Dell T420, R330, M620, T640... what do all the letters and numbers mean? In this video we'll be breaking down all of the specifics with how Dell names their PowerEdge servers. We'll be discussing the form factors and sizes, processors used, ECC RAM types, power consumption, heat, airflow, hard drive capacities, ect. 👍SUBSCRIBE👍 to see more tech videos! → ruclips.net/channel/UCS7Q_pcIDNHefwBwuH7FhrQ 🔷FOLLOW MY SOCIALS🔷 Discord - discord.gg/QsPh5rPBcV Instagram - instagram.com/warning_56k/ TikTok - www.tiktok.com/@warning56k Twitter - twitter.com/Warning_56k Facebook - facebook.com/Warning56k ✅ Dell PowerEdge R720 Server Complete Walkthrough - ruclips.net/video/clO2Dfv9Iy4/видео.html ✅ Manual Fan Control Mod for Dell PowerEdge Servers with IPMI Tool - ruclips.net/video/KamY5zMpXKI/видео.html ✅ Upgrading and modding Dell PowerEdge T320 Server to Dual Xeon T420 - ruclips.net/video/RaJRNoQoy-8/видео.html ✅ Installing & Using Rufus! - ruclips.net/video/uz6rXjfd9M4/видео.html ✅ Booting PowerEdge Server w/PCIe NVMe Using Clover Boot - ruclips.net/video/wqBa-eAnkCw/видео.htmlsi=axlm0tEMeQTlrjnR Intel ARK - rb.gy/wyvwzf Clover - rb.gy/439tuh PuTTY - www.putty.org/ Dell IPMI Tool - rb.gy/s2pycp Flashing PERC to IT Mode - tinyurl.com/36faefjj
Who gave you this pitch of an idea for this video is peaking for all us , this video is so necessary for everyone looking to start using/buy servers for homelab use.. thank you very much ❤❤
I am planning on buying a R640 for my homelab which would be my first homelab building item and most likely what I would need , since I need this for the purpose of eve-ng and whatever comes along after then 😊
I'm thinking of getting a r720 these are super cheap and r730 is a little more expensive than it and a r820 or r830 are respectably a little more expensive than previous 🤣
Thank you! Still left out a ton of information. There's so many options and exceptions. Tried to condense it into one sitting as best as possible. Thank you again!
I just took the dive into homelab as well. I picked up a R710 with dual 6 core 6 thread processors for a total of 24 logical cores. 192gb ram. And purchased a unRAID license. I may look around for a tower version of the 710 since I really don't have the space for a rack. However I do have it hanging on the wall in my office closet thanks to an amazon purchase. YT subscriber 99. FB follower #1 according to the about me page. I look forward to learning more from you and the rest of the community.
Good to see you as part of the scene! Just the other day I saw someone that had an R720 in their closet mounted on the wall. As long as the intake is pointed down, it works, right? Check out the FB group 'IT Equipment Buy/Sell Servers/Switches And anything IT related'. There's occasionally T series PowerEdge systems popping up. There's actually a T630 on Marketplace right now for $700 located in Lawrenceville, GA. A bit pricey, though. The R710's are still good machines. On yours you'll mostly likely run out of cores before you come cloe to running out of RAM. Lay down a copy of ESXi 6.7 and get a free license and you're ready to rock.
@@Warning56kb Yep and I even took the time to ensure there was plenty of room for the heat to exhaust. Previously I had it laying on a shelf this way it seems quieter. Ive got 2 noctua fans coming in today for my old Cisco switch to bring the noise level down. My next cleanup venture will be to get a small wall mounted rack big enough for the Unifi Dream Machine Pro SE and the switch. with room for some keystone plates to get my cables nicely organized. Plus I'll move my ISP router/ont in the closet. I grabbed another fiber jumper here at work to extend it over to the closet.
You're very welcome! I'll be making an updated and more streamlined video in the near future, including more information on the 13th and 14th gen servers as well as making some minor corrections.
Great video! Interested in your upcoming fan speed video. I have an R740 with up-to-date iDRAC and an R750, also up-to-date. The fan speed is not controllable via Dell's IPMI Tool on either. The Tool reports insufficient privilege held to make the change. I understand that the R730 is settable up to a specific iDRAC version and not past that version. I have been working with Dell for the past month to have them do something about the noise coming, particularly, from the R750. I have gone as far as to replace the very high performance ("gold") fans it came with with standard performance fans. Now the machine is livable, but not optimal. The fans never spin down to below about 33%. I'd like them at probably about 25%. I do have a Mellanox NIC in the machine, but it makes no difference when it's removed. By the way, that machine uses about 380 watts doing nothing. No load. (I had a T620 that ran with 30 VMs at 185 watts.) Hey, keep up the great work. Looking forward to more from your channel. All my best!
3 months, somebody gave me a Dell PowerEdge R210 II with 16Gb RAM. Before that, I was simply sharing 3 PCs via a 5 port ethernet switch. After installing Ubuntu server, NextCloud, I'm hooked. Just this week, I ended up getting a Dell PowerEdge T410 with a single 6 core CPU and 32Gb RAM for A$50 (Around $34 US) and a Dell PowerEdge R620 with 2 CPUs and 88Gb RAM for A$160 (Around $105 US).
Great video. This made me happier with the Precision Workstations and Optiplexes in my home lab from a noise/heat/power standpoint. They don't have hot swap drives or power supplies (unless you add 3rd party sata bays and controllers), but they're great for my needs and I don't mind downtime if I ever do need to replace a power supply or drive. And for additional data durability - zfs replication between machines, proxmox backup server, etc. A proper set of hot swap drives on the front of the chassis would be nice though.
Thank you! Replication is definitely a godsend if one has time to get it set up. Especially for home sever setups where performing large backups at intervals may be too much of a load.
Very informative, new to the home lab scene. I use a raspi as a Plex, Heimdall and portainer. I have another decade old PC I use to run truenas or proxmox. Once I build a new gaming pc I’ll experiment w clusters etc
You're on the right track! If your gaming PC is going to have a 13th Gen Intel, you'll be very happy. I highly recommend the i7-13700. It'll give you plenty of cores if you want to play around with VM, as well as rock out with any games you can throw at it.
Found this video too... do you have a discord? My r320 is way louder than my r330, but its temp are cold - I'm interesting in learning to tune with immu (sp?). Also, I wonder about ZFS and IT mode.
Hey there! I actually just now created a Discord server for the page, but check out this video I made last year on tuning the fan temps with IPMItool. If you look in the description of the video I also added a lot of useful information that you can copy and paste then add in your own specific data. ruclips.net/video/KamY5zMpXKI/видео.htmlsi=uVgVfm5VpE90JU1d
@@Warning56kb will do - I started tuning it last night but will take a peek at any of yer tips. Thx; I always link my discord in video descriptions, if you do I'll join. Cheers!
the prices for off lease servers is insanely cheap for the price of a home PC you can get a monster and for the price of a gamer you could equip a rack
Hello, what country are you in? There are too many good components to upgrade your computer. In Vietnam, most of them use Chinese products. Although it is cheap, it breaks down very quickly.
hp is better than dell for many reason - less proprietary parts and better more simple designs - run from dell to hp for a better experience when it comes to older pc and servers
It greatly depends on specific user needs and capabilities, but when it comes to firmware and BIOS availability Dell wins by a longshot. HPE requires an enterprise license ($$$$) for anything other than critical updates. Dell provides all for both home and enterprise users for free.
I personally have many non-proprietary parts and modifications to my PowerEdge and HPE servers, so for the vast majority of uses it's a non-issue. HPE also uses many proprietary parts as Dell does such as power connectors, so HPE has its limitations in areas as well. Again, it all depends on user needs.
@@Warning56kb hp has better designs generally - they are all old junk and way less efficient than new chips (anyways) - these old junkers are only for the most desperate - higher tco lower roi #eol
i need to heat my place i figure about 4kw running 24 hrs a day should heat my place doing will be mining storj,sia,akash,cudos,theta edge nodeim hoping to get half my heat bill back if not break even
They're unfortunately very ineffecient as heaters, as well as with crypto mining. Even GPUs which are the kings of effeciency with when it come to mining run circles around CPUs.
I have an R715 that was handed down. I wanted to run Proxmox and TrueNAS scale. Not sure if this is the right move if it consumes a lot of power, since I’m renting, it would be an issue. Any recommendations and advice ? Thank you
Honestly I would look into selling it and getting at least an R720 if you're wanting to stay with something that size. You could easily get an R720 now for what you could sell the R715 for plus have much better compatibility with a wider array of software. The internal RAID card being a possible hangup on it. BIOS management and iDrac is also much better on the 12th gen servers.
@@Warning56kb The 715 is so obsure, I was looking into trying to figure out how to update the FW and gave up, since there was no help for this one, especially running Proxmox, everything I could find was running MS or Linux. (Not sure if you have some recomendations) My main requirement is to basically have a storage service to host my RAW files from Photography and do some playing around with VM's and Docker. I have a synology that I've setup that does all the Plex stuff all in Docker containers, I figured I can have that hidden away, out of sight and mind. Given all this would you still recommend the 720 or something smaller? Love to get some ideas. Also how much do you think the R715 is worth? Its got 2x2.4Ghz 16 core processors, with 64GB RAM. Thanks in advance
thank you, and Very informative mate. by the way i just pickup the R320 and wondering the CPU reading between 65-72c (on idrac) at fan speed 15% (i set static ) and i only just installed one ESXi 8 with 1 nested esxi 7 and server 2022 VM is that too high? as i have HP DL 360 Gen9 and it's running 4 nested esxi 7 and i can see in the ILO4 CPU reading around 40-50 C
That is quite a bit high. The fans in the R320 are smaller than their R720 counterparts at 40mm vs 60mm, so that will be a bit less airflow. I'd up the fan speed a bit closer to say 25-30%. Did you happen to repaste the CPU when you got it? That may be contributing some.
@@vi8ezmusicgroup Cant wait to finally move up to an R740. Main server currently is an R720 with eight 8TB HDDs in a RAID10 array. PCIe NVMe OS drive, added a fan to the RAID daughter card (due to turning fan speeds down low), added an RTX T600 for transcoding. Has two E5-2695 v2's with 12 cores each (48 threads total), 196GB ram. Teally good VM machine, but primariy runs Plex ans the main home NAS.
If all you need is one for a single NVMe, I highly recommend the following one. I've used four of them so far and have had zero issues. The only caveat, if it is a caveat for you, is being PCIe x4 limits the speed to 4GB/s; www.amazon.com/dp/B07JJTVGZM?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Thankfully the 13th Gens support bifurication which enables you to have two NVMe drives per PCIe slot, in which case i'd recommend this one; www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2C7TG2P3BE510&keywords=pcie+slot+nvme+dual&qid=1689353864&sprefix=pcie+slot+nvme+dual%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-3
Actually I just noticed I gave you the wrong one. This is the correct one. The previous required use of an internal SATA port; www.amazon.com/GLOTRENDS-Platform-Bifurcation-Motherboard-PA21/dp/B09PGDMWKH/ref=sr_1_19?crid=2C7TG2P3BE510&keywords=pcie+slot+nvme+dual&qid=1689354658&sprefix=pcie+slot+nvme+dual%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-19 That one has bifurication support as well as supporting Gen4 NVMe drives.
Shameless plug; If anyone wants to donate a c series poweredge server so I can set up an ai that people don't have to sign up for (we'll do locally saved conversations, I don't want your chat data, or any data for that matter) feel free to reach out 🙂 I have an r620 (just prefer dell, personally) but dont think its up to the task 😅😅 Also, if anyone wants to just like, talk about it or join in, feel free as well 🙂 I'm new to it all, but do have a functional local ai (Llama 3.1 with ollama with pinokio), and love learning more
Dell T420, R330, M620, T640... what do all the letters and numbers mean?
In this video we'll be breaking down all of the specifics with how Dell names their PowerEdge servers. We'll be discussing the form factors and sizes, processors used, ECC RAM types, power consumption, heat, airflow, hard drive capacities, ect.
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Flashing PERC to IT Mode - tinyurl.com/36faefjj
Who gave you this pitch of an idea for this video is peaking for all us , this video is so necessary for everyone looking to start using/buy servers for homelab use.. thank you very much ❤❤
I am planning on buying a R640 for my homelab which would be my first homelab building item and most likely what I would need , since I need this for the purpose of eve-ng and whatever comes along after then 😊
I got an R720XD for dirt cheap. I grabbed 192 gigs or ram on ebay and it runs like a champ.
Nice! I recently took my R720 up to 192. Also have a T420 with 192, but my R710 has 'only' 144, as if that's weak sauce lol.
I'm thinking of getting a r720 these are super cheap and r730 is a little more expensive than it and a r820 or r830 are respectably a little more expensive than previous 🤣
Dude! This is one of the best videos I've seen on this topic.
Thank you! Still left out a ton of information. There's so many options and exceptions. Tried to condense it into one sitting as best as possible. Thank you again!
Same with HPE ProLiant servers.
ML - Modular line (Tower)
DL - Density Line (Rackmount)
BL - Blade Servers
SL - Scaleout
I just took the dive into homelab as well. I picked up a R710 with dual 6 core 6 thread processors for a total of 24 logical cores. 192gb ram. And purchased a unRAID license. I may look around for a tower version of the 710 since I really don't have the space for a rack. However I do have it hanging on the wall in my office closet thanks to an amazon purchase. YT subscriber 99. FB follower #1 according to the about me page. I look forward to learning more from you and the rest of the community.
Good to see you as part of the scene! Just the other day I saw someone that had an R720 in their closet mounted on the wall. As long as the intake is pointed down, it works, right? Check out the FB group 'IT Equipment Buy/Sell Servers/Switches And anything IT related'. There's occasionally T series PowerEdge systems popping up. There's actually a T630 on Marketplace right now for $700 located in Lawrenceville, GA. A bit pricey, though. The R710's are still good machines. On yours you'll mostly likely run out of cores before you come cloe to running out of RAM. Lay down a copy of ESXi 6.7 and get a free license and you're ready to rock.
@@Warning56kb Yep and I even took the time to ensure there was plenty of room for the heat to exhaust. Previously I had it laying on a shelf this way it seems quieter. Ive got 2 noctua fans coming in today for my old Cisco switch to bring the noise level down. My next cleanup venture will be to get a small wall mounted rack big enough for the Unifi Dream Machine Pro SE and the switch. with room for some keystone plates to get my cables nicely organized. Plus I'll move my ISP router/ont in the closet. I grabbed another fiber jumper here at work to extend it over to the closet.
This video just saved me additional hours of research...and this is after performing hours of research already! Thanks
You're very welcome! I'll be making an updated and more streamlined video in the near future, including more information on the 13th and 14th gen servers as well as making some minor corrections.
I got the T430 16 sff. Changed the cpu cooler for noctua and the default exhaust fan. It's a super quiet server/gaming pc
Great video! Interested in your upcoming fan speed video. I have an R740 with up-to-date iDRAC and an R750, also up-to-date. The fan speed is not controllable via Dell's IPMI Tool on either. The Tool reports insufficient privilege held to make the change. I understand that the R730 is settable up to a specific iDRAC version and not past that version. I have been working with Dell for the past month to have them do something about the noise coming, particularly, from the R750. I have gone as far as to replace the very high performance ("gold") fans it came with with standard performance fans. Now the machine is livable, but not optimal. The fans never spin down to below about 33%. I'd like them at probably about 25%. I do have a Mellanox NIC in the machine, but it makes no difference when it's removed. By the way, that machine uses about 380 watts doing nothing. No load. (I had a T620 that ran with 30 VMs at 185 watts.) Hey, keep up the great work. Looking forward to more from your channel. All my best!
this is a good breakdown on the dell series across the board.
Wish i saw your video before diving into the wiki and docs trying to make sense of all the models. Great summary!
3 months, somebody gave me a Dell PowerEdge R210 II with 16Gb RAM. Before that, I was simply sharing 3 PCs via a 5 port ethernet switch. After installing Ubuntu server, NextCloud, I'm hooked. Just this week, I ended up getting a Dell PowerEdge T410 with a single 6 core CPU and 32Gb RAM for A$50 (Around $34 US) and a Dell PowerEdge R620 with 2 CPUs and 88Gb RAM for A$160 (Around $105 US).
This is great! Now, I also feel like I'm ready to start dancing a sacrificial tribal dance atop a volcano.
Great video. This made me happier with the Precision Workstations and Optiplexes in my home lab from a noise/heat/power standpoint. They don't have hot swap drives or power supplies (unless you add 3rd party sata bays and controllers), but they're great for my needs and I don't mind downtime if I ever do need to replace a power supply or drive. And for additional data durability - zfs replication between machines, proxmox backup server, etc.
A proper set of hot swap drives on the front of the chassis would be nice though.
Thank you! Replication is definitely a godsend if one has time to get it set up. Especially for home sever setups where performing large backups at intervals may be too much of a load.
I can't believe how you put my 2 years of XP with dell servers into 15 mins :)
Good thing to know.Thanks
You're very welcome! I'll be making more videos in the future, drilling deeper into each subject. There's a lot to cover!
This was highly educational. Excellent.
Thank you!
Very informative, new to the home lab scene. I use a raspi as a Plex, Heimdall and portainer. I have another decade old PC I use to run truenas or proxmox. Once I build a new gaming pc I’ll experiment w clusters etc
You're on the right track! If your gaming PC is going to have a 13th Gen Intel, you'll be very happy. I highly recommend the i7-13700. It'll give you plenty of cores if you want to play around with VM, as well as rock out with any games you can throw at it.
Thx! I play old games like HL1 and 2, and RTCW. Wanna eventually get Black Mesa
@@RollerCoasterLineProductionsthen 12th gen is fine too for games 😅
really enjoyed this video, thanks for the information about adjusting the fan speed!
Good video, but the background music is distracting.
I live my T630 thing is a beast, especially with the 18 3.5in drive bays
I just picked up an R930 today, been drooling for a while over its curb appeal. It's a beautiful MONSTER.
running 2 R620 and 1 R720XD as well as a chenbro MR12000
Very informative! Thanks 😎
Very concise and informative. Thanks for this.
Thank you for the kind words! Happy 4th!
Thank You for this.... best one yet ¬ Great info.
Great video! Thank you for the information.......grin
Thank you for the kind words!
you should be doing videos on using old servers for crypto mining for heat
Can you post a video on how to flash a raid card into IT mode and guidance on where to find the software to do it
@@user-jd6zl8ts8v I can definitely do that! Actually that's a video I should have made a long time ago.
r630 for testing vms, r730 for your gpus and ai shiz. thats the basics.
Thank you!
Found this video too... do you have a discord? My r320 is way louder than my r330, but its temp are cold - I'm interesting in learning to tune with immu (sp?). Also, I wonder about ZFS and IT mode.
Hey there! I actually just now created a Discord server for the page, but check out this video I made last year on tuning the fan temps with IPMItool. If you look in the description of the video I also added a lot of useful information that you can copy and paste then add in your own specific data.
ruclips.net/video/KamY5zMpXKI/видео.htmlsi=uVgVfm5VpE90JU1d
@@Warning56kb will do - I started tuning it last night but will take a peek at any of yer tips. Thx; I always link my discord in video descriptions, if you do I'll join. Cheers!
@@paullee107 Let me know how it works out for you!
the prices for off lease servers is insanely cheap for the price of a home PC you can get a monster and for the price of a gamer you could equip a rack
Very true! The amount of RAM they can pack makes them a VM wonderland!
To the point. TY
For CPU I use CPU Benchmarks
Nice hat! Do you work at TVA?
Thank you! I don't, but have quite a few family members and friends that do. Hopefully I will in a couple of years! (Navy submariner)
Hello, what country are you in? There are too many good components to upgrade your computer. In Vietnam, most of them use Chinese products. Although it is cheap, it breaks down very quickly.
I thought the last digit designation was 0 & 5 not 0 & 1?
It is. I made an annotation on the screen correcting it. Fat fingered the script and never noticed 🤣
@@Warning56kb lol, all g i do not see the annotation be on my mobile. Good summary
@@michaelfitzgeraldnet Thank you for letting me know! In the future i'll try to keep from having to add corrections 🤣
hp is better than dell for many reason - less proprietary parts and better more simple designs - run from dell to hp for a better experience when it comes to older pc and servers
It greatly depends on specific user needs and capabilities, but when it comes to firmware and BIOS availability Dell wins by a longshot. HPE requires an enterprise license ($$$$) for anything other than critical updates. Dell provides all for both home and enterprise users for free.
I personally have many non-proprietary parts and modifications to my PowerEdge and HPE servers, so for the vast majority of uses it's a non-issue. HPE also uses many proprietary parts as Dell does such as power connectors, so HPE has its limitations in areas as well. Again, it all depends on user needs.
@@Warning56kb hp has better designs generally - they are all old junk and way less efficient than new chips (anyways) - these old junkers are only for the most desperate - higher tco lower roi #eol
I have yet to experience any of the issues that you're stating over the past fifteen years with either brands.🤷🏻♂️
i need to heat my place i figure about 4kw running 24 hrs a day should heat my place doing will be mining storj,sia,akash,cudos,theta edge nodeim hoping to get half my heat bill back if not break even
They're unfortunately very ineffecient as heaters, as well as with crypto mining. Even GPUs which are the kings of effeciency with when it come to mining run circles around CPUs.
I have an R715 that was handed down. I wanted to run Proxmox and TrueNAS scale. Not sure if this is the right move if it consumes a lot of power, since I’m renting, it would be an issue. Any recommendations and advice ? Thank you
Honestly I would look into selling it and getting at least an R720 if you're wanting to stay with something that size. You could easily get an R720 now for what you could sell the R715 for plus have much better compatibility with a wider array of software. The internal RAID card being a possible hangup on it. BIOS management and iDrac is also much better on the 12th gen servers.
@@Warning56kb The 715 is so obsure, I was looking into trying to figure out how to update the FW and gave up, since there was no help for this one, especially running Proxmox, everything I could find was running MS or Linux. (Not sure if you have some recomendations)
My main requirement is to basically have a storage service to host my RAW files from Photography and do some playing around with VM's and Docker. I have a synology that I've setup that does all the Plex stuff all in Docker containers, I figured I can have that hidden away, out of sight and mind. Given all this would you still recommend the 720 or something smaller? Love to get some ideas.
Also how much do you think the R715 is worth? Its got 2x2.4Ghz 16 core processors, with 64GB RAM. Thanks in advance
thank you, and Very informative mate. by the way i just pickup the R320 and wondering the CPU reading between 65-72c (on idrac) at fan speed 15% (i set static ) and i only just installed one ESXi 8 with 1 nested esxi 7 and server 2022 VM is that too high? as i have HP DL 360 Gen9 and it's running 4 nested esxi 7 and i can see in the ILO4 CPU reading around 40-50 C
That is quite a bit high. The fans in the R320 are smaller than their R720 counterparts at 40mm vs 60mm, so that will be a bit less airflow. I'd up the fan speed a bit closer to say 25-30%. Did you happen to repaste the CPU when you got it? That may be contributing some.
@Warning56kb thank you I will need to check that out
I have a R730 with 28 cores 248 gb ram. Thats my main go to these days. Also a R720 and R710 both with 160+ GB ram. Never use and should sale them.
@@vi8ezmusicgroup Cant wait to finally move up to an R740. Main server currently is an R720 with eight 8TB HDDs in a RAID10 array. PCIe NVMe OS drive, added a fan to the RAID daughter card (due to turning fan speeds down low), added an RTX T600 for transcoding. Has two E5-2695 v2's with 12 cores each (48 threads total), 196GB ram. Teally good VM machine, but primariy runs Plex ans the main home NAS.
What are the recommendations for a PCI adaptor to install nvme drives for my R730?
If all you need is one for a single NVMe, I highly recommend the following one. I've used four of them so far and have had zero issues. The only caveat, if it is a caveat for you, is being PCIe x4 limits the speed to 4GB/s;
www.amazon.com/dp/B07JJTVGZM?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
Thankfully the 13th Gens support bifurication which enables you to have two NVMe drives per PCIe slot, in which case i'd recommend this one;
www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2C7TG2P3BE510&keywords=pcie+slot+nvme+dual&qid=1689353864&sprefix=pcie+slot+nvme+dual%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-3
@@Warning56kb That second one supports gen 3 drives, correct?
Actually I just noticed I gave you the wrong one. This is the correct one. The previous required use of an internal SATA port;
www.amazon.com/GLOTRENDS-Platform-Bifurcation-Motherboard-PA21/dp/B09PGDMWKH/ref=sr_1_19?crid=2C7TG2P3BE510&keywords=pcie+slot+nvme+dual&qid=1689354658&sprefix=pcie+slot+nvme+dual%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-19
That one has bifurication support as well as supporting Gen4 NVMe drives.
@@Warning56kb Thank you! Appreciate it much!
Shameless plug;
If anyone wants to donate a c series poweredge server so I can set up an ai that people don't have to sign up for (we'll do locally saved conversations, I don't want your chat data, or any data for that matter) feel free to reach out 🙂
I have an r620 (just prefer dell, personally) but dont think its up to the task 😅😅
Also, if anyone wants to just like, talk about it or join in, feel free as well 🙂 I'm new to it all, but do have a functional local ai (Llama 3.1 with ollama with pinokio), and love learning more