Thanks for the great work you do educating the community. Is Load reduced not ECC? I read that ZFS needs ECC to guard against corruption before writing to persistence, so I'm wondering if Load reduced memory will work as reliably as "normal" ECC RDIMMS? Thanks
Great question! Yes. Load reduced is also ECC. They are very reliable. I personally favor them over registered. Excellent DIMMs. And your timing is perfect as we are running a special on 32GB and 64GB DDR3 load reduced modules right now. Take care!
Was wondering Is it possible to completely disable the controller to need you to create a virtual drive or raid in order to install an OS? On a r820? Like a normal BIOS reading your formatted sata drives right away.
You can boot from a disk, but to see the drives you need to initialize them in the raid controller menu, hit ctr+(something) while raid controller is initalizing and then hit f2, create a virtual disk, select the disk, raid 0, continue, ok and then just wait some time
@@leonardotoschi585 Yeah, I have all my drives in there as Raid 0 meanwhile, I only use it for VM so nothing to work with redundancy. I noticed my r820 doesn’t have an HBA or IT mode settings like my r730XD.
okay so the server can take a max of 3 TB of RAM what is the best CPU X 4 for these servers? I might upgrade my CPU first since I am guessing the RAM will cost a pretty penny to upgrade it to 3TB of RAM. I ask because I just bought this server should be in next week. Thanks for any help with this.
@@cloudninjas Awesome ty!! This is the one I just bought no Hard drives yet I was thinking of some intel SSD. Dell PowerEdge R820 Server 4x E5-4620 2.2GHz 8C 128GB 8x Trays H710 Enterprise.
I am surprised you guys haven't done any R830 videos.
Hopefully soon. Lots of servers to cover! R430 series starts tomorrow.
We do have the R830 in our upcoming plans though!
@@cloudninjas I will continue to watch your R730 videos then. :)
Thanks for the great work you do educating the community.
Is Load reduced not ECC? I read that ZFS needs ECC to guard against corruption before writing to persistence, so I'm wondering if Load reduced memory will work as reliably as "normal" ECC RDIMMS?
Thanks
Great question! Yes. Load reduced is also ECC. They are very reliable. I personally favor them over registered. Excellent DIMMs. And your timing is perfect as we are running a special on 32GB and 64GB DDR3 load reduced modules right now. Take care!
@@cloudninjas Thanks. Sounds good. I'll take a look. Thanks for letting me know
With one of these, I could virtualize an entire home lab on one box.
Yes it's a great box! Big fan.
Was wondering
Is it possible to completely disable the controller to need you to create a virtual drive or raid in order to install an OS? On a r820?
Like a normal BIOS reading your formatted sata drives right away.
You can boot from a disk, but to see the drives you need to initialize them in the raid controller menu, hit ctr+(something) while raid controller is initalizing and then hit f2, create a virtual disk, select the disk, raid 0, continue, ok and then just wait some time
@@leonardotoschi585 Yeah, I have all my drives in there as Raid 0 meanwhile, I only use it for VM so nothing to work with redundancy. I noticed my r820 doesn’t have an HBA or IT mode settings like my r730XD.
okay so the server can take a max of 3 TB of RAM what is the best CPU X 4 for these servers? I might upgrade my CPU first since I am guessing the RAM will cost a pretty penny to upgrade it to 3TB of RAM. I ask because I just bought this server should be in next week. Thanks for any help with this.
Will update you shortly with some good procs for the R820. Thank you. Take care.
@@cloudninjas Awesome ty!! This is the one I just bought no Hard drives yet I was thinking of some intel SSD. Dell PowerEdge R820 Server 4x E5-4620 2.2GHz 8C 128GB 8x Trays H710 Enterprise.
Some sweet procs would be E5-4650v2 ten core 2.4GHz. If you need any RAM then please email us. Would love to quote you. Take care.
So if I install rdimms and use 16gb R2x4 can I load all 48 slots as its rank2 and 4 channels each gives me 8ranks correct? Thus giving me 768gb ram?