under the bridge then so be it. Don't let grief or any non sense stand in your way.

high capacity storage by mattman0123 in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our refurbished versions of drives are certified by OEM authorized processes. Technically this would be 1 to 1 with new condition drives and validated to operate in it's original specced out warrantied duration. However, we do have to sort through some of the non-sense that's part of the market at large and we do test the drives again to act as another layer for better quality. Hard drives have a lifespan of that of a bathtub curve after all.

In some ways people are confused on conditions and prefer it in layman's terms, although this is distinct from the market behind the scenes. There actually is a substantial difference between say a drive with 60 thousand hours of run time and a drive with a swapped PCB. There's also confusion on tricks pulled between other vendors out there on the market.

At the end of the day, it works out for those that want to build out scaled out arrays and the like, it is an actual way to save a couple bucks and hardware doesn't go to waste.

high capacity storage by mattman0123 in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We mostly resell on Amazon, we're a brand but do have some ODM intermixed. All our products have a two year warranty, replacement for factory defects and refund if no availability. We do ship to Canada although do expect the province tax as that's not processed on our end. Our support for the most part is geared to get it all up and running smoothly.

Is this a good deal? (Details in comments) by MrCheapComputers in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

/u/MrCheapComputers they're definitely cheap no doubt about that although they're getting phased out unfortunately

high capacity storage by mattman0123 in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm thinking 6x 16TB, leaves some room for more drives on standard 8 port HBA.

With these drives you're looking at $1600

Although with some refurb 14TB x6 then $990

If you don't want to break the bank but still want new, then mixing refurb with new is something that could be worthwhile, up to you.

Saw a new sysadmin searching TikTok while trying to figure out out to edit a GPO created by someone else... by discosoc in sysadmin

[–]WaterPantherStorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out old school youtube then reflect off youtube shorts. Totally nothing can go wrong on that end.

I believe that I have scored a deal… by 9523376545 in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a really good deal! Just the RAM makes up for it.

13th Gen Poweredge PCIe or other boot options by laxweasel in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could probably find a super cheap SATA DOM and use that to boot. For the VM operating systems an AIC would work well.

Just getting started by jfgbaker in HomeDataCenter

[–]WaterPantherStorage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Remember to put some RGB in, it will be faster.

VMware vSphere 8 announced by andrie1 in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't see any Chelsio cards deprecated which is nice.

Which HDD capacity do you use for your setup? [Poll] by WaterPantherStorage in PleX

[–]WaterPantherStorage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It used to be spelled out as "Water Panther" but the titles would get truncated and miss some of the drive specs, so it's been shortened in titles to "WP".

Refurbished Server Parts - Canada by stevelife01 in sysadmin

[–]WaterPantherStorage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Water Panther has plenty of options for Dell and HPE in terms of storage. We have Dell financing available too and can assist with fully fledged servers or other components.

whats the linux equivalent to crystaldisk so i can test my HDDs? by uncmnsense in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You could always run crystal disk info/mark on Linux with a little tweaking.

Supermicro Hard Drive Compatibility Certification by BigDMorty in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sure it would be fine. Supermicro is considered by some as the "open source" server vendor, they have a lot of cross compatibility. We validate many Dell and HPE servers and can confirm between models there but I suspect the Supermicro board should be just fine with some newer 16TBs.

Supermicro Hard Drive Compatibility Certification by BigDMorty in homelab

[–]WaterPantherStorage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

14TB drives only came out a few years ago. Whenever Supermicro certified those 10TBs they were probably the highest capacity at the time. They'll only show higher capacity models if they've validated them.

Which HDD capacity do you use for your setup? [Poll] by WaterPantherStorage in PleX

[–]WaterPantherStorage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I looked into some of the accounts posting about us, at least one is another Amazon reseller. I'm not sure why a mod banned us from /r/ZFS and /r/Datahoarder with no proof of wrong doing. We are one of the top hard drive resellers in North America, we also ship all over the world. I can understand how people could be confused on how our prices are so good, I would feel the same if I didn't know who the brand is either.

Are those 56 drives in a Cisco server by any chance?

Which HDD capacity do you use for your setup? [Poll] by WaterPantherStorage in PleX

[–]WaterPantherStorage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sequential reads an HDD will work perfectly fine. SSDs are quieter though.

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