These R710's are fairly popular on the used market here in the U.S., which surprises me since they are fairly comparable if not more than the IBM X3650 M3, which gives you a bit more value for money in terms of drive storage, PCI-E options, and, in my opinion, build quality. Thank you for showing us around this server, Morten, and I look forward to seeing what you manage to do with this one. All of those network adapter cards should come in handy!
3:46 That is actually a port for an external led. the led next to that port is less visible with a cable management arm installed, so the arms come with an LED that clips on to the arm and plugs into that port. there is another I button on the front panel, which makes all ID LEDs flash. the back button does the same thing. I assume it is so you can work on the same server if you go around the rack to the other side.
that little socket between the built in network adapter and the psu is for the remote lights you can get to move the little led to the end of the rack arm so you can still see it when you pull the server all the way out the button should be to make the lcd come on i think so you can push it and then walk round the front and figure out which one it is
Hi chewyfruitloop Thank You very much! ahh yes the blue LED on the cable management arm,, I forgot about that! Glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)
i live the rx10 line, have the 610 and 810 myself. the power plug is for a remote LED and the button flashes a blue led to help you identify the server in a populated rack.
Hi Tekmyster Thank You very much! ahh yes the blue LED on the cable management arm,, I forgot about that! Glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)
@3:55 it's a port for conecting LED light which you can attach to rails. You can start blinnking that led from frontside and use it to easly find which server are you looking from other side. Sometimes usefull when you have full rack of servers looking the same.
I have a 1U Dell Poweredge R610, it is very similar to the R710 and they share many components like the raid controller, SD Module and iDrac module. All dell servers come standard with an onboard management controller called "iDrac Express", the managment module at the back of your server is an optional extra called an "iDrac Enterprise" which has extra features like remote control. The front display is independent of the system and is connected directly to the iDrac and can displays messages about the servers health and other info such as the hostname, time, date, etc. The SD module at the front is an optional extra also. The extra connector on the raid controller is for a different backplane that has sas redundancy.
The front LCD will display alerts from the management board if there are any. Otherwise it will display the serial number or the name of the server if you program that in. We had one Dell server at work that was displaying something like "PCI Express fault, slot 2" for a while. The server was running normally so they opted not to do anything about it until they had some work scheduled on it.
The button next to the led at the back is a system ID button(I think there should be one at the front as well), when you press it an Id lights on the front of the server as well. Helps you avoid doing the right things to wrong server as I'm sure understand could up set the users. The Indicator panel on the front normally changes colour as well as indicating the fault in text(orange), for things like no PSU redundancy or failed fans/raid issues.
And finally there is a "system status indicator" which is a "connector for attaching a system indicator extension cable that is used on a cable management arm".
I got it with 12GB. But I just ordered 6x 4GB for 40€, so that's a great deal too! The only downside is, it isn't as fully packed as the one in the vid. No additional PCI cards and no iDRAC Enterprise. Anyways, I don't need these.
The button makes the light on the front flash, so you can work on the machine at the front or back, press that little button near the LED and the other side will be flashing when you get to the other side of the rack, I believe that power plug next to the LED is so you can have a light on the rack flashing at the same time of the server. Because the server flashes it's lights orange when there is something else, it will power up that port and make the light on a rack flash so the enigneer can quickly locate the server that is complaining.
The SD card above the iDrac port is for saving the iDrac configuration should you need to reset the card or replace the card. This way you will always have a backup of your settings.
Hi Morten, thanks for making this video. I'm thinking about buying another server to add to my current one, A HP ProLiant DL 160 G6 with dual X5670's, 48GB of RAM and an AMD FirePro V7900. I was thinking about a HP ProLiant DL 380 G6 or G7, have you anything bad to say about either of those models? Beyond HP's crap support for new servers lol.
Hi Joshua Nicoll Thank You very much! No dl380 G6 or G7 is fine servers, I would personally go for the Lenovo x3650 M3,, but I am a Lenovo fan boy. Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Morten, Thank you very much for the reply. I thought the DL380 G6 and G7's are good. They look very sexy. I am to HO what you are to Lenovo, the ProLiant was my first server, and a ProLiant was the first type of server I saw, so I love them for that. I plan to populate two 38U racks with them.
The best from that era. That is the first gen r710 though, perc6i 3Gb/s card, and there is a gen 2 which for example says II in roman numerals printed on the front tag, support for bigger cpu's, has perc7 6Gb/s cards, etc
The sd slot on the idrac controller is so you can remotely flash files to it through the remote command line. And that number 1 riser is really hard to get out, you were on the right track though, you pretty much have to pry out that plastic connector at the base, you can push the little blue piece that pokes through the card.
Few things. That power plug is actually a port for a LED cord. the button next to that is so you can press it, the blue light will start flashing, when you go around to the front the screen will be flashing, handy to find what sever you are working on in a stack of 20. Also the little button on the front with an "i" by it does the same thing for the rear LED. Hope this helps :D
you might be able to upgrade that raid controller to something newer easy like a perc h700 i think since that back plain supports the newer sas connections where as the perc 6i card only supports 2 tb drives maximum
I wish they would say which version of the 710 on the server like they did with the 2950. Only way I know of finding out is to check your Mb part number. I do prefer the 2.5 drives though as you can fit 8 into the server.
Thanks for the video, your videos inspired me to purchase a few old Dell servers. I have a Dell R710 and a R510. The R510 can be found with 12 3.5 hard drive bays which I am using for a FreeNAS machine and the R710 is running ESXi and pFsense in a VM.
The bootable sd card is 1gb oem. The Idrac sd card is 1 gb oem and they are the same part numbers. Are these connections capable of reading something modern and much larger than 1gb?
hmmm,,,,is there anyways to remove the dell label on it,so it can be replaced with a Nice Lenovo label ? as that would make me feel bit better using it.
I have the possibility to have 2 of those servers for home users with 96gb ram each. I plan to use with ESXI do you think it's better to put some hard drive inside the servers or use a nas as datastore? Please make a video of the installation also!! Good videos I always follow you!!
Hi Paolo Inselvini Thank You very much! do both,, boot from a USB or SD-card, and have a single SSD in each, and run iSCSI to your NAS. Thank you for watching! :-)
off topic, did you ever get a video card in the R710? I got a good deal on two units, one running my Plex server and Video and photo rendering, would love to get a GPU to help do some of the heavy lifting,
they also come in a 12x 3.5" config r730xd can come with 12 3.5 and 2 2.5 at the rear. i install heaps of them for cctv, over here in Australia. We run Milestone, also from Denmark.
I got the Dell R905 you gotta check that one out I got it when it was only 4years old for $150 on a ebay auction. Mine came with 128gb of ram 5x 10gb 4 port networkcards (got'em hooked to a 48 port cisco switch) , 4x 6 core opteron 8435, 5x SAS drives (i have in raid 5) , 2x 1200w powersupplys. 300w at idle I can't really figure out what to do with it. It runs esix , and 4 server instances of my favorite pc game ark.
Hi Morten I should buy a server, I already have a hp proliant dl160g6, I have seen some dell dell r710 version 2, among the dell r710 and a hp proliant dl180g6 which you advise me? thank you very much ( very nice channel).
Hi Gippo vv Thank You very much! well I am a big Lenovo fan boy,, so the Lenovo x3650 M3 it the one you really want,,, but the Dell r710 would be the better of those two :-) Thank you for watching! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse Thank you very much. If I'll buy it with xeon x5650 it should work with ESXI 6.7 even if not officially supported? thanks again and congratulations for your videos
should see about getting a nvidia gtx 1050 ti and try to use it in a server just as you did with the grid card... would that be better performance than the grid card that is 3/4 working
? I saw that their was room in this model server for A tall long GPU, My ? is does it come with the power lead for the video card so you can install A desktop gpu like A GTX 690 is what I what to put in one for VM , the one I have is 2 8 pin, is A possible, I wana know before I bu y one from ebay, Thank you Woren
Hi Joel Crocker I am not an expert on DELL,, But 2*8pin is a lot of power :-/ and Nvidia GTX cards,, does not work that well with VM-ware,,, You need to look into this a bit more before you go shopping. Thank you for watching! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse I ended up using A Fire Pro V5900 - that I saw that you had in one of your systems and it has 50 gigs ram :) now and about 10 gigs of space almost all full
Just FYI, the small board with the management network port and the vFlash SD card is just a breakout board for the connections, the iDRAC controller itself is that big Nuvoton chip under the PERC RAID controller. The small board is an option, without it the iDRAC would be accessible through one of the on-board NICs. In previous generation servers (like the PE 2950) the whole DRAC (no "i" here) controller was on a separate card and was entirely optional. Also, the Service Tag is a great thing. You can find out the exact hardware configuration of any Dell computer "ever sold". This is particularly useful when you need to find specs of Dell servers that have been re-branded and sold as a different product. *cough* *cough* APC... :)
I know you put in a lot of different hard drives in your servers and I had a question for you. 10tb hard drives are available at a reasonable price right now. In my lab setup could I put in a 10tb WD sata drive in my Dell R720XD . I checked the Dell site and they don't list answers like this and they support some very high end and costly drives. So what do you think, can I put in a 10tb sata drive in my server or do I need to put it in my Synology DS1815+ ?
Hi Jim Holloway Thank You very much! It's the Raid/HBA controller that can be old and only support up to 2TB,, so check that :-) But R720XD is rather new,, one should hope so. Thank you for watching! :-)
I love my R710. Can't believe yours actually came with an iDRAC 6 Enterprise card installed. I've bought 3 Dell servers and none of them had it. Although it was only $10 each to buy them off of eBay. Mine also doesn't have the SD card board in the front. I need to find one of those. But I'll probably just loading ESXi from a USB drive. Interestingly the Management software is stored in firmware not on the SD card in the iDRAC adapter.
@@MyPlayHouseI am. lol. Using a cheap Chinese x99 motherboard and a 14 core Xeon currently to host my "production" services. but the old Dell R710 is sitting right behind me. Waiting for me to decide whether to scrap it or find a reason to heat up the whole room, lol.
Hi Morten. I enjoyed the video. Maybe you can comment on why such a big piece of hardware only supports 4 drives. Seems like a lot of wasted potential, especially with that incredible power supply. Thanks for the presentation. I have learned a few things from it.
got one of these a few weeks ago and I love it. I have two 6 core x5650 and 18x8gb ram for a total of 144gb ram. also cut the pcie slot to install a Quadro for virtualization of graphics. also have 8x 300gb SAS drives in raid 0 for speed!
Used Dell servers for over 15 years, can't say I've ever had different components in the same model, unless I requested additional hardware. Never heard that about any of the top brands before. Especially surprising, considering Dell does a ton of work making servers for applicances, or flanker brands in other markets.
Ihave this :p its large form factor aka LFF and there is small form factor aka SLL for 2.5 inch. it can have 6 drives on 3.5 version, also they come on 520 watt and 870 watt psu.
Hi Hesham Omar Thank You very much! I will get to that,, but the next 14 days of video is done and I have not played with Dell,,,,yet. Thank you for watching! :-)
I finally got my Dell R720 but i have a problem. Im not able to select Windows Server 2016 in the Lifecycle Controller. So I'm actually not able to install Windos Server 2016 correctly. BIOS-Version: 2.7.0 Firmware-Version: 2.61.60.60 Thx for your help.
Hi Gandalf3 Thank You very much! I am sure that server will run server 2016 just fine,, when you find the magic trick :-/ I have no idea. Thank you for watching! :-)
These servers are quite reliable. We have one at work running Hyper-V hosting 4 or 5 VM's. I think it has the dual 6 core Xeon's 90 odd GB RAM and 8 x NL-SAS drives, RAID 10. Performs very well.
YAY R710! i have 3 of those now because of you. :D Be Sure to upgrade the firmwares specially the Idrac and lifecycle, or a few things are buggy like the front pannel buttons.
A bit sad now, bought my first ever rack server off eBay (sorry, not an 3650). Got it today but I didn't get what I ordered (I paid for a 6x3.5" one, but the one I got only had a 4x3.5" backplane and front). Now I wonder, exactly what tool do I need to remove the cover for the third bay seen in this picture? (Figuring I can buy an extra cable and new backplane to bring it up to speccs). www.tifozi.net/img/screws.jpg
Not to bad, the 6x backplane can be had for like 200:- and not sure what the extra cable might go for. I just wonder how to get the cover off the HD bay as it seems to use some special screw.
Hi The great one ram Here they say 57.54 lbs www.cnet.com/products/dell-poweredge-r710-xeon-e5640-2-66-ghz-monitor-none-series/specs/ Thank you for watching! :-)
Well you personally have one so what is weight of that one that u have,also what is dimensions of 2 u server in height width and length, the thing is im from india and want to buy a server from us and im calculating estimated cost of shipping. thanks for replying.
Bruno Cardoso at idle between 100 to 200w with no noise, And loaded, anywhere up to the max power supply unit and now you will definitely hear the fans.
Hi Thomas Andersson It's about the same generation as the x3650 M3,, the same gen processors and RAM an all that. I have 5 x3650 M3 and one r710,, in on the shelve... :-) Thank you for watching! :-)
Wow! Lucky! Wish I could find some people throwing Dell R710s away like that. I only have one for now and am trying to find a cheap one on ebay. Good find indeed!
I watched your video and from an image on my ebay auction "I won I noticed it didn't come with the flash module so I ordered one on ebay while it was super cheap with the cable. Only 20$ Just 3 left then the price doubles to 40$
The Internal SD Module for SD Card is a optional. The part buy here: www.serverhome.nl/internal-sd-module-for-sd-card-voor-bijv-vmware-esxi-sd-card-not-included-6350.html
Nice I have 1 of these, then an R610 and an R410! Kinda wish I went with HP servers because of the loudness of the Dell servers... HP Servers are dead silent.
The 710 is is pretty nice, but I just cant get away from the 610, seems to be the quietest most efficient one out of the older more affordable servers :)! My R610 completely inspired by you currently has 12 cores 24 threads and an Rx 280X GPU. It games like a $2000 PC and cost me £400 :D! Hope your well Morten!
the ram is in a weird config; normally all the white ram slot need to be filled before putting ram in the black slots. this config is only using 2 of the 3 ram channels of each cpu. see this link; www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/server-pedge-installing-upgrading-memory-11g.pdf
You got the Dell Poweredge R710 Version 1. I bought an R710 for 67$ on ebay. It has 8 2.5" hd slots but 2 areas on the left which appear to allow for 8 more drives. It's not populated like yours. I wonder if it can handle 16 drives?But in today's standards even compared to the Dell R620 I bought, the r710 is total trash. Lucky I got it for $67 shipped
I do like the slide out power supplys of servers, imagine home pc's having that, no hassle psu swap when it goes pop :-). Give that dell a good testing, see if its as nice to use as the ibm ones :-D
+MyPlayHouse That is an SFF-8484 connector www.servethehome.com/sas-sata-cables-guide-sff8087-8088-8470-8482-8484-single-device-connectors/ - The SD card for the iDRAC stores it's software (and configuration?)
Hi MojangYang YAN0014 They are still good,, but if you can get your hands on a server with an Intel E5-2600 instead,, like Lenovo x3650 M4 or Dell R720,, better Thank you for watching! :-)
Nice Network cards, good and helpful info on your videos too, but maan im geeky enough to notice network cards i use one of those in my diy server i have built in a past few years its driving my whole network including routing i really love those cards, i would love to have some of them as my spare part xD but i wont bother you anymore about them, Regards from Slovenia :)
How about you dont use the same music in every video? Hearing always the same music in the background is a little annoying... But other than that, nice videos :)
Morton you have turned to the Dark Side....... Dell now EH! I have a data center full of Dell Rack servers here @ work. one word "solid" I have an old Power Edge tower from early 2000's still running. There built like a tank.
HI Kylle812 My channel is English, and to make sure as many as possible, can enjoy the comments they are also English. So please keep to English. Thank you for watching! :-)
I have a really old Dell server that has a P4 CPU which was as much as a car. I was never a fan of Dell's home computers. They were never very good to upgrade or to work on.
Btw, the service tag on every Dell machine, (laptop, desktop, server) holds the information what specs the machine shipped with.
These R710's are fairly popular on the used market here in the U.S., which surprises me since they are fairly comparable if not more than the IBM X3650 M3, which gives you a bit more value for money in terms of drive storage, PCI-E options, and, in my opinion, build quality. Thank you for showing us around this server, Morten, and I look forward to seeing what you manage to do with this one. All of those network adapter cards should come in handy!
at 3:55 that port is used to power the cable management system. The cable management LED will be blue of red depending on the server condition.
3:46 That is actually a port for an external led. the led next to that port is less visible with a cable management arm installed, so the arms come with an LED that clips on to the arm and plugs into that port. there is another I button on the front panel, which makes all ID LEDs flash. the back button does the same thing. I assume it is so you can work on the same server if you go around the rack to the other side.
that little socket between the built in network adapter and the psu is for the remote lights you can get to move the little led to the end of the rack arm so you can still see it when you pull the server all the way out
the button should be to make the lcd come on i think so you can push it and then walk round the front and figure out which one it is
Hi chewyfruitloop
Thank You very much! ahh yes the blue LED on the cable management arm,, I forgot about that! Glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
i live the rx10 line, have the 610 and 810 myself.
the power plug is for a remote LED and the button flashes a blue led to help you identify the server in a populated rack.
Hi Tekmyster
Thank You very much! ahh yes the blue LED on the cable management arm,, I forgot about that! Glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
@3:55 it's a port for conecting LED light which you can attach to rails. You can start blinnking that led from frontside and use it to easly find which server are you looking from other side. Sometimes usefull when you have full rack of servers looking the same.
Hi Mirek Wojtylak
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Whoa! I've waited whole video to see when you start this jet :) Looks like we need next video :) Greetings!
Hi gryg777
Thank You very much! It's a Dell server,, do you think it will run?
Thank you for watching! :-)
I have a 1U Dell Poweredge R610, it is very similar to the R710 and they share many components like the raid controller, SD Module and iDrac module. All dell servers come standard with an onboard management controller called "iDrac Express", the managment module at the back of your server is an optional extra called an "iDrac Enterprise" which has extra features like remote control. The front display is independent of the system and is connected directly to the iDrac and can displays messages about the servers health and other info such as the hostname, time, date, etc. The SD module at the front is an optional extra also. The extra connector on the raid controller is for a different backplane that has sas redundancy.
Hi Joshua Fawcett
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
The front LCD will display alerts from the management board if there are any. Otherwise it will display the serial number or the name of the server if you program that in. We had one Dell server at work that was displaying something like "PCI Express fault, slot 2" for a while. The server was running normally so they opted not to do anything about it until they had some work scheduled on it.
The button next to the led at the back is a system ID button(I think there should be one at the front as well), when you press it an Id lights on the front of the server as well. Helps you avoid doing the right things to wrong server as I'm sure understand could up set the users. The Indicator panel on the front normally changes colour as well as indicating the fault in text(orange), for things like no PSU redundancy or failed fans/raid issues.
And finally there is a "system status indicator" which is a "connector for attaching a system indicator extension cable that is used on a cable management arm".
The blue release button is on the bottom of Riser 1.:) I think it pulls out rather than presses in. I saw the icon for it on the cover.
I just bought one for 120€ and then you release this vid! So cool
I got it with 12GB. But I just ordered 6x 4GB for 40€, so that's a great deal too! The only downside is, it isn't as fully packed as the one in the vid. No additional PCI cards and no iDRAC Enterprise. Anyways, I don't need these.
The button makes the light on the front flash, so you can work on the machine at the front or back, press that little button near the LED and the other side will be flashing when you get to the other side of the rack, I believe that power plug next to the LED is so you can have a light on the rack flashing at the same time of the server. Because the server flashes it's lights orange when there is something else, it will power up that port and make the light on a rack flash so the enigneer can quickly locate the server that is complaining.
The SD card above the iDrac port is for saving the iDrac configuration should you need to reset the card or replace the card. This way you will always have a backup of your settings.
+Sean Lucas okay thanx for the info! :-)
Hi Morten, thanks for making this video.
I'm thinking about buying another server to add to my current one, A HP ProLiant DL 160 G6 with dual X5670's, 48GB of RAM and an AMD FirePro V7900. I was thinking about a HP ProLiant DL 380 G6 or G7, have you anything bad to say about either of those models? Beyond HP's crap support for new servers lol.
Hi Joshua Nicoll
Thank You very much! No dl380 G6 or G7 is fine servers, I would personally go for the Lenovo x3650 M3,, but I am a Lenovo fan boy.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Morten, Thank you very much for the reply.
I thought the DL380 G6 and G7's are good. They look very sexy. I am to HO what you are to Lenovo, the ProLiant was my first server, and a ProLiant was the first type of server I saw, so I love them for that. I plan to populate two 38U racks with them.
The best from that era. That is the first gen r710 though, perc6i 3Gb/s card, and there is a gen 2 which for example says II in roman numerals printed on the front tag, support for bigger cpu's, has perc7 6Gb/s cards, etc
Hi Ulises Minotto
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
The sd slot on the idrac controller is so you can remotely flash files to it through the remote command line. And that number 1 riser is really hard to get out, you were on the right track though, you pretty much have to pry out that plastic connector at the base, you can push the little blue piece that pokes through the card.
Hi Kevin Clinthorne
Thank You very much!
Thank you for watching! :-)
Few things. That power plug is actually a port for a LED cord. the button next to that is so you can press it, the blue light will start flashing, when you go around to the front the screen will be flashing, handy to find what sever you are working on in a stack of 20. Also the little button on the front with an "i" by it does the same thing for the rear LED. Hope this helps :D
Hi Daini Peagram
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
you might be able to upgrade that raid controller to something newer easy like a perc h700 i think since that back plain supports the newer sas connections where as the perc 6i card only supports 2 tb drives maximum
Here's a 2024 view to your video Morten!! I'm about to pick up one of these to use for storage and I knew just the place to learn about it!! 😁
I do still have mine.. :-)
I wish they would say which version of the 710 on the server like they did with the 2950. Only way I know of finding out is to check your Mb part number. I do prefer the 2.5 drives though as you can fit 8 into the server.
Very nice server!! Hope to see it in your datacenter soon!!
Thanks for the video, your videos inspired me to purchase a few old Dell servers. I have a Dell R710 and a R510. The R510 can be found with 12 3.5 hard drive bays which I am using for a FreeNAS machine and the R710 is running ESXi and pFsense in a VM.
Hi Adam Rosas
Thank You very much! I am a Lenovo fan boy,, how did this happen :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
in the model you have the spot for the 4th and 5th 3.5" drive bays is usually occupied by some type of a tape drive backup.
The bootable sd card is 1gb oem. The Idrac sd card is 1 gb oem and they are the same part numbers. Are these connections capable of reading something modern and much larger than 1gb?
Some one else would have to answer that.. I do not know.
Its the iLO software that are on the card above the management port.
hmmm,,,,is there anyways to remove the dell label on it,so it can be replaced with a Nice Lenovo label ? as that would make me feel bit better using it.
Hi bRfc9QgjclrMlc
Yo would have to come up with that solution :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
I have the possibility to have 2 of those servers for home users with 96gb ram each. I plan to use with ESXI do you think it's better to put some hard drive inside the servers or use a nas as datastore? Please make a video of the installation also!! Good videos I always follow you!!
Hi Paolo Inselvini
Thank You very much! do both,, boot from a USB or SD-card, and have a single SSD in each, and run iSCSI to your NAS.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Why SSD on the R710? To run virtual machines fast? I have already SD card module on the Dell so I will plan to run ESXi from this device
Paolo Inselvini Yes fast disk access.
off topic, did you ever get a video card in the R710? I got a good deal on two units, one running my Plex server and Video and photo rendering, would love to get a GPU to help do some of the heavy lifting,
they also come in a 12x 3.5" config
r730xd can come with 12 3.5 and 2 2.5 at the rear.
i install heaps of them for cctv, over here in Australia.
We run Milestone, also from Denmark.
Hi Wilbert The Swordsman
Thank You very much! I did not even know that milestone is Danish, glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
I love my R620 :)
Currently running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter with the Hyper-V role, it runs beautifully (and quiet).
What room did you put your R620 in to be quiet? Mine is quite loud but I have it in my bedroom
I got the Dell R905 you gotta check that one out I got it when it was only 4years old for $150 on a ebay auction. Mine came with 128gb of ram 5x 10gb 4 port networkcards (got'em hooked to a 48 port cisco switch) , 4x 6 core opteron 8435, 5x SAS drives (i have in raid 5) , 2x 1200w powersupplys. 300w at idle I can't really figure out what to do with it. It runs esix , and 4 server instances of my favorite pc game ark.
It also has the DRAC 5 card
Hi zach konkel
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Morten I should buy a server, I already have a hp proliant dl160g6, I have seen some dell dell r710 version 2, among the dell r710 and a hp proliant dl180g6 which you advise me? thank you very much ( very nice channel).
Hi Gippo vv
Thank You very much! well I am a big Lenovo fan boy,, so the Lenovo x3650 M3 it the one you really want,,, but the Dell r710 would be the better of those two :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse Thank you very much. If I'll buy it with xeon x5650 it should work with ESXI 6.7 even if not officially supported? thanks again and congratulations for your videos
System ID button is on the front, little button above the “i”
Hi Richard Russell
Sorry,, to long ago,,, what are we talking about ?
Thank you for watching! :-)
My PlayHouse 🤣🤣 you were looking for the system ID button on the front of the server.
should see about getting a nvidia gtx 1050 ti and try to use it in a server just as you did with the grid card... would that be better performance than the grid card that is 3/4 working
? I saw that their was room in this model server for A tall long GPU, My ? is does it come with the power lead for the video card so you can install A desktop gpu like A GTX 690 is what I what to put in one for VM , the one I have is 2 8 pin, is A possible, I wana know before I bu y one from ebay, Thank you Woren
Hi Joel Crocker
I am not an expert on DELL,, But 2*8pin is a lot of power :-/ and Nvidia GTX cards,, does not work that well with VM-ware,,, You need to look into this a bit more before you go shopping.
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@@MyPlayHouse I ended up using A Fire Pro V5900 - that I saw that you had in one of your systems and it has 50 gigs ram :) now and about 10 gigs of space almost all full
Nice review of the Dell, I have a R710 on the way to me, 2*L5640 48GB, can't wait to get ESXI up on it ;-)
Just FYI, the small board with the management network port and the vFlash SD card is just a breakout board for the connections, the iDRAC controller itself is that big Nuvoton chip under the PERC RAID controller. The small board is an option, without it the iDRAC would be accessible through one of the on-board NICs. In previous generation servers (like the PE 2950) the whole DRAC (no "i" here) controller was on a separate card and was entirely optional. Also, the Service Tag is a great thing. You can find out the exact hardware configuration of any Dell computer "ever sold". This is particularly useful when you need to find specs of Dell servers that have been re-branded and sold as a different product. *cough* *cough* APC... :)
Hi FakirCB
Thank You very much!
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What do you plan to do with this server since you are mainly into IBM servers
Unkyjoe loves those servers. Can u show us how much noise this server makes?
What processors are in your R710?
Hi Tristan Wiechert
Maybe,,, two Intel Xeon E5530's I think.
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I know you put in a lot of different hard drives in your servers and I had a question for you. 10tb hard drives are available at a reasonable price right now. In my lab setup could I put in a 10tb WD sata drive in my Dell R720XD . I checked the Dell site and they don't list answers like this and they support some very high end and costly drives. So what do you think, can I put in a 10tb sata drive in my server or do I need to put it in my Synology DS1815+ ?
Hi Jim Holloway
Thank You very much! It's the Raid/HBA controller that can be old and only support up to 2TB,, so check that :-) But R720XD is rather new,, one should hope so.
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Another awesome video, good job! What are you gonna use this R710 for?
Hi RickBakkr
probably not much!
Thank you for watching! :-)
One of the places I work has an R720, with an 8x 3.5" SAS drive backplane.
I love my R710. Can't believe yours actually came with an iDRAC 6 Enterprise card installed. I've bought 3 Dell servers and none of them had it. Although it was only $10 each to buy them off of eBay. Mine also doesn't have the SD card board in the front. I need to find one of those. But I'll probably just loading ESXi from a USB drive. Interestingly the Management software is stored in firmware not on the SD card in the iDRAC adapter.
You are probably on something else by now :-)
@@MyPlayHouseI am. lol. Using a cheap Chinese x99 motherboard and a 14 core Xeon currently to host my "production" services. but the old Dell R710 is sitting right behind me. Waiting for me to decide whether to scrap it or find a reason to heat up the whole room, lol.
Hi Morten. I enjoyed the video. Maybe you can comment on why such a big piece of hardware only supports 4 drives. Seems like a lot of wasted potential, especially with that incredible power supply.
Thanks for the presentation. I have learned a few things from it.
Hi BillyLapTop
Thank You very much! ya 870W is quit a lot ? :-/
Thank you for watching! :-)
got one of these a few weeks ago and I love it. I have two 6 core x5650 and 18x8gb ram for a total of 144gb ram. also cut the pcie slot to install a Quadro for virtualization of graphics. also have 8x 300gb SAS drives in raid 0 for speed!
Hi Logan .Kes
Nice! Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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Used Dell servers for over 15 years, can't say I've ever had different components in the same model, unless I requested additional hardware. Never heard that about any of the top brands before. Especially surprising, considering Dell does a ton of work making servers for applicances, or flanker brands in other markets.
Ihave this :p its large form factor aka LFF and there is small form factor aka SLL for 2.5 inch. it can have 6 drives on 3.5 version, also they come on 520 watt and 870 watt psu.
So when are you going to install ESXi 6 on it and compare it to the x3650 M3 ? :)
Waiting For playing with R710, update firmware, idrac
Thanks
Hi Hesham Omar
Thank You very much! I will get to that,, but the next 14 days of video is done and I have not played with Dell,,,,yet.
Thank you for watching! :-)
I finally got my Dell R720 but i have a problem.
Im not able to select Windows Server 2016 in the Lifecycle Controller.
So I'm actually not able to install Windos Server 2016 correctly.
BIOS-Version: 2.7.0
Firmware-Version: 2.61.60.60
Thx for your help.
Hi Gandalf3
Thank You very much! I am sure that server will run server 2016 just fine,, when you find the magic trick :-/ I have no idea.
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@@MyPlayHouse Thx for the answer.
After many hours of trying to get it running with that i did just try it without again and it did work.
These servers are quite reliable. We have one at work running Hyper-V hosting 4 or 5 VM's. I think it has the dual 6 core Xeon's 90 odd GB RAM and 8 x NL-SAS drives, RAID 10. Performs very well.
Hi Alex Smith
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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Hi Morten. Do any of the systems you work on have Hyper-V, or are they mostly all VMWare?
can you install windows 10 Pro or Enterprise instead of Server?
Hi Jason Sarrio
Yes,, but only 2 CPU's,, some servers has more.. then you need a Server OS.
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My PlayHouse thanks you
TH-cam is messing up, and climes that I have not replied to this,, sorry for the "disturbance in the force" :-/
YAY R710! i have 3 of those now because of you. :D
Be Sure to upgrade the firmwares specially the Idrac and lifecycle, or a few things are buggy like the front pannel buttons.
Hi Gil ARAÚJO
Ha HA, NO Dell servers, you got your self in to that trouble :-)
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That button is called UID - it's for identify server in the rack
have you considered offering hosting to your subscribers?
Hi swedisch elite hacker system!!!!!!
Yes, I want to do that,, but there is a lot of security concerns.
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A bit sad now, bought my first ever rack server off eBay (sorry, not an 3650). Got it today but I didn't get what I ordered (I paid for a 6x3.5" one, but the one I got only had a 4x3.5" backplane and front).
Now I wonder, exactly what tool do I need to remove the cover for the third bay seen in this picture? (Figuring I can buy an extra cable and new backplane to bring it up to speccs).
www.tifozi.net/img/screws.jpg
Hi Thomas Andersson
Must be the same as I got then... can be expensive to get parts..
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Not to bad, the 6x backplane can be had for like 200:- and not sure what the extra cable might go for. I just wonder how to get the cover off the HD bay as it seems to use some special screw.
What is the average weight of that whole thing
Hi The great one ram
Here they say 57.54 lbs
www.cnet.com/products/dell-poweredge-r710-xeon-e5640-2-66-ghz-monitor-none-series/specs/
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Well you personally have one so what is weight of that one that u have,also what is dimensions of 2 u server in height width and length, the thing is im from india and want to buy a server from us and im calculating estimated cost of shipping. thanks for replying.
Welcome to the Dell club :)
most of my servers are HP, and over half my laptop too...
hp really sucks lately, no "free" updates for bios or anything. "smart" hdd tray's that cost 2-3x as much, or "NON HP APPROVED RAM" bs!
Hi Unkyjoe's Playhouse
Thank You very much! but just looking,,just looking :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Lately?
I've been running into this since the G5 series :'(
hp horrible products they make shitty hardware
how much power and noise does it use/make?
Great overview, thanks for the video :-)
Bruno Cardoso at idle between 100 to 200w with no noise, And loaded, anywhere up to the max power supply unit and now you will definitely hear the fans.
I know you're a bit biased, but how would you say the R710 compares to an IBM x3650 M3?
Hi Thomas Andersson
It's about the same generation as the x3650 M3,, the same gen processors and RAM an all that. I have 5 x3650 M3 and one r710,, in on the shelve... :-)
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At home I have a R715, but no one talks About it.... Always About the R710 or R720...
Wy is that, does the R715 have something not or what....???
AMD....
ok, i understand now, lol
do you buy the servers new or used an if you buy them used what kind of "place" do you buy them?
jakob johansson he Buys the servers probably used and he gets it from Amazon
jakob johansson eBay is a great place for them too. /r/homelab is a good place to start.
Hi jakob johansson
This one I saved from the trash can.
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Wow! Lucky! Wish I could find some people throwing Dell R710s away like that. I only have one for now and am trying to find a cheap one on ebay. Good find indeed!
I watched your video and from an image on my ebay auction "I won I noticed it didn't come with the flash module so I ordered one on ebay while it was super cheap with the cable. Only 20$ Just 3 left then the price doubles to 40$
That is a good prices..
The Internal SD Module for SD Card is a optional. The part buy here: www.serverhome.nl/internal-sd-module-for-sd-card-voor-bijv-vmware-esxi-sd-card-not-included-6350.html
Hi CoBo
Thank You very much! uhh expensive!
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serverhome denkt goud te hebben joh.
better try eBay.
got mine for the R310 +- $10 $15 incl shipping
Hi Dennis Wieringa,
Ebay in not cheaper. Ebay runoff 55 euro. See link www.ebay.nl/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=0RN354&_sacat=0
Nice I have 1 of these, then an R610 and an R410! Kinda wish I went with HP servers because of the loudness of the Dell servers... HP Servers are dead silent.
They are loud because they are 1U... the 2U r710 etc, power consumption, noise are very low.
What happened a Dell server? Nice.
Hi Christoph Esch
just looking just looking!
Thank you for watching! :-)
The 710 is is pretty nice, but I just cant get away from the 610, seems to be the quietest most efficient one out of the older more affordable servers :)!
My R610 completely inspired by you currently has 12 cores 24 threads and an Rx 280X GPU. It games like a $2000 PC and cost me £400 :D!
Hope your well Morten!
Hi Prox 32
Thank You very much! glad you liked the videos :-)
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Prox 32 how did you manage to power the graphic card? Did you use another power supply?
I like Dell computers, they are well made machines and that is why my Workstation is a Dell and my laptop is a Dell.
Hi Hunter's Moon
Thank You very much! I like Lenovo,, :-)
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are they use e7 v4 yet?
i installed a quadro p2000 to use as a plex server.
That is a powerful Plex server :-)
the ram is in a weird config; normally all the white ram slot need to be filled before putting ram in the black slots. this config is only using 2 of the 3 ram channels of each cpu. see this link;
www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/server-pedge-installing-upgrading-memory-11g.pdf
Hi dedb25
Thank You very much! I did not look at that at all!
Thank you for watching! :-)
You got the Dell Poweredge R710 Version 1. I bought an R710 for 67$ on ebay. It has 8 2.5" hd slots but 2 areas on the left which appear to allow for 8 more drives. It's not populated like yours. I wonder if it can handle 16 drives?But in today's standards even compared to the Dell R620 I bought, the r710 is total trash. Lucky I got it for $67 shipped
Sorry I do not know.
I do like the slide out power supplys of servers, imagine home pc's having that, no hassle psu swap when it goes pop :-).
Give that dell a good testing, see if its as nice to use as the ibm ones :-D
Hi zx8401ztv
Thank You very much! I have been into IBM/Lenovo System X for 10 years,, it would not be a fair test.
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It exists! :D
www.anandtech.com/show/10352/fsp-announces-twins-500w-700w-atx-psu-with-redundancy-capability
+MyPlayHouse That is an SFF-8484 connector www.servethehome.com/sas-sata-cables-guide-sff8087-8088-8470-8482-8484-single-device-connectors/ - The SD card for the iDRAC stores it's software (and configuration?)
where do you get all the servers from?
Hi Ahrix Gameinger
Old ones,, I save from the trach,, newer ones,, I have to buy.
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Hi again! Are those still good in 2019?
Hi MojangYang YAN0014
They are still good,, but if you can get your hands on a server with an Intel E5-2600 instead,, like Lenovo x3650 M4 or Dell R720,, better
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Thanks a lot!
The Button Is on the Front with the I
okat ??
Thank you for your review.. x10 are in my interest.
I have always loved Dell`s harddrive encloser! It look so good :)
Nice Network cards, good and helpful info on your videos too, but maan im geeky enough to notice network cards i use one of those in my diy server i have built in a past few years its driving my whole network including routing i really love those cards, i would love to have some of them as my spare part xD but i wont bother you anymore about them, Regards from Slovenia :)
For sale? :D
5:15 poor camera :P
Do you know if you can Fan mod the R710?
+2H2K
No,,, I do not know:-/
Okay thank you :)
How about you dont use the same music in every video? Hearing always the same music in the background is a little annoying... But other than that, nice videos :)
I love that music ;) !!!!
NO YOU DONT. EVERY VIDEO HAS THE SAME SONG IM GOING INSANE
Fred Jones #besttrackever
The music doesn't bother me. I'm not here for the music anyway.
You must be new here as us regulars don't hear any music :D if he changes it we'll be distracted :D
MY PRECIOUS
I want one of them :))
Morton you have turned to the Dark Side....... Dell now EH! I have a data center full of Dell Rack servers here @ work. one word "solid" I have an old Power Edge tower from early 2000's still running. There built like a tank.
Hi Chris Lowe
just looking just looking!
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Jeg har 2 af dem.... med 2x6 core cpu´er i hver og 96 gb ram i begge. :)
HI Kylle812
My channel is English, and to make sure as many as possible, can enjoy the comments they are also English.
So please keep to English.
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I have a really old Dell server that has a P4 CPU which was as much as a car. I was never a fan of Dell's home computers. They were never very good to upgrade or to work on.
Great Video....tks
Thank you,, You do really watch a lot of videos :-)
Yes I do...Greetings
Well, it's a Dell.
That all to it i guess. No reply needed.
Hi Henk Kok
Yes this is a Dell 2U server,, moving on to setting up raid on a Lenovo :-)
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OK Nice .. Form Thailand
Hi วรเมธ บุญสนิท
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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This guy is funny. look at this part 16:46
Who the hell came up with this crap.
Hi BurdendMist654
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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yea wow you really read all the comments keep up the good vidoes
Ty
Hi Lifted Seven
This does not compute ??
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