You will be surprised that even in the older days of desktop PC, they also share the same chassis, example, the Phantom 530 and Source 530 shares the same chassis, just exterior looks different.
I'm actually really surprised. I missed this budget launch of their Xeon E series and now that I look at it I can see that the Xeon E-2288g is a 9900k with ECC support and runs on the C240 chipset. Very cool.
To be fair you can pull the metal supports for the two bottom disks with two screws and put the disks on them without the drive holders. Just use the holes on the back of the disk, not the sides. But I agree, two bits of plastic wouldn't have added anything noticeable to the cost of the machine yet would make the package more appealing.
one note: the T40 lower two hard drive mounts don’t use a blue sled type mount. Only the vertical 3.5inch mount uses a plastic insert. I have a Dell XPS 8930 that uses the same case as the T40. My XPS came with a hard drive one of the bottom bays. The hard drive screws into the metal cage with the old school style 4 screws from the sides of the HDD cage. You are able to reach these screws by taking out a drive cage by undoing the two screws holding each of the two cages to the larger case. So they did not jip you are two mount as it appears. Also my case came with an empty sled in the top HDD mount.
I'm kind of happy for the front ODD. I managed to find ODD to 2.5" SATA adapter that is front-loaded and trayless. So much cleaner than keeping around always failing USB to SATA adapters. Edit: It's Icy Dock MB511SPO-B. Just be careful and watch what you're buying, because early versions of this adapter do not use standard slim SATA power plug, but Berg 4-pin floppy connector (!).
HP/Compaq was hinging their PSUs up and out. HP even had it to where you could just lift the PSU all the way out of the system without removing the PSU cables (most were long enough but not on all systems).
Usually one -sort of- have to get iLo Advanced or something similar. Basic support only bios things and it is much easier to admin when one can see that crashed system screen, kernel panics etc.
This video cough my attention, is a nice option. The optical drive is useful if your server will be used as a station to rip audio CDs or movie DVDs. :)
holy shit!!! a pci slot!!! I know some people who will be ALL OVER this thing! some handy stuff you could do with with a PCI slot if you like to experiment or do things for fun. and @
This reminds me of an old PowerEdge (Pentium 4 based) machine that got me through a number of years. There was a deal around $350 as well but the RDRAM upgrade cost more than half of the machine.
Which part? The cover image was in our actual photography studio which we lost access to months ago due to the pandemic. But this was shot on our new camera :-)
@@ServeTheHomeVideo The lighting on Patrick, it feels more professional bc he it got this magazine-style fading into darkness thing going on with the face
Largely due to the camera actually. All of the main camera was shot on the (used but new to us) Canon C200 in raw. The old Panasonic S1 is the side camera that gives the further left perspective. With the C200 we can do more with shadows but it took a long time to get them to remotely match. Thanks for the comment and observation.
Goes to show the T140 is the better server. It can also be found on clearance regularly for about $500 and it has all 4 sleds included and iDRAC. Mine now has a E2136 Xeon, 48GB RAM and all expansion slots filled but one X1 slot. Runs ESXi great.
FYI on the M.2 slot, on the T30 Dell disabled the M.2 slot for newer bios after 1.02 (I think). Dell gave no reason for this, just that it wasn't "part of the spec". I would be curious if you downgrade to the oldest bios, if the M.2 slot starts to work. Many with the T30 are still running 1.00 bios for M.2 slot use.
I secured a job in my last graduation semester. What i learned is during upgrades u usually want to do theme in steps. So having that PCI slot in the T40 helped quite a lot in our case with the serial card used for the phone relay we have. I use this server daily as a workstation (yeah), reason i do it is bc i never turn it off, it runs windows 10 and i can always remote desktop into it
@@JohnFekoloid These servers are quite powerfull for the price and age. We still havent replaced theme. Maybe in some futre with Dell T150s with 8 core xeons. For now they are very very reliable. Nothing faild on theme at all, we just did a Samsung SSD upragrade and thats it
As a 30 yo, I know what PCI is and built a PC a few years back to use a wireless card on PCI. As for the T40, this is just a workstation that Dell recycled the motherboard and case. A server needs front 4+ HDDs, RAID, and 2+ network ports. Out of band management is necessary for corporations and multi-office networks only (homes don't necessarily need it). As a server, the T40 is not one. As a remote render/remote processing system, this can do BUT someone looking for a remote render/remote processing system should get a used medium end gaming system and offload their video encoding/photo processing/Folding@Home onto that. Overall, the T40 makes no sense as it is a regular computer and not a "server".
I have been looking at this as a workstation to install Arch or a Debian Linux system on. I currently have an old 2011 i5 Dell laptop that runs Ubuntu 18.04 but I've been thinking it may become my backup system or travel computer. I currently use this laptop to edit and render videos. I render about 45 minutes of video a week. I need storage but want something that will handle the processing load. I am not a gamer. Is this a good fit? Other recommendations? I like this price point and the specs on the memory upgrade ability. My laptop only supports up to 8Gb DDR3 1333.
Optical drive is very important. Some tech company wants to keep workstations out of network and use CAD to design something or backup daily updates which no one can create them back or take very long time, they use DVDs to store them, since the tape drive is no longer fast or capable. Please keep an optical drive for these purposes, I beg.
Hello ServeTheHome, we currently have this server in our small home office with the same specifications. 8gb RAM, 1TB HDD. Currently we just use it for file sharing. File sharing can be done very nicely with a NAS. I'd appreciate if you tell me any other role to add to this server as it is without breaking it? Thanks
Tbf if your reaction to seeing a quick start guide in an enterprise server box is "Oh thank God I wasn't sure what to do" then you probably wouldn't want it to say anything more.
Delightful! Minute 3: the T40 Quick Start Guide. I had to laugh aloud! I have now the 5820 Xeon Workstation, and the Quick Start Guide is also the "Dell Hardware Users Manual Standard": Plug in that power cord! Press the button! You done, already runs that big workstation with all these carriers, boards and mysterious features on the motherboard. Of course I failed the IQ test and failed to remove the bezel to the hard drive bays. I had to call Dell, open a "customer service case." The solution was simple really: To protect the bays from access one needs to open the side panel and press a hardware unlock button located inside. Hm... that would be an item for the Quick Start Guide, I would think. Later I failed to remove the 2.5" drive spacer from the HDD carrier. That thing is like a puzzle of sorts, I did not wanted to break anything and opened another Dell support case. My body showed me around 11pm on zoom session how to do that. I am sure that T40 guide has a similar list of misses and faults.
Yeah the PCI slot looks like something to connect a card to interface with an old point of sale/ticket system. That stuff isn't cheap, especially when PCI cards were the main standard.
My T30 has been solid. Upgraded the CPU to E3-1245 v5 and a second 8 GB stick of ECC memory. It's been great with UNRAID running a couple VMS and a bunch of docker containers.
ISA. I Saw An ISA. It's black, it's big, it's ISA. I once saw an old x-ray machine which got upgraded with DICOM. The technician had an antistatic box. He opened the x-ray, took out an EPROM and installed the new EPROM. Socketed EPROM. I'm old.
There is a way of getting it back which involves calling Dell tech support and ask them to allow you to download the first bios released for this and do a regression to that, but also God knows what bugs you're running into by doing that
I'd be curious to find out if amd64 really had any impact in the consumer space before Vista in the US; i'd be surprised if anyone knew about PCIe prior to 2008 here it Aus. Edit: PCIe was standardised in 2003, so not before then.
You explained well what Dell T40 is all about. But you are really downplaying this only thinking of the actual hardware and comparing it to expensive systems. Last 8yrs years, I have set up over 125, Dell T20, T30, T40 Servers in small businesses (Medical, Dental centres, small offices, etc). These businesses need small servers for their client-server software. They NEVER EVER fail. Run 24x7 for last so many years. I only did change harddisks to SSDs. Has Intel KVM (vPro) backend access too (similar to iDRAC). Yes, they are not German Mercedes grade but maybe reliable/vale for money Toyota level. I have used very expensive big Dell Serves in my last job. Trust me, they fail too - big expensive failures. So for small business without very heavy processing, these are extremely reliable and value for money systems.
If you remove the optical drive, could you fit a 4th hard disc up there or somewhere - as that seems to be the only flaw apart from the silly carriers Dell use for drives.
@@ServeTheHomeVideo I was thinking that might be the case and that there isn't more room up there. Such a shame, a 4th bay would make a world of difference.
Has any one of you guys tried to put more than 3 LFF HDDs in there? I know it is not possible by design and you even need a raid card, but with only 3 bays, I cannot use this as a nas.
Audio sounds much more improved. Did something change lately? Also interesting that they have legacy ports and even an optical drive but it doesn’t come with VGA output; Especially considering the lack of idrac/network management port. Could just use an adapter but eh. It’s cheap enough regardless. Good for small offices, businesses and homelabbers of course :-)
personally; i just buy cheap second hand Dell Precision 3620's and run them in a ESXi cluster, yes no iDrac but still cheaper and often more performance then any of these "new" micro server options even if you have to buy a PCIe RAID controller and a Intel X540 NIC.
@@paulvancyber1979 the Ryzen?? offcourse . i love it. there is a cheep Asus barebone small pc thats gonna be available anytime soon. ill get 2 of thoes and replace 2 intels. 4600u and 4500u
@@homegeographic5351 yes I mean, for a server like this, for example in mexico, the small business would buy it, but man. Really 4 cores in 2020??? at least we need it whit hyper threading, for the antivirus, the users, the active domain, damn, intel is giving the same
We got it for $339 with a bit of coupon stacking three quarters ago. It has gone on sale without any other discounts needed for $349 several times now. I probably should have said $349 throughout.
Air flow and proprietary power and fan connectors are a real pain when trying to upgrade these, (based on the T20 &T30) To upgrade the cpu cooler you have to buy a 5 pin fan adaptor and a power supply motherboard connector to use a more powerful power supply say you wanted to use the motherboard in a case with more 3.5 drive support
Understood, but entry level equipment are usually bought by price sensitive people, well at least for me when I bought my T20 , for a home server and it seems a waste to condemn it rather than upgrading and getting the most out of a perfectly good CPU and motherboard .
About the disk drive, I imagine like is the reason for many useless features no one really wants anymore and price drops, the answer is that it costs them so little to add the drive that they discounting the customer by a few dollars or cents would seem like a larger value drop than savings, and that changing costs money in rnd time.
you can get an r710 or something for about $250 on ebay with about 24 cores and 32 gb ram. this thing only has 4 cores and a maximum of 64 gb, and on their website its $600+
these Precision rebranded PowerEdge's have given me a bad taste in my (used) experience setting them up for clients.. A T30 has 4 HDD bays, and it had an M.2 slot from being based on a Precision Board, but Dell disabled it via bios updates (Major dick move imho). but it at least had 4 HDD bays which I consider the minimum to be useful (even if you use a mirror/raid1, what are you going to do when you want to migrate to bigger disks?) this T40 seems like it continues the trend of slapping names onto boxes without any regard to actual use.
Incorrect. If you were to actually look/check, instead of exaggerate, you will see that you CAN mount the HDs to the metal cages with screws on the bottom of the HD!
Unfortunatelly this is no server, no management at all, basically workstation with mismatched name. Edit: it actually has Intel AMT, so atleast it includes something...
Does anybody know if this uses the exact same motherboard as the workstation? This server isn't made to be a pro server, I believe it's more for small business applications such as document or medical record management systems which need a common server.
I think it is actually the 3630 motherboard but there are some strange bits such as our M.2 slot not working which make me think there are some differences. You could use this as an inexpensive workstation without much issue.
oddly.. i bought one of these today partially because it had a PCI slot (for a genuine hardware parallel port card) and a serial port. We have old zund cutting machines that need a (real) parallel port for a software dongle and a serial port to drive the thing........ The things run linux, virtualising windows 98 and win2k (due to needing some seriously old software that works like a champ driving machines used all day 5 days a week for the last 22 years).... Yeah... get off my lawn Damn kids !
It’s not a servers, just a pc with a Xeon cpu. To me a server has minimum dual Xeon dual psu, some kinda management system and raid ability. My 2 cents 🤷🏻♂️
What about a single AMD EPYC 7702P server? Only one CPU in that configuration. You are right that this is pushing it from a traditional server aspect carrying the "PowerEdge" brand.
ServeTheHomeVideo but do you see the price point ? That’s along the line or server status. However still needs more integration features. I guess nowadays anything can be called a server 🤷🏻♂️
No ISA slot? What the the heck?
He... had to explain what a PCI slot was.
Oh god, I'm getting old, aren't I?
I think we all are... every day ;-)
Not only that he mentioned we have gray hair.
I don't yet, but that might be because there isn't much hair left..
You're only getting old if you can explain what an S-100 slot is. ;-)
This looks suspiciously like the same chassis as the Dell Alienware Aurora, just with different plastic bits...
@LD2165 nothing new for dell.
They get some serious mileage out of their housings.
Most of their designs, are crazy modular.
@LD2165 that's just dell for ya.
They stretch that r&d and manufacturing dollar till it screams for mercy.
You will be surprised that even in the older days of desktop PC, they also share the same chassis, example, the Phantom 530 and Source 530 shares the same chassis, just exterior looks different.
and their optiplex lineup.
Thanks for the demo and info have a great day
I like these kind of videos, thanks!
This feels more like a Doug DeMuro video than an STH one.. Absolutely amazing
Ha! Doug is awesome.
ServeTheHomeVideo are we giving the machines a “Pat score”?
“THISSSSS is the dell t40 server....”
“I rented this PowerEdge T40 from Truro, which allows you to rent luxury servers from people from across the nation...”
My guess is the optical drive is there for some government contract reasons
I'm actually really surprised. I missed this budget launch of their Xeon E series and now that I look at it I can see that the Xeon E-2288g is a 9900k with ECC support and runs on the C240 chipset. Very cool.
Does this means I can use of the intel Xeon e 2200 series in this server and take full performance of it ?
Nice review. I got these T series on sale before and were pretty good. Now all I buy is 1U servers
To be fair you can pull the metal supports for the two bottom disks with two screws and put the disks on them without the drive holders. Just use the holes on the back of the disk, not the sides. But I agree, two bits of plastic wouldn't have added anything noticeable to the cost of the machine yet would make the package more appealing.
Patrick is throwing hard shade today. And I like it. Also I am 35 and I remember PCI fondly. Lol.
Dell was feeling eccentric one day and now they use that swing-out power supply design everywhere
one note: the T40 lower two hard drive mounts don’t use a blue sled type mount. Only the vertical 3.5inch mount uses a plastic insert.
I have a Dell XPS 8930 that uses the same case as the T40. My XPS came with a hard drive one of the bottom bays. The hard drive screws into the metal cage with the old school style 4 screws from the sides of the HDD cage. You are able to reach these screws by taking out a drive cage by undoing the two screws holding each of the two cages to the larger case. So they did not jip you are two mount as it appears. Also my case came with an empty sled in the top HDD mount.
07:40
“We are still using something from the year 2000”
Well 2000 wasn’t too long ago and ... OMG it is.
Well he is off by a few years as PCI is from 1992 :)
I'm kind of happy for the front ODD. I managed to find ODD to 2.5" SATA adapter that is front-loaded and trayless. So much cleaner than keeping around always failing USB to SATA adapters. Edit: It's Icy Dock MB511SPO-B. Just be careful and watch what you're buying, because early versions of this adapter do not use standard slim SATA power plug, but Berg 4-pin floppy connector (!).
Looks almost exactly like the Precision models at my uni.
Precision Systems from back in 2002 already had nifty power block hinge systems. Dell is famous for that smart engineering
HP/Compaq was hinging their PSUs up and out. HP even had it to where you could just lift the PSU all the way out of the system without removing the PSU cables (most were long enough but not on all systems).
Great video comes with great voice
New subscriber here. I feel terrible it took me so long to find the channel. Fantastic content. I look forward to binge watching more videos.
Welcome. Working a lot on getting our videos to be better in the near future as well.
Thanks. Your video quality is already great. Have a great week 🙂
Usually one -sort of- have to get iLo Advanced or something similar. Basic support only bios things and it is much easier to admin when one can see that crashed system screen, kernel panics etc.
Can I get upgrade the cpu on this server to any of the intel Xeon e 2200 series ?, like E-2288G ?
Hi Sir, I am thinking of buying this server. I was wonder would I be able to replace the CPU heatsink with a better one?
Thanks
I echo the good lighting and Doug DeMuro comments 🙂
This video cough my attention, is a nice option. The optical drive is useful if your server will be used as a station to rip audio CDs or movie DVDs. :)
holy shit!!! a pci slot!!! I know some people who will be ALL OVER this thing! some handy stuff you could do with with a PCI slot if you like to experiment or do things for fun. and @
This reminds me of an old PowerEdge (Pentium 4 based) machine that got me through a number of years. There was a deal around $350 as well but the RDRAM upgrade cost more than half of the machine.
Great work on the lighting!
Which part? The cover image was in our actual photography studio which we lost access to months ago due to the pandemic.
But this was shot on our new camera :-)
@@ServeTheHomeVideo The lighting on Patrick, it feels more professional bc he it got this magazine-style fading into darkness thing going on with the face
Largely due to the camera actually. All of the main camera was shot on the (used but new to us) Canon C200 in raw. The old Panasonic S1 is the side camera that gives the further left perspective. With the C200 we can do more with shadows but it took a long time to get them to remotely match. Thanks for the comment and observation.
@@ServeTheHomeVideo Oh, got it. Thanks for the insight
Goes to show the T140 is the better server. It can also be found on clearance regularly for about $500 and it has all 4 sleds included and iDRAC. Mine now has a E2136 Xeon, 48GB RAM and all expansion slots filled but one X1 slot. Runs ESXi great.
FYI on the M.2 slot, on the T30 Dell disabled the M.2 slot for newer bios after 1.02 (I think). Dell gave no reason for this, just that it wasn't "part of the spec". I would be curious if you downgrade to the oldest bios, if the M.2 slot starts to work. Many with the T30 are still running 1.00 bios for M.2 slot use.
The T30 has 4 slots for 3.5" drives. Comes with the drive holders also. Getting cheaper on the second hand market too...
what's a good mini server to use for my lab to run ESXI or Proxmox to run Networking Labs. Something on the affordable end...
I secured a job in my last graduation semester. What i learned is during upgrades u usually want to do theme in steps. So having that PCI slot in the T40 helped quite a lot in our case with the serial card used for the phone relay we have. I use this server daily as a workstation (yeah), reason i do it is bc i never turn it off, it runs windows 10 and i can always remote desktop into it
This is what we use as our office server. Windows server 2019 data centre. And I'm yet to work my head around it.
@@JohnFekoloid These servers are quite powerfull for the price and age. We still havent replaced theme. Maybe in some futre with Dell T150s with 8 core xeons. For now they are very very reliable. Nothing faild on theme at all, we just did a Samsung SSD upragrade and thats it
As a 30 yo, I know what PCI is and built a PC a few years back to use a wireless card on PCI. As for the T40, this is just a workstation that Dell recycled the motherboard and case. A server needs front 4+ HDDs, RAID, and 2+ network ports. Out of band management is necessary for corporations and multi-office networks only (homes don't necessarily need it). As a server, the T40 is not one. As a remote render/remote processing system, this can do BUT someone looking for a remote render/remote processing system should get a used medium end gaming system and offload their video encoding/photo processing/Folding@Home onto that. Overall, the T40 makes no sense as it is a regular computer and not a "server".
I have been looking at this as a workstation to install Arch or a Debian Linux system on. I currently have an old 2011 i5 Dell laptop that runs Ubuntu 18.04 but I've been thinking it may become my backup system or travel computer. I currently use this laptop to edit and render videos. I render about 45 minutes of video a week. I need storage but want something that will handle the processing load. I am not a gamer. Is this a good fit? Other recommendations? I like this price point and the specs on the memory upgrade ability. My laptop only supports up to 8Gb DDR3 1333.
Optical drive is very important.
Some tech company wants to keep workstations out of network and use CAD to design something or backup daily updates which
no one can create them back or take very long time, they use DVDs to store them, since the tape drive is no longer fast or capable.
Please keep an optical drive for these purposes, I beg.
Hello ServeTheHome, we currently have this server in our small home office with the same specifications. 8gb RAM, 1TB HDD. Currently we just use it for file sharing. File sharing can be done very nicely with a NAS. I'd appreciate if you tell me any other role to add to this server as it is without breaking it? Thanks
Tbf if your reaction to seeing a quick start guide in an enterprise server box is "Oh thank God I wasn't sure what to do" then you probably wouldn't want it to say anything more.
when the side panel came off... my first reactions was... "it offaly looks similar to a Alienware system somebody opened on youtube
Delightful! Minute 3: the T40 Quick Start Guide. I had to laugh aloud! I have now the 5820 Xeon Workstation, and the Quick Start Guide is also the "Dell Hardware Users Manual Standard":
Plug in that power cord!
Press the button!
You done, already runs that big workstation with all these carriers, boards and mysterious features on the motherboard. Of course I failed the IQ test and failed to remove the bezel to the hard drive bays. I had to call Dell, open a "customer service case." The solution was simple really: To protect the bays from access one needs to open the side panel and press a hardware unlock button located inside. Hm... that would be an item for the Quick Start Guide, I would think. Later I failed to remove the 2.5" drive spacer from the HDD carrier. That thing is like a puzzle of sorts, I did not wanted to break anything and opened another Dell support case. My body showed me around 11pm on zoom session how to do that. I am sure that T40 guide has a similar list of misses and faults.
My 2003 IBM NetVista had the swinging power supply.
It's the same chassis as the Alienware Aurora R11 that Linus Tech Tips just reviewed...
The Alienware looks cooler though :-)
I thought so as well.
This looks like something meant for restaurants and other low needs places that still need a "server"
Yeah the PCI slot looks like something to connect a card to interface with an old point of sale/ticket system. That stuff isn't cheap, especially when PCI cards were the main standard.
Can we use it as a pc with windows 10, i need to work on adobe illustrator adobe premiere pro etc. Please guide
Home lab, I am happy with the T30's I bought.
My T30 has been solid. Upgraded the CPU to E3-1245 v5 and a second 8 GB stick of ECC memory. It's been great with UNRAID running a couple VMS and a bunch of docker containers.
@@geoff650r I bought 32gb upgrade. Sadly I barely use the machine at the moment
Expensive! For children I bought a xeon 1220 v 3 for $40 on aliexpress :)
They're sub 30 on eBay.
ISA. I Saw An ISA. It's black, it's big, it's ISA.
I once saw an old x-ray machine which got upgraded with DICOM. The technician had an antistatic box. He opened the x-ray, took out an EPROM and installed the new EPROM. Socketed EPROM. I'm old.
I left ISA and AGP out of this one :-)
I can think of at least three former jobs where erasing EPROMs in a UV eraser was one of my tasks. :-)
I got one of these and it ticked me off that they had turned off the m.2 slot that is present on the board
There is a way of getting it back which involves calling Dell tech support and ask them to allow you to download the first bios released for this and do a regression to that, but also God knows what bugs you're running into by doing that
It's a dummy slot on the motherboard.
I'd be curious to find out if amd64 really had any impact in the consumer space before Vista in the US; i'd be surprised if anyone knew about PCIe prior to 2008 here it Aus.
Edit: PCIe was standardised in 2003, so not before then.
You explained well what Dell T40 is all about. But you are really downplaying this only thinking of the actual hardware and comparing it to expensive systems. Last 8yrs years, I have set up over 125, Dell T20, T30, T40 Servers in small businesses (Medical, Dental centres, small offices, etc). These businesses need small servers for their client-server software. They NEVER EVER fail. Run 24x7 for last so many years. I only did change harddisks to SSDs. Has Intel KVM (vPro) backend access too (similar to iDRAC). Yes, they are not German Mercedes grade but maybe reliable/vale for money Toyota level. I have used very expensive big Dell Serves in my last job. Trust me, they fail too - big expensive failures. So for small business without very heavy processing, these are extremely reliable and value for money systems.
If you remove the optical drive, could you fit a 4th hard disc up there or somewhere - as that seems to be the only flaw apart from the silly carriers Dell use for drives.
Maybe a SSD. ODDs are thinner than 3.5" disks
@@ServeTheHomeVideo I was thinking that might be the case and that there isn't more room up there. Such a shame, a 4th bay would make a world of difference.
How is the cpu doing?
Reminds me of the old HP ML110 Gen 6 and Gen 7
Has anyone tested this model with pfsense?
Has any one of you guys tried to put more than 3 LFF HDDs in there? I know it is not possible by design and you even need a raid card, but with only 3 bays, I cannot use this as a nas.
Audio sounds much more improved. Did something change lately?
Also interesting that they have legacy ports and even an optical drive but it doesn’t come with VGA output; Especially considering the lack of idrac/network management port. Could just use an adapter but eh.
It’s cheap enough regardless. Good for small offices, businesses and homelabbers of course :-)
Glad someone noticed. Switched to the Canon C200 for recording along with video. Also added a bunch of sound blankets (more coming this week)
personally; i just buy cheap second hand Dell Precision 3620's and run them in a ESXi cluster, yes no iDrac but still cheaper and often more performance then any of these "new" micro server options even if you have to buy a PCIe RAID controller and a Intel X540 NIC.
Can u run a couple of game servers like Minecraft, csgo, and so on with this machine
Yes
Hi,
Planning to buy this one.
Can we install Esxi on this server?
Sure, you can install it on any x86_64 pc you like.
Does the optical drive support DVD-RAM?
Most modern rw burners do.
Another 4 Core cpu from Intel!!! Way to go 12 years lates
why? there are so many use cases for 4 core. or even 2.
4 cores is a sweet spot for low power high performance/boost
@@homegeographic5351 6 cores 12 threads can run with less power now.
@@paulvancyber1979 the Ryzen?? offcourse . i love it.
there is a cheep Asus barebone small pc thats gonna be available anytime soon. ill get 2 of thoes and replace 2 intels.
4600u and 4500u
@@homegeographic5351 yes I mean, for a server like this, for example in mexico, the small business would buy it, but man. Really 4 cores in 2020??? at least we need it whit hyper threading, for the antivirus, the users, the active domain, damn, intel is giving the same
Just because you personally don't see a use for it doesn't mean there isn't. This would be quite a good low end server for SMB
Hello, This server, why would you use it?
Where did you find this for $339, at that price I’ll be very interested in getting it
We got it for $339 with a bit of coupon stacking three quarters ago. It has gone on sale without any other discounts needed for $349 several times now. I probably should have said $349 throughout.
Air flow and proprietary power and fan connectors are a real pain when trying to upgrade these, (based on the T20 &T30) To upgrade the cpu cooler you have to buy a 5 pin fan adaptor and a power supply motherboard connector to use a more powerful power supply say you wanted to use the motherboard in a case with more 3.5 drive support
The use case for these is less around upgrading and more using as-configured.
Understood, but entry level equipment are usually bought by price sensitive people, well at least for me when I bought my T20 , for a home server and it seems a waste to condemn it rather than upgrading and getting the most out of a perfectly good CPU and motherboard .
Dell has had that psu flipping to the side dock a long time on their desktops.
About the disk drive, I imagine like is the reason for many useless features no one really wants anymore and price drops, the answer is that it costs them so little to add the drive that they discounting the customer by a few dollars or cents would seem like a larger value drop than savings, and that changing costs money in rnd time.
Looks like they phoned it in. Compare to HPE microserver line, which actually has server features and accessable storage devices.
you can get an r710 or something for about $250 on ebay with about 24 cores and 32 gb ram. this thing only has 4 cores and a maximum of 64 gb, and on their website its $600+
You can just call dell tech support and order the carriers, even after warranty has expired
My hp microserver gen 8 has ILO4
hi isn't can install vmware esxi ???
Of course, you can install esxi on any pc you want.
7:42 :"The reason for this is because..... for whatever reason"
Hi Bro,
Can we install exsi 6.7 as bare metal OS on this server?
Of course. You can even install it on any pc you like.
That's silly no hdd caddys, the old dell's have them by default (this system seems lore like a workstation)
these Precision rebranded PowerEdge's have given me a bad taste in my (used) experience setting them up for clients..
A T30 has 4 HDD bays, and it had an M.2 slot from being based on a Precision Board, but Dell disabled it via bios updates (Major dick move imho). but it at least had 4 HDD bays which I consider the minimum to be useful (even if you use a mirror/raid1, what are you going to do when you want to migrate to bigger disks?)
this T40 seems like it continues the trend of slapping names onto boxes without any regard to actual use.
Does the M.2 slot on the DELL T40 server work?
We tried using the current T40 firmware and it did not work.
That's disappointing.
This case looks same as the recant new 10th gen i9 dell Alienware system (with a different outer plastic shell)
Just typical dell getting as much mileage from their cases as possible.
85 likes and no dislikes. Nice!
Power supply is very similar to the Alienware systems
Incorrect. If you were to actually look/check, instead of exaggerate, you will see that you CAN mount the HDs to the metal cages with screws on the bottom of the HD!
4 core server when we have 8 and 10 core consumer desktops...
Totally true, but this is also $349 when it is on sale.
And here in Australia this unit starts at AUD1,458.00 on the Dell Australia site. The "Down Under" tax at work again.
Yup, a real slap in the face to customers. It's cheaper to get them from the US individually! They obviously don't like to do business.
so, server without an iDRAC option, cool Dell, really cool.
I think it is a waste of paper to troll admins like that. 3:32
Unfortunatelly this is no server, no management at all, basically workstation with mismatched name. Edit: it actually has Intel AMT, so atleast it includes something...
Does anybody know if this uses the exact same motherboard as the workstation?
This server isn't made to be a pro server, I believe it's more for small business applications such as document or medical record management systems which need a common server.
I think it is actually the 3630 motherboard but there are some strange bits such as our M.2 slot not working which make me think there are some differences. You could use this as an inexpensive workstation without much issue.
PCI? Nah that modern shit I need a PC with some ISA slots!
It seems Xeon CPU makes that PC a server
That's all that makes that a 'server'.
I know what a PCI slot is and I don’t have any gray hair... I’m bald.
I know what a PCI Slot is and i'm only 19 Years old
Yes, my PC is old
oddly.. i bought one of these today partially because it had a PCI slot (for a genuine hardware parallel port card) and a serial port. We have old zund cutting machines that need a (real) parallel port for a software dongle and a serial port to drive the thing........ The things run linux, virtualising windows 98 and win2k (due to needing some seriously old software that works like a champ driving machines used all day 5 days a week for the last 22 years).... Yeah... get off my lawn Damn kids !
thats beeeest
Mock, mock, mock the little server.
Not gonna hold the headroom is killing me
Weird the motherboard has a name similar to oldskool ASUS
No idrac it’s not a servers it’s a workstation
Total deal breaker, how I'm in supposed to plug my awe 64 gold with no isa slots!
Rather buy refurb
It’s not a servers, just a pc with a Xeon cpu. To me a server has minimum dual Xeon dual psu, some kinda management system and raid ability.
My 2 cents 🤷🏻♂️
What about a single AMD EPYC 7702P server? Only one CPU in that configuration. You are right that this is pushing it from a traditional server aspect carrying the "PowerEdge" brand.
ServeTheHomeVideo but do you see the price point ? That’s along the line or server status. However still needs more integration features. I guess nowadays anything can be called a server 🤷🏻♂️
Definitely shares tooling with the alienware aurora.
Should not brand it under poweredge.
Dell EMC PowerEdge T40 = RTX 3080 = $ 699
No bmc... Goodbye.