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The BEST Homelab Server for the Money – Dell PowerEdge
The BEST Homelab Server for the Money – Dell PowerEdge R730
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“Computers and Coffey”
Showcasing my Dell R730 server that I use in my homelab.
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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?
your server is in the closet lol
Make another video…u funny af when u said “the server doesn’t deserve more than that” 😂
I'd be offended by the nerd comment…. if I had anything larger than a 42U rack… THOSE NERDS!
Starving children in….
YOU….. (youtube won't let me call you an effluent hole).
I live in Africa.
I haven't been a starving children but that joke was offensive.
Send me that server.
Your video editing sucks.
You clearly are on the spectrum.
Great idea I am going to ebay now.
Fantastic server.
I ended up going with a used Supermicro. For the same price it just came with more. My R720 had too many problems with drive compatibility.
that vga slot is 8x, while the other is 16x, plus intel arc are not 100% perfect with this r730. get a rtx 30 or rtx 40 series and ull be better in stability. i tried the arc 770 and pc crash when installing chipset or inteldrivers very often, plus this card got low performance.
Reminds me of exactly how I felt when I got my first poweredge server. It's a super fun hobby, and that's a great way to start.
If you move to a colder climate you would need to upgrade your server farm to stay warm. Don't listen to those central heating losers. BTW, Nvidia P40s are pretty cheap and you can use them for transcoding, Stable diffusion, AI and ML.
That is very affordable option from what i seen. I just ordered one workstation t7820 with warranty, its with next scalable generation(1st one), but from the specs and options this gives you its very good option, and maybe would be even better for me too. I plan to use it as a server which workstations are not supposed to be, but still solid solution for continual operation i guess.
I got a Dell R900 for $80 like 6 months ago (4 cpus, 128gb ram)! Its been such an experience learning on it! I would love to know more about the powering of the GPU and anything else as the only way I'm powering any pcie devices is I've added a desktop psu along side the server. If I could power it all internally that would be sooo much easier!
One video?! Lets see more! 😉 I like your personality and enthusiasm 🤣 Also, did she make you remove it from the closet yet? haha.
I use a R730XD for my TrueNAS server running plex and its awesome. I have another R730 as my Proxmox host running things like docker, AMP for game servers, and some windows VMs. I use the Dell IPMI iDrac fan tool to quiet them. They are right next to me in my office and are no louder than say a gaming PCs fan noise while gaming.
Enterprise gear is the most efficient use per watt… there's a reason why all the ps's are Platinum or titanium rated (Actual, not chinese slap-on sticker)
DC Engineer here and also Dell PowerEdge hardware certified. R700 series are good machines, we have over 400 of them in the DC i work at. Personally for home i use a PowerEdge T110 tower server, beefed up with the best CPU's i could shove in it. Power consumption is sensible and best of all its Silent. I have it in a cupboard not far from our living room and cannot hear it. I used ESXi and virtualise everything Pfsense, NAS, UniFi server, Pi-Hole etc.
I just upgraded one of my servers in the datacenter, i switches from a Dell R620 to a R640, and i think the biggest upgrade is DDR4 RAM ;-). Plus it didnt even cost a lot more then a used R620
Great Video btw! 🙂
Too much electricity?
i would go used like you but i cant it has to be whisper quite because i live in a 2 bedroom house and i have 2 brother liveing with me one in the back bedroom and one in the liveing room i have a firewall and 2 servers running with my 10 gb network switch and you cant hear anything and he sleep good new out will have a place for a server rack so it dont be in the liveing room but well its in the liveing room i also used it to place my sourround sound system on it as well so its like a 2 in one
Is it worth today? I found 6 of them with 256 gb ram ddr4, 2 x intel 2690 v4, perc raid installed, x16 sff . 500 dollar per piece, is it worth ?
I believe that the R730 has a bios/idrac update that will update the virtual console to use HTML 5 instead of Java. For me this made getting the VC to work much more reliably.
Because i can…famous last words before the checking account is drained.
Hi,.im interested in purchasing this server. I understand you are running proxmox and have 6 x 3.5" hds. Can you tell me how you have your storage setup? What raid configuration?
Well, at least this guy is cute!
I remember when the R710 used to cost $400 – $500. I need to upgrade 😀
this guy is a legend
You are going to want a second server. How else are you going to organize backups otherwise?
Don't wait for your single server to fail and realize you are no longer able to access those snapshots 😢
I still run one of these at work for 2nd backup off site, 10 years now running 24/7 with only drives and power supply failing, zero data loss.
my question is I got a deal on an r720 with originally 2.5 bays and the seller is saying its not going to work for my 3.5 drives. Any suggestions I've never touched these type of computers before so I dont know if im missing something obvious. In a normal computer its just a cable i plug it to a 2.5 or 3.5 no fuss but I'm not sure if dell's require an hdd bay . I dont mind frankesteining it a bit and just having mypair of hdd drives sitting there without being secure. Any recommendations?
To be honest i wanted a server like this for my 1st just becouse i can as well . good vid.
Now you've got one you need another as a backup 👍