Getting started with my new Homelab Servers - Pt2 The little Dell R320
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2022
- Part 2 of.....who knows, The Dell R320 - from cheap empty server to full Windows Server 2022 Server with a run down of the power its using and a few plans for the future
If you join me on twitch this server is now hosting our GMod PropHunters Server along with a few others and I'll try and make some public ones soon as well
Power used by this server
Off - 8W
OS Idle - 84W
OS Full Load - 142W
Parts Used - Note these are Affiliate links so I do earn a tiny amount from them
6x Crucial BX500 240GB SSD - amzn.to/3G5u5XF
4x DDR3 ECC 16GB 1333 Registered Dimms
1x Intel I350 Quad Port Nic
The servers I purchased for the lab can be found at a reasonable cost
Dell R420 - £80 - £90 barebones
Dell R320 - £80 Barebones
HP DL190 Gen9 - £120 Barebones
This is the oldest generation I would recommend you buy, anything older and its a waste of money and power
Yes I waffle on alot in this video :-D
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I use these Watt meters all the time now ! Been using them for years to monitor my Lab usage for the year !! Good video JIm
It becomes another thing with numbers to monitor :-D
Just picked one of these up today (4 bay + DVD drive) A lot of good info in your video cheers!
Binging your videos, very useful and informative
That server... he's adorable. Then again, most PowerEdge units are. At least the X20 series didn't suffer from the weird early deaths, or I should say vegetative states that some eleventh generations suffered from, mine included. (My T110 has been alive for eleven years now, but he's only been productive for about eight of those. He's running, but even after a system board replacement, he never acted like his peers during the 2010/2011 era.)
I have my eyes peeled for a R340 to do a side by side comparison especially for power useage, the r330 changed to the smaller Xeon so not really a fair comparison
4:50, the fans can be hot swaped, just lift the air duckt, the fans have nice connectors
Great video Jim, thanks for the power testing. do you know if this server will be able to install ESXI 8? i'm looking between R230 vs R320 but i found R230 only support E3 and RAM upto 64GB, whereas R320 support E5 and 96GB RAM, thanks
What do you think about R220?
Hi, great video. I’m trying to build an home lab myself and I’m looking for a r320. If all goes well, I’ll have it next week. You installed server 2022, but I was looking at installing server 2016, or maybe 2019- what is your opinion on the best OS for this 12th gen hardware?
If you wanting to run windows then Server 2019/2022, honestly there is not a huge difference and if your learning you might as well be up to date rather than a few versions behind, mine has been on for a few weeks now with no issues with a few 2022 VMs hosted in Hyper-V with no issues
@@JimtheITguy but isn't this server only supported running up to Windows Server 2012 or something? I have been playing around with an R410 or an R230 and although I can install Windows Server 2019 on them just fine, the updates and drivers etc and everything on Dell's website only goes up as far as 2012. So what do we do?
Actually, the orange light is flashing because the top cover is off...in this case anyway. Can't wait to see more of the homelab.
The poor thing was unhappy with me for plugging and unplugging it while testing, and pulling it's top on and off every five mins lol
@@JimtheITguyJimtheITguy They get a bit unhappy with the lid off. Disable chassis intrusion in bios (I’m sure you are aware of this) or put a weight on the switch to closed position, I use the weight from my pressure cooker. Great content thanks.
Doesn't this server only support up to Windows Server 2012 or something? I have been playing around with an R410 or an R230 and although I can install Windows Server 2019 on them just fine, the updates and drivers etc and everything on Dell's website only goes up as far as 2012. So what do we do?
23:30 well dl360 g7 are down at 60-80€, with 2 6 cores and 64 gb ram, for me its a yes i wonder if esxi is a problem, just install it with a boot parameter
i have DL360 G7 installed esxi 7 on USB stick working find and it's detect internal SAS as local datastore.
What would you say the noise is like on the r320? I have a pair of r220s and they are basically silent at idle, I can sleep in the same room as them but I'm finding myself really limited by the lack of PCIe ports, having to chose between 10Gbe or a storage adapter, the r320 would solve that problem if they were about as quiet as the r220.
Alot noisier than the R220s due to the E5 series and potential for more, currently with the warm weather in the UK it's even more so
I have an R320 with an E5-2440, 6 DIMMs, 2 SSDs and 2 magnetic disks and it's nearly silent with a dozen VMs running (much quieter than in the video). Loud at boot and during very high CPU usage, but otherwise pretty quiet. I also have an R220 and the sound difference is not that great. It is possible to tweak the fans via IPMI (see /r/homelab) but I've not needed to do that. Note that I'm running Linux, not Windows.
@@mjturner Compared to the HP G9's i have running its very quiet, does yours have the 3.5" bays or 2.5"?
I have my R320 with the V2 10 core, 96GB RAM and Server 2019 runing the fans at ~5% that is just fine in a flat.
Wouldn't want it in th eliving room, but open door to the room with the server is no problem at all.
Powersetting, performance per watt, OS
Is there another way to install an OS without using a virtual disk? Im using random consumer HDDs by the way.
I install using USB pen and booting from it
@@JimtheITguy Yeah, of course, but does the drivers show up without making a virtual drive first?
@@zaxmaxlax Ah! Gotcha, no you will need to make a VD if using the Perc card that's not been changed to HBA mode
You have to flash the perc
I think r320 is better than 330, this had e5 low profiles but up to 10 cores, 330 takes e3 v6 wich are STILL quad cores newer but sower, gonna purchase one with 2430v2 and 16gb to do routering on pfsense
hi, have you made decision? i'm thinking between R330 vs R320 for Esxi 8, and not sure about the low power consumption compare between thsese two model?
@@sunnylm2045 r320 has more processing power, you can get up to 10 cores, but r330 uses less power because it takes the e3 v5-v6 that are all 4 cores running at high clock, but i would not recommend it if you want to do esxi. i would instead go for the r320. I don't know if the latest version of esxi works on them because i still use the free 7.0.3. But you can bypass the cpu check pressing shift + o on boot and entering allowLegacyCPU=true
Why do you say raid 5 is bad for HDD?
UREs with raid 5, with larger hard disks you stand a very high chance of being unable to recover a failed array.....been there
@@JimtheITguy what about raid z2? Currently running 5x 10TB spinning SAS drives in a t620
OS Idle - 84W and Winbloat ? No thank you !
Don't buy old servers - *Me still running a PE1950 w/ 16GB of DDR2 RAM as my personal Tekkit server*
wow, great, i'm' still using Dell R610 for esxi 7.0
AFAIK, this server only has a TPM 1.2 chip, which Windows Server 2022 won't make use of, so enabling it is pointless.
"Stop buying old Server" YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO >:C
Ok, I STRONGLY advise you not to buy old servers 😁
20:30 if youre elon musk ok...