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I was expecting it to be loud but holy crap when it’s starting up it is so loud I can’t turn it on when anyone else is home

1 Server turns into 3 and so on, I am currently on my 4th R720 in my rack :D Couldn't be happier with them

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.

Thanks for making this video bud. Thinking of getting one myself for stable diffusion

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 currently have plans to put a server on the floor or under my bed

could you update the fans to make it quieter? maybe use Noctura style fans?

Liked it right after: "Buy it and figure out the solution later" and subscribed after I saw it in the closet haha

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.

i have one, how should i start installing it?

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.

"Not only am I impatient, but I'm also a cheap ass" literally me

Great video defo want to try those Mocas myself

The long awaited sequel! Hopefully as entertaining and funny as the last one

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

well done. i used to learn that way.

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.

are you running it 24/7/31?

your server is in the closet lol

Make another video…u funny af when u said “the server doesn’t deserve more than that” 😂

I'd be offended by the nerd comment.... if I had anything larger than a 42U rack... THOSE NERDS!

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.

Your video editing sucks. You clearly are on the spectrum. Great idea I am going to ebay now.

Fantastic server.

I ended up going with a used Supermicro. For the same price it just came with more. My R720 had too many problems with drive compatibility.

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.

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.

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!

One video?! Lets see more! ;) I like your personality and enthusiasm 🤣 Also, did she make you remove it from the closet yet? haha.

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! :)

Too much electricity?

i would go used like you but i cant it has to be whisper quite because i live in a 2 bedroom house and i have 2 brother liveing with me one in the back bedroom and one in the liveing room i have a firewall and 2 servers running with my 10 gb network switch and you cant hear anything and he sleep good new out will have a place for a server rack so it dont be in the liveing room but well its in the liveing room i also used it to place my sourround sound system on it as well so its like a 2 in one

Is it worth today? I found 6 of them with 256 gb ram ddr4, 2 x intel 2690 v4, perc raid installed, x16 sff . 500 dollar per piece, is it worth ?

I believe that the R730 has a bios/idrac update that will update the virtual console to use HTML 5 instead of Java. For me this made getting the VC to work much more reliably.

Because i can...famous last words before the checking account is drained.

Hi,.im interested in purchasing this server. I understand you are running proxmox and have 6 x 3.5" hds. Can you tell me how you have your storage setup? What raid configuration?

Well, at least this guy is cute!