Building the Ultimate Budget Homelab for under $500 with 768GB RAM

Join me as I upgrade my Dell PowerEdge R720xd with 768gb of RAM and dual Intel XEON E5-2697 V2 CPUs!
Watch install new home server hardware and troubleshoot ProxMox.
💡 Who this video is for:
People upgrading their PowerEdge R720xd server hardware
Tech enthusiasts building their first home lab
Users interested in NAS and media servers
Noobs that want to learn how to setup servers at home
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[@rdsii64]

My R720 has 192 gigs of ram and I thought I had a bunch or ram. You sir have a bunch of ram. I'll grab a pair of new CPU's soon.

[@jsherinjr]

Blank sticks are mostly for air flow

[@chrisradtke]

Those look like Xeon processors, not Xenon, unless they started filling them with a gas that I wasn't aware of.

[@dleer_defi]

LMAO 😂

[@christopherjames9843]

I think you are going to be ram starved....... Only kidding lol!

[@dleer_defi]

You can never have too much ram!!!… right? RIGHT??? 😂

[@TheTrulyInsane]

Would have been a lot easier to get to the ram if you removed the fan tray
Using a ground strap to a case that doesn't have a power cable connected to ground doesn't ground you

[@dleer_defi]

You learn something new every day! I will revisit my grounding methodology

[@waregeeksny]

13:45 This is the reason I don't use static straps and train new techs to condition themselves to touch the metal of the server case or any other metal outside the case, i.e., table, rack, workbench, etc., before sticking their grubby paws into a PC or server.

[@yotubemcka8601]

I wouldn't us the mx SSD drives as they don't trim correctly in prixmox as well as true as

[@dleer_defi]

Can you provide more info about this? I’ve never heard that before and want to research. I am planing to do the SSD boot upgrade on my R720xd this week!

[@jj-icejoe6642]

Power bill ?

[@shetho1]

When is the next server video coming out

[@dleer_defi]

At least one home server video will be posted this week!

[@robertj1138]

what are you doing with all that RAM on the server?

[@dleer_defi]

The ram will support 8 vms along with my NAS.

[@robertj1138]

@dleer_defi it sounds like you have way more RAM than you will need, but go big or go home I guess.

[@dleer_defi]

@@robertj1138probably 😂 I am on a quest to show that older server hardware is not e-waste and we can still build overkill setups with it

[@evelbsstudio]

​@@dleer_defi I have a Dell r710 running happily with proxmox installed and about 10 vm and 15 containers, yes it's old but it works.
The only issue is the power consumption and electricity costs in the UK..