Getting started with my new Homelab Servers - Pt5 The little Dell R320 gets PERC up and new CPU

Part 5 of.....who knows, The Dell R320 - Its upgrade time while I recovered from COVID so excuse my lack of voice, replacing the PERC RAID controller for one that can deal with RAID5 and a 10 core CPU to cope with running some game servers
If your a Minecraft player this server is also now hosting a Hardcore Minecraft server, feel free to join in with your 1 life on minecraft.jimtheitguy.com
If you join me on twitch this server is now hosting our GMod PropHunters Server along with a few others
Power used by this server - Updated with new CPU
Off - 8W
OS Idle - 70W
OS Full Load - 162W
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
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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[@skulbite]

I love your multiple RAID controller buying story. Love the speed increase.

[@skulbite]

Seriously banged up serial port.

[@JimtheITguy]

Sadly it arrived like that, the next lot have bent mounting wings, people don't treat the with care

[@plexnbrown760]

I totally done that before, rebought stuff I forgot I bought

[@marioemmanuel8435]

Thanks for the videos.
Could you please recommend what shall you pay attention to when buying a thermal compound when upgrading the CPU? There are too many options.

[@JasonsLabVideos]

Sweet, Looks like lots of us are doing home labs these days :) Nice parts selection !

[@JimtheITguy]

Need a H710 for anything, i have a spare...or 2 :-D

[@JasonsLabVideos]

@@JimtheITguy I actually just bought a Supermicro Dual Node unit. Now about to build a storage unit for it !

[@JimtheITguy]

@@JasonsLabVideos Oooh nice, i have some Supermicro 1u GPU servers im trying to think of a use for

[@JasonsLabVideos]

@@JimtheITguy Funny, my Supermicro Server came from the UK too ! The storage unit i'm still hunting around for right now..

[@ismailkrdemir4091]

Awesome video content thank you i have dell r320 with xeon 2470 v2 too. just need to get h710p and samsung ssds will use it for game servers and some other stuff :D.

[@electronicks]

Hey this seemed exhausting for you since you're still recovering. You can probably do a voiceover after recording instead of speaking and also moving around, next time. Take care and I hope you recover soon!

[@JimtheITguy]

Pretty much fully recovered now thankfully as did this a few weeks ago, I really don't reccomened it though, exhausting even for someone fairly healthy

[@sunnylm2045]

Hey Jim, i watch again and just curious about the speed of the 2.5" SSD isn't that the max is 560MB/s ? so how can you get it up to over 2000MB/s?

[@sunnylm2045]

Great video Jim, do you still using this server for games, i just got mine today waiting on delivery

[@revadan]

how much power does it consumes? wph

[@sunnylm2045]

Hey Jim, wondering about the CPU temperature on the iDrac is that accurate? it start off with around 40C then go up to 60-70C only running on Esxi8 with 2 VMs server 2022, i have the HP DL360 Gen9 running 4 nested esxi8 and CPU temperature only around 40C-45C

[@JimtheITguy]

What power profile are you running? Make sure it's os managed, also check fans arnt clogged and thermal compound is good

[@sunnylm2045]

​@JimtheITguy no idea it just freshly installed esxi 8 evaluation and then installed nested esxi and another window sever 2022 180 days evaluation. I did tried installed just one window server 2022 directly before and temperature was the same 60c+, I will check with the thermal paste, just wondering if your similar or lower?

[@sunnylm2045]

Just received my server, couldn't install esxi 8 with perc h310, someone told me it work with perc 710, have you try esxi 8 on this server?

[@JimtheITguy]

ESXi 8 isn't supported on this server and you will get the CPU unsupported warning, not sure if a 710 perc would work either

[@sunnylm2045]

@@JimtheITguy i just upgraded to PERC H710 and it's work like a charm, it's great for home lab :)