Upgrading the Dell PowerEdge R710

In this video, I upgrade the new R710. I throw a dual 8Gb Fiber Channel card, 256GB PCIe SSD, and a 16GB Flash Drive into the system to use as a testing platform.
I've gotten a lot of questions regarding how I made the drive labels/stickers. I used Avery 8160 address labels, and aligned the images using templates from Avery's website, they should be available for MS Word, Apple Pages, and other services. This process can be applied to any Avery label and template, it's probably more efficient to use bigger labels actually. I made the sticker graphics in GIMP, then pasted the PNG onto the label template, then printed them with a normal inkjet printer.
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[@Bjotte]

Depending on how you wish to configure the storage I would recommend getting a Dell H200 or a Dell H700 SAS card. the H200 for a HBA if you go for a ZFS storage setup or H700 for HW RAID. If you go for proxmox I would go for a H200 and ZFS. the upside of choosing a H200 or a H700 is that you can use larger drives than 2TB.
Also while it have no effect on anything what you label the drives as, the drives are SATA 3 not SATA 2.

[@dainipeagram4837]

Also, if you are not using the optical drive, you can get a 2.5 drive tray for it and boot off a 2,5 ssd for running proxmox or similar.
This is handy for freeing up all drives for a bigger raid

[@scewing123]

Except that it plugs in to a SATA 2 controller so it would be a huge waste of an SSD.

[@FrostGamingHype]

I usually would like to run VMware Esxi rather than proxmox on a server like the r710

[@WayneBarroncffcs]

For those who are watching this.
Laptop drives in a server are not good practice.
eBay server grade 2.5 hard drive.
They are typically cheap and his volume drives.
A laptop drive is not designed for running on a server.

[@kurtdebergh3070]

How did you make your labels for the hard drives?

[@urmastertech]

How did you print the labels? Just with a normal printer and label sheet?

[@AdamMessmann]

I used Avery 8160 labels, and you can find templates for Pages/MS Word on Avery's website, I made them in GIMP then put the PNG on the labels, and printed them with a normal printer.

[@jerzysobski8329]

Where did you find the template for the caddy labels? Can you send me a link to the template? Thanks

[@AdamMessmann]

For the address labels that I cut up? I went to Avery's site and downloaded them, mine were like Avery 8160's or something.

[@jerzysobski8329]

@@AdamMessmann Thanks. I was actually referring to the shape of the label the shape and size of the area that would fit into the label space on caddy. I ended up discovering a website that had a Caddy Label maker.

[@jerzysobski8329]

homelablabelmaker.shurilla14.com/

[@AdamMessmann]

@@jerzysobski8329 Oh wow, that's cool that someone made a template creator thing - thanks for linking it!

[@jj-icejoe6642]

CaddyLabelMaker on a docker

[@tamracockings7701]

Can this server run with a WiFi card

[@deViant14]

I just got a T310 and put proxmox and pfsense on it and was going to use an ax card with a powerful antenna to bring wifi into this part of the house but I found pfsense doesn't really support wifi cards so that was disappointing. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I have an ac router that can be a wired or wireless repeater, access point, and all that to do the wifi jump but it's ac and with worse antennas so that basically sucks.

[@hariranormal5584]

Intel(R) Xeon(TM)

[@hariranormal5584]

@Kingsley Weston
Such a scam lol