Finally building out my new Dell PowerEdge R730xd 1 year later
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2024
- Finally getting around to committing to the build. I've only had the parts for a year now. Hopefully I will enjoy the benefits of this system. Still need to figure out what I am doing with the 4TB NVMe drives. I kinda regret buying them and wish I had U.2 instead. Luckily got everything tested and good to go for the next stage. Moving the drives from my R720 over and getting ESXi setup again. The CPUs and memory are a little anemic but should still be overkill for how I use my server. Excited for 10Gb networking and more space in my NAS. Having my primary storage on 12TB of NVMe will be pretty wild. Specs:
Dual Xeon E5-2643 v3 3.4GHz six core CPUs
128GB DDR4 memory
Tesla M40 GPU
X540 10Gb network card module
Perc H730p RAID controller
Dual 1100W power supplies
NVMe M.2 bifurcation card
Dual 180GB Intel SSDs
In the works still:
4x 4TB Crucial P3 drives
8x 1.92TB Intel SSDs
8x 480GB intel SSDs
Maybe also adding 3x 2TB Intel PCIe NVME SSDs or low profile GPU
Brilliant! You are a true innovator 👍 And... on another project, the boys will enjoy their cat tv again 😺😺 It might take Smokey's mind off of food! 😋👏
@@DHuhnCatMom yeah really hoping they will enjoy the perks of it as well. 😻
I wouldn't keep using ESXi since it's been discontinued unless the community has a way to update it to fix all the back door bugs and problems it's got after VMware was Acquired last year and Broadcom discontinued it and won't be updating 8.0.1
Yeah it is a dilemma. Unfortunately for now I got to use the tools I have and know how to use.
That Dell machine is about 9 years old? Interesting build, but a modern 6-core Ryzen and modern nvme SSD will be much, much faster. And for not much money .
It will have 20 cores eventually. Plus this can hold more drives with less effort than a custom build. Also can take more memory. Also way more PCIe lanes.
@@computersales A modern PC has one ultra-fast nvme SSD drive, and maybe one 15 or 20 *terabyte* hard drive. A lot has changed in 9 years! 😄
@@DerekDavis213 I'm using this as a server not a desktop so your points are valid but not for my use case.