Moving back to present day, many of the refurbished servers on the market now are usually base edition equivalents, stripped down to their core components and rebuilt. Many of the R710s in my price range came with integrated PERC6i RAID controllers, which will only recognize 3Gb/s SAS drives, with reported maximum capacities of 2TB each. I was really bummed out, to say the least. What was hailed on many a forum as the current top pick for homelabbing was terrible, and a bad value to boot!
The Pursuit of Homelabs, Part 3 – How I Learned To Love the R710
