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I just bought an r630 and should've bought the xd version. Half length single slot gpu is a very narrow selection for transcoding and inference. Do yourself a favor and get a larger server so you can get better gpu for a self hosted media server and self hosted ai. The more vram, the better it is for inference.

I run a 5900X and an A4000 on a micro ATX board for plex. 30 watts idle. I have first gen Threadripper servers. Looking to replace with these.

Dude you're hilarious talking to yourself. You should definitely make more videos.

I buy R730 to someone online. And got scammed.. Paid the server but the seller not send

Thanks for the video! I am defiantly looking into Mocha now! Have a great day!

You said "figured put a place to stick it"... where ? Any ideas ? Can on a balcony sit ? Even if in the summer is very hot and in the winter very cold ? And how many watts does it consume per month ?

how could you earn money from this?

For that slot with the wrench icon on the front, it's a vFlash slot, which is basically a specially branded SD card. vFlash is basically just some storage that you can load CD images on, and your server can boot from it as if it was a real CD drive. It's not for authenticating with the BIOS. (However if you haven't changed the default password, out of the box you can plug in a USB drive with a config file and iDRAC will load a bunch of settings from it.) Last I checked vFlash were just Kingston cards with a special label, but generic cards won't work in the slot.

If I ever got this thing my parent would kill me. also PS. you don't need java to use the console, iDRAC8 have HTML5 console you just have to turn it on

it is odd that these were selling in the USA for 400 dollars a year ago. the price never got that low in Germany. the r630 is 99 Euros barebone but then would need more 200 dollars to be prepped up

See I agree and disagree. I have an R730, but i have the more common 2.5in SAS drive configuration, and i have several reasons why i dont end up using it anymore. Primarily, just... Too much power. If i could retrofit it with the 3.5in hard drive bays, i would consider moving everything onto the R730 and just call it a day, but because it has the 2.5in bays im stuck using it basically as a hypervisor with no storage. Also mine has a bug with c states and so it doesnt benefit from the power savings features that you get from that, and it idles at over 150watts... I dunno.

Sorry had to stop watching because of the editing

how are the r430 (1u) louder?

13:50 to 14:30 wild tangent!

These are the type of shenanigans I prefer as well. My HPE DL380 Gen9 is crammed in a closet on 3D printed feet so the ears don't get borked. About to aquire almost 40 Dell and HPE servers so things are gonna get stupid quick...

Careful using moca and powerline adapters. if you dont secure them neighbors can plug one in and connect to your network.

Can you play games on a Windows 10 VM while Plex/jellyfin encoding on a separate Truenas VM with the Intel ARC ?

Man....quiet those fans down. Install the ipmi and set them to like 20-25%...you won't even hear it. I have one in a rack in my living room. You'd never know it was there (except for the 7 foot rack in the corner). Google the ilmi commands...its really simple and quiets them wayyyyy down.

We get the point get on with it

Recommended for Audio/MIDI recording studio ?

Just bought mine never had any enterprise grade equipment in the house. Wife might not be the happiest, but I'm geeking since I've been away from my job for sometime as a ws/vmware/rh server admin

hey boss my old work gave me a free r640 and I got about 128 gb of memory and like a terabyte of storage and missing one fan, lmfao. at least I got both batteries and besides just loading random ass VM's on it using eSXI 7.0 i have nothing else to do with it

Hey, got any idea if a R730 would make a decent gaming server choice?

I was expecting it to be loud but holy crap when it’s starting up it is so loud I can’t turn it on when anyone else is home

1 Server turns into 3 and so on, I am currently on my 4th R720 in my rack :D Couldn't be happier with them

Hahaha... this is overkill for what you wanted! Like buying an 18 wheeler to go get your mail. However, if you learn how to work with a server like this and gain a ton of knowledge from it then its not a waste of money. It's a good investment for knowledge.

Thanks for making this video bud. Thinking of getting one myself for stable diffusion

I manage dell servers, the idrac is pretty good. I wish the host level cli was better. But with idrac8 web gui - if you go into configuration settings - you can change the default VNC from java to html5 if you dont want to leave the browser.

having it in the closet is not a big issue. I would get a 2x4 so that you are not resting that server on the rack ears, it can dork them up. or get a vertical mount 2u/4u rack and hang it on the wall.

I currently have plans to put a server on the floor or under my bed

could you update the fans to make it quieter? maybe use Noctura style fans?

Liked it right after: "Buy it and figure out the solution later" and subscribed after I saw it in the closet haha

I agree, I can too! I have 2 Dell R720's to play with I got cheap from Ebay. I have built regular PC's, but have never played with enterprise gear. It's fun and with VM's, you can do a lot without having several PC's around. Yes, looks matter to me as well. I like the looks of the Dell servers. Nice video.

i have one, how should i start installing it?

Hey man I appreciate the dry sarcastic humor, shit was funny, im the same way. "If you have problems like i do and have money " lmao yup I absolutely don't need this server and im buying it anyway haha

i just recently bought one of these systems. my nas just isn't up to the job of streaming my media. i set everything up perfectly and no streams came through. i think i needed a gpu for transcoding but its just a 4 bay asustor nas and i don't know how to do all that. My poweredge i put a gpu right in it and bam, transcoding done. it may be overkill for a homelab but who cares right...😂

i think all usb are 3.0 there are not color coded like on an consumer pc. the internal one is meant for your os or recovery drive. also i have one question why only dual channel? came it like that?

r630 and r730 are pretty efficient but still too much power for most home server applications. i have a r630 at it highest configuration except for ram 1.6TB is enough 64gb modules are relative cheap but 128gb modules cost nearly 5 times more. i set mine in power efficient mod so it draws on idle only 60W but on performance mod 200W is idle power but the compute power stays the same the oly thing is the response time the r630 needs 2 second from 0% to 100% on performance mode he would do this in 0.5sek. so as for my private use case i can live with the 2sek. i run many services for me on this but also i host 5 game servers for me and my friends and there friends. one of my services is a ai image creator that will need 50% of the whole compute power and also i have 3 nvidia quadro t1000 in the back pcie slots also being used only for ai and video transcoding. mine uses up to 700W at peak but under normal load over the day it uses only 70W at peak. the r630 is really limited in internal space but it is more or less the same as the r730 but in a smaller case and it uses 2.5 drives instead of the cheaper 3.5 drives. so yea it is a nice machine also cheap used to buy you can get one 300€ to 600€ for the basic or more common configuration 800€ to 1300€ you can get the rarer top models like e5 2699v3 or V4 cpu or with a h730 mini raid controller or the 4 port sfp+ 10gb nic and such rare options. one quick note you can set over the idrac the fan min speed to 5% instead of the 30% is standard. 5% is enough airflow for idle also the system much quieter even the r630 was laud as a prebuild pc on idle. 100% is a whole other level of noise ^^' this scared me it the first start up ^^

What is your opinion about servers like this? Me was "injected" that I shouldn't buy so servers because they need so much power and are big and they power/price isn't good? But no other mainboard has so many PCIe slots. And I want so many PCIe ports😊

There are so many things inaccurate with this video. Not to mention complaining about running a wire but then you run a network cable AROUND A CORNER from adapter. Also, Powerline is not better than most wifi. Maybe if you're using 2.4ghz, but if that's the case, you'd get better speeds by upgrading your router or wireless access points. Just run ethernet. If you can't, ask your nerd friend that can.

"Not only am I impatient, but I'm also a cheap ass" literally me

Great video defo want to try those Mocas myself

The long awaited sequel! Hopefully as entertaining and funny as the last one

I did this when I started out, picked up 2x HP DL380p 2Us, and then quickly realized I should start with consumer x86 hardware. Recently setup a Dell T7610 as my truenas core machine

using an dell optiplex 7050 with i5 gen 6 and 32gb of ram, ran proxmox with truenas, ubuntu server, freepbx, and windows 7 for torrent station, my one and only home server :)

the intel arc card is interesting but isn't its transcoding capabilities a bit reliant on resizable bar being turned on? I don't think the R730 has such an option in BIOS

well done. i used to learn that way.

You're probably aware by now but if the bios and idrac firmware have been updated then the fans will spin extra fast whenever a non-Dell PCI card or hard drive are detected. You'll need to search for "ipmitool" and use that to manually set the fans to something reasonable. Also, to others who may find this, the remote console feature requires a license from Dell which the previous owner may or may not have purchased. Lastly, you'll probably want to set the raid controller to "hba" mode before you start installing drives.

are you running it 24/7/31?