Man....quiet those fans down. Install the ipmi and set them to like 20-25%...you won't even hear it. I have one in a rack in my living room. You'd never know it was there (except for the 7 foot rack in the corner). Google the ilmi commands...its really simple and quiets them wayyyyy down.
Just bought mine never had any enterprise grade equipment in the house. Wife might not be the happiest, but I'm geeking since I've been away from my job for sometime as a ws/vmware/rh server admin
hey boss my old work gave me a free r640 and I got about 128 gb of memory and like a terabyte of storage and missing one fan, lmfao. at least I got both batteries and besides just loading random ass VM's on it using eSXI 7.0 i have nothing else to do with it
@@mosasa1307 that’s a hell of a machine - must have a pretty cool boss lol! I don’t know what I’d do with a machine like that honestly. My r730 is barely breaking sweat most days
@@skyluetz I do actually. I threw a 4090 in the server. The performance was underwhelming due to lowish single core performance. I wouldn’t personally recommend it.
Hahaha... this is overkill for what you wanted! Like buying an 18 wheeler to go get your mail. However, if you learn how to work with a server like this and gain a ton of knowledge from it then its not a waste of money. It's a good investment for knowledge.
I manage dell servers, the idrac is pretty good. I wish the host level cli was better. But with idrac8 web gui - if you go into configuration settings - you can change the default VNC from java to html5 if you dont want to leave the browser.
having it in the closet is not a big issue. I would get a 2x4 so that you are not resting that server on the rack ears, it can dork them up. or get a vertical mount 2u/4u rack and hang it on the wall.
I agree, I can too! I have 2 Dell R720's to play with I got cheap from Ebay. I have built regular PC's, but have never played with enterprise gear. It's fun and with VM's, you can do a lot without having several PC's around. Yes, looks matter to me as well. I like the looks of the Dell servers. Nice video.
Hey man I appreciate the dry sarcastic humor, shit was funny, im the same way. "If you have problems like i do and have money " lmao yup I absolutely don't need this server and im buying it anyway haha
i just recently bought one of these systems. my nas just isn't up to the job of streaming my media. i set everything up perfectly and no streams came through. i think i needed a gpu for transcoding but its just a 4 bay asustor nas and i don't know how to do all that. My poweredge i put a gpu right in it and bam, transcoding done. it may be overkill for a homelab but who cares right...😂
i think all usb are 3.0 there are not color coded like on an consumer pc. the internal one is meant for your os or recovery drive. also i have one question why only dual channel? came it like that?
r630 and r730 are pretty efficient but still too much power for most home server applications. i have a r630 at it highest configuration except for ram 1.6TB is enough 64gb modules are relative cheap but 128gb modules cost nearly 5 times more. i set mine in power efficient mod so it draws on idle only 60W but on performance mod 200W is idle power but the compute power stays the same the oly thing is the response time the r630 needs 2 second from 0% to 100% on performance mode he would do this in 0.5sek. so as for my private use case i can live with the 2sek. i run many services for me on this but also i host 5 game servers for me and my friends and there friends. one of my services is a ai image creator that will need 50% of the whole compute power and also i have 3 nvidia quadro t1000 in the back pcie slots also being used only for ai and video transcoding. mine uses up to 700W at peak but under normal load over the day it uses only 70W at peak. the r630 is really limited in internal space but it is more or less the same as the r730 but in a smaller case and it uses 2.5 drives instead of the cheaper 3.5 drives. so yea it is a nice machine also cheap used to buy you can get one 300€ to 600€ for the basic or more common configuration 800€ to 1300€ you can get the rarer top models like e5 2699v3 or V4 cpu or with a h730 mini raid controller or the 4 port sfp+ 10gb nic and such rare options. one quick note you can set over the idrac the fan min speed to 5% instead of the 30% is standard. 5% is enough airflow for idle also the system much quieter even the r630 was laud as a prebuild pc on idle. 100% is a whole other level of noise ^^' this scared me it the first start up ^^
What is your opinion about servers like this? Me was "injected" that I shouldn't buy so servers because they need so much power and are big and they power/price isn't good? But no other mainboard has so many PCIe slots. And I want so many PCIe ports😊
There are so many things inaccurate with this video. Not to mention complaining about running a wire but then you run a network cable AROUND A CORNER from adapter. Also, Powerline is not better than most wifi. Maybe if you're using 2.4ghz, but if that's the case, you'd get better speeds by upgrading your router or wireless access points. Just run ethernet. If you can't, ask your nerd friend that can.
You’re hilarious dude! If you had actually watched the WHOLE video, you would know that I made it fairly clear that powerline only really beats WiFi if low and consistent latency is a priority. I will admit I had a tongue slip in the beginning where I said it was faster - I meant better latency so that is a definite mistake on my part. I don’t make these videos to be academic level scholarly -I do my best not to misinform people, so if you have any meaningful contributions as far as anything that was factually incorrect we would all love to know - and I will make corrections accordingly. With that said, you missed the entire point of the video and where I installed the adapters in the video in that they were placed where they were for demonstration - final install was nowhere near close to what is shown in the video. Folks such as yourself give everyone who knows about tech and tries to help those around them a bad reputation to those who don’t know as much and those that would like to learn. If everyone wanted to, or could do exactly as you and “just run Ethernet” there would be no market for adapters and WiFi. At the end of the day you can’t please everyone. Your upload button is the same as mine :).
Having a bad day huh? This really wasn't a bad video for post #2. I didn't know about MoCA and am now thinking about looking into it. As far as 'run ethernet 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻', this wasn't a video about how to fish and pull cable through the wall of your apartment voiding your lease. It was about how to avoid doing that if it wasn't possible but Coffey was way too polite to say that. Take a break bob. Go out and breathe some fresh air. Maybe hug a tree. 😂
I did this when I started out, picked up 2x HP DL380p 2Us, and then quickly realized I should start with consumer x86 hardware. Recently setup a Dell T7610 as my truenas core machine
using an dell optiplex 7050 with i5 gen 6 and 32gb of ram, ran proxmox with truenas, ubuntu server, freepbx, and windows 7 for torrent station, my one and only home server :)
the intel arc card is interesting but isn't its transcoding capabilities a bit reliant on resizable bar being turned on? I don't think the R730 has such an option in BIOS
You're probably aware by now but if the bios and idrac firmware have been updated then the fans will spin extra fast whenever a non-Dell PCI card or hard drive are detected. You'll need to search for "ipmitool" and use that to manually set the fans to something reasonable. Also, to others who may find this, the remote console feature requires a license from Dell which the previous owner may or may not have purchased. Lastly, you'll probably want to set the raid controller to "hba" mode before you start installing drives.
Starving children in.... YOU..... (youtube won't let me call you an effluent hole). I live in Africa. I haven't been a starving children but that joke was offensive. Send me that server.
that vga slot is 8x, while the other is 16x, plus intel arc are not 100% perfect with this r730. get a rtx 30 or rtx 40 series and ull be better in stability. i tried the arc 770 and pc crash when installing chipset or inteldrivers very often, plus this card got low performance.
Machine primarily does transcoding so slot speed hasn’t been a huge factor. Has been rock solid with stability for months now as well with the Linux drivers. In fact, I’ve had the Arc, a 7900xtx, and now a 4090 in my main machine, and I’ve actually had the most driver and stability issues with the 4090 surprisingly.
Reminds me of exactly how I felt when I got my first poweredge server. It's a super fun hobby, and that's a great way to start.
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If you move to a colder climate you would need to upgrade your server farm to stay warm. Don't listen to those central heating losers. BTW, Nvidia P40s are pretty cheap and you can use them for transcoding, Stable diffusion, AI and ML.
That is very affordable option from what i seen. I just ordered one workstation t7820 with warranty, its with next scalable generation(1st one), but from the specs and options this gives you its very good option, and maybe would be even better for me too. I plan to use it as a server which workstations are not supposed to be, but still solid solution for continual operation i guess.
I got a Dell R900 for $80 like 6 months ago (4 cpus, 128gb ram)! Its been such an experience learning on it! I would love to know more about the powering of the GPU and anything else as the only way I'm powering any pcie devices is I've added a desktop psu along side the server. If I could power it all internally that would be sooo much easier!
I use a R730XD for my TrueNAS server running plex and its awesome. I have another R730 as my Proxmox host running things like docker, AMP for game servers, and some windows VMs. I use the Dell IPMI iDrac fan tool to quiet them. They are right next to me in my office and are no louder than say a gaming PCs fan noise while gaming.
Enterprise gear is the most efficient use per watt... there's a reason why all the ps's are Platinum or titanium rated (Actual, not chinese slap-on sticker)
DC Engineer here and also Dell PowerEdge hardware certified. R700 series are good machines, we have over 400 of them in the DC i work at. Personally for home i use a PowerEdge T110 tower server, beefed up with the best CPU's i could shove in it. Power consumption is sensible and best of all its Silent. I have it in a cupboard not far from our living room and cannot hear it. I used ESXi and virtualise everything Pfsense, NAS, UniFi server, Pi-Hole etc.
I just upgraded one of my servers in the datacenter, i switches from a Dell R620 to a R640, and i think the biggest upgrade is DDR4 RAM ;-). Plus it didnt even cost a lot more then a used R620 Great Video btw! :)
