I have run a lot of these, and what really triggers the fans are consumer SSDs/HDDs lacking proper temperature sensors (this makes the fan go nuts), and hot PCIe cards, specifically NC522SFP raises the fan noise a good amount, and a QLE2562 makes them run pretty fast. With both PCIe cards, they are no longer fun to be near. Also running in an other mode than power saving also raises the fan speed a little. It is also worth adding that servers prior to Gen8 had no trouble with non-HP disks. Gen8+ has some issues sometimes.
You are running low power usage profile. It shows that information on every reboot you did a few lines at the bottom. You need also to select a more aggressive fan profile if you run it full throttle. I still run the very same machine but full tier with 2xX5675 and 288Gb of ram. I had to upgrade the heatsinks with copper one. Just one hint. When you apply thermal paste, do it a straight line top to bottom. The cpu die is rectangular top to bottom shaped. No need for the extra on the corners. I use arctic cooling mx4...almost 10°C less in full load. I do run my machine rackmounted in air conditioned environment.
In my experience, non-HP drives have never caused their fans to spin up. I used to have a DL380 G5 and it never did this. My current DL360e Gen8 doesn't do this either. I use all non-HP drives, and both systems never complained.
The " very old" DL360G3s used to hate incorrect drives and running non-sanctioned operating systems. The fan speeds used to go nuts, regardless of the ambient temperature. Glad HP has moved away from that idea..... even if it was a small move. 😁
Arrggh you have done it wrong!! Look at you bios boot screen! Low power profile setting. Go into the bios and set the power profile to balanced. This will give full CPU performance. Maybe do the video again when set correctly? Get true bench results. Also. Install hardware monitor (hwmonitor) and check the system temps. And the cooling profile. Silent does get a bit too high, in server room with AC It maybe okay... Passive is fine, that is what you seems to be testing for (with ramp up) And there is active cooling... (Ear plugs required). Hope you got it sorted now ;)
I can confirm that on the DL380 G7... Certain drives will cause the server to ramp up the fan speeds... For the longest time I ran a random mix of drives (SSD, SAS, SATA) and it was quiet, put in some genuine HP drives (maxed out all 8 slots) and it remained quiet for about a month. Then it would randomly ramp up the fans to 78%. Upgraded everything (bios, firmware, iLO, etc) and the fans wouldn't budge. I could reset the iLO connection and it would go back to 13% fan for about 2 hrs then creep slowly up to 78% and never go back down. No errors reported anywhere - health was "green" on all sensors, and temps were less than half of "caution" level. I got fed up... Lol, started pulling out drives and ended up pulling all but my 2 SSDs before it quieted back down to "normal". No idea why it randomly started to do that with the fans after 2 years of quiet operation. Purchased a netApp disk shelf to put the 6 drives that I pulled out and currently using that as my "storage". Also the drives topped out at 2TB, didn't have anything else bigger to test with.
Morton, it's the HP G8's and above that get really noisy. Because the Caddies has a chip in it. I have replace the 300GB drives with 900GB Drives and had no issues, but when Using a drive without a cady the fans spin to 100%. I use the 146GB caddies because they were free. Also i would change power mode from "Static Low Power" to Dynamic.
I have 3 of these and they run very well. i have 2x 4 bay and 1x 8 bay. And yes they are very quiet for servers. All have dual x5550 cpu's and 72 Gigs of ram each.
Hey Morten, glad your memory worked out OK and was surprised. Dug out my 16GB sticks (which didn't work for me in my G6) and notice they are stickered Cisco. Perhaps the SPD settings have been changed ? Who knows. Seeing as you have enough RAM to fill all three memory channels, would you consider doing a RAM speed check with 3x DIMMs, then 6x DIMMs then 9xDIMMs to see the effect of loading the memory controller with those 2 rank sticks. Bob.
I have a DL360e Gen8 as a test server at home. Dual E5-2440's. Had 64 GB RAM, but got an unrecoverable error on a RDIMM on boot and wouldn't go into the O/S, so I had to isolate that RDIMM and just use 48 GB RAM. I tried a SATA HDD in a drive cage once and it came up. My machine uses the P822 RAID controller with 4 SAS drives normally and the fans make a lot of noise when it boots. I run Ubuntu server for file sharing and web serving.
i have a Dl360g6 2xE5540 16Gb ram. I don't have pci+m2. I currently use 4 hard drives: 2 HDDs (Seagate Barracuda 2TB) 2 SSDs (Crucial CT250MX 250BG) iLO 2.33 Biography 2018.05.21A the fans are constantly on 80% and therefore always make a lot of noise. I did some tests. With only SSDs it doesn't cause problems, with HDDs instead, after a couple of minutes at 10% or off, they start at 80% and stay there. Processor and system temp are ok.
Actually you can make this loud by setting Thermal configuration in bios to increased cooling. Or by putting some not supported hard drives into it - it will be much louder than in increased cooling mode Cheers!
@@MyPlayHouse Apparently that SSD which you put in was the drive supported by this backplane. Some of the SSDs work normally, some do not. Same with HDDs. Actually every drive works, but the backplane reads the drive temperature in wrong way so it thinks the drive is overheating and the fans ramp up to around 80% ;D
running 3x hp dl360 g6 together with an ibm x3650 m3 for years now. with the best servers u can get on the used market. have them all running with dual xeon x5670. the hps run with max x5675 as mentioned below. the ibm could go up to x5690 but the x5670 just deliver the best performance for the bucks. for the discs i use seagate constellation.2 1tb sas drives. just get one of the more beefy hp pcie raid controllers like the p812 with 1gb cache fbwc. with 8 discs (u have to sacrifice the cd rom for that and get a 2nd backplane kit) u can get almost sata ssd speeds.
Did you notice your new processor was down locking to 1.6ghz? Maybe why the performance boost was lower than expected.... check out the post screen for more info
Thanks for the demo and info. I just got a DL360P G8, do you know if they make an SSD caddy? Or do I just do the cardboard trick? Do you notice a difference with the SAS drive versus SSD. Thanks
Great video! I have one of these in my office and I want to build it out to do crypto mining. CPU this unit is not strong enough for even nice hash to pick up so I need to and will get the most recent CPU for this unit and I’m thinking of getting Nvidia K1200s. What do you think?
good video well done, I have a problem on a server of the POWER DELL 2950 model, I have the internal fans running at full speed ....... I changed the fan N.3 where there was an error !!! ! but still spinning fast ..... what can I do !!!!!
Great video thank you Can you measure the power it consume right now on this low power Bios settings? Then measure it again when you change the power settings? Have a great day and thanks again for the video
joebonsaipoland Woooww! You say vSAN suck and yet you haven’t even got it working 🤣 and you compare it with a non-enterprise product that doesn’t even provide a similar solution haha 😆
Did you have the oportunity to mount an array using the fron docks AND Sata SSDs? Im having problems with mines, theirs disks starts showing amber lights randomly after some time or some reboot. IT doesnt happens at all with the SAS HDDs... Im trying to find out whats happening. Mine is a dl360 G7 btw, seems pretty identical to yours G6
Wondering if you were able to get the Raid controller installed without any issues. Having issue with mine saying "Hardware Configuration lock-up state until the issue is resolved." Have tried just about everything to get it to get out of that mode. Any tips and tricks are welcomed.
For the dl360 g6 you recommand x5679 for me... I find that cpu, so how wold i overclock it on that server to maxx his performance ... May i will use watercooling custom designe... And what about x5680 cpu
I keep getting a 207 Memory Initialization error in my DL360 G7 on startup for Proc 2. Ever encountered that before? I wonder if its a bad stick. They are all the same exact HP number. All 9 sticks in Proc 1s slots are good.
@@MyPlayHouse yes all 9 sticks for the 2nd CPU are all the same indentical to the nine ones on the 1st CPU. The ones for the 1st CPU all work and report the correct amount of RAM for that set of 9
Yeah you played with HP DL380 G6... Ya you need to change the bios setting to full extreme performance mode you will get more points out of that old 6 core CPU. It will then be a tad louder as well :P Nice test video on what you can add to a home server. With the cost of cheep SSD/NVMe drives no Point in adding slow SAS drives in a server like this.
Hi, I got a question about SSD. I try to change from HP Hard Disk to SSD ( 2 units ). On first week all work fine, but after some days Server start to hang up and finally data was corrupted on SSD. I check both SSD and are without damage. Any idea Why happen? i use two SSD Crucial MX500 2.5"
@@MyPlayHouse Thanks a Lot, anyway, it is possible change from Hard Disk to SSD getting all speed from SSD? Controller is capable to manage the high speed of SSD? By now, i bought a Caddy to put the SSD on CDROM interface and work very fast!
i just got a new HP DL360 G7 with that small 1 cpu 4 core 8 thread with hyper threading slow ... can i take the memory and 8 core 5520 from a Intel® Server Board S5520HC, S5520HCT to up grade the DL360 G7 ???
There is a very good chance that will work just fine. You can also go shop for something a little better : www.myplayhouse.dk/shop/en/processors/91-intel-xeon-e5530-4-cores-24ghz.html they are really not expensive.
I wold like if you could try out the performance on that SSD drive on HP Gen6, I did install one SATA SSD on mine (ml350 gen6) and although it works, it’s painfully slow in any performance compared to any other sata motherboard I used it. It is still better than the 7.2k sata drive it had but it’s far far from reaching anything over 60 or 80MBps :(
@@MyPlayHouse I should also mention that while the DL360 G6 will operate OK on a single SSD, it probably won't be good with a RAID of SSDs. This will depend in part on the brand/model of SSD, but the limitation is in the way the onboard RAID handles them. Plenty of results on this on Google search. Also with all 9 memory slots populated you may only get 800Mhz RAM speed.
I have a Dl380 G7 and oh boy is it picky. No problem with a Samsung 850evo (it seems to cheat, by only sending 35°C to the Bios via smart) also my transcend ssd370 (by itself) Both of them at the same time and the fans reach 50% in about two hours. I also tried some HGST drives from some Prodesks... Within an hour the fans went up to 77% felt like a jet is going through my living room. There is a list on the net though, of drives that are supposedly work fine.
