So here is my local.hex system

[jpadgett]

My system is a Dell PowerEdge r730XD it came with no drives. I upgraded the 2 CPU's to Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2670 v3 12 cores. These gives me 48 total cores. The memory is just 32gb for now I am going to upgrade it to 128 or 256 have not decided on that yet. I upgrade the Raid module to a mini300 flashed for IT mode and also add the rear 2 2.5 drive board in the back. I bought 20 900GB 10k SAS drives 4 were bad so I had 16 to work with. I installed HexOS in a mirror raid on the 2 rear 2.5 drives the are 800GB Dell SSD drives.  I plan on filling all the 2.5 with 900GB SAS drives and the add a JBOD below it with 8 3.5 drives with more storage space. Right below it is my Dell r710 running Proxmox and a Dell r530 below that running UnRaid.

[ubergeek]

Nice setup, it will defiantly keep ya warm , my 530 sure does

 

[Mawson]

Sick. I love the look of that hardware!

[bdistin]

Following to see what you get for the JBOD. I have a bunch more 2.5 slots on my r730xd, but some exos 20tb drives could be pretty sweet someday.

[Dylan]

@jpadgett What kind of power consumption does that look like so far? Crazy expensive or nah?

[jpadgett]

1 hour ago, Dylan said:

@jpadgett What kind of power consumption does that look like so far? Crazy expensive or nah?

Around 180 Watts is what I am seeing with 16 Spinning 900GB 2.5 10K SAS Drives. Not great but not bad.

[jpadgett]

On 1/22/2025 at 2:54 AM, bdistin said:

Following to see what you get for the JBOD. I have a bunch more 2.5 slots on my r730xd, but some exos 20tb drives could be pretty sweet someday.

I have a external mini SAS 8 bay 3.5" case for now I am going to slide into my rack on a shelf and hook i up with a SAS card put some 6tb or 8 tb SATA drives in that. This is the place I buy all my cards form and the card getting for my Dell..

 

 

Edited January 25, 2025 by jpadgett

[jpadgett]

On 1/21/2025 at 10:41 PM, ubergeek said:

Nice setup, it will defiantly keep ya warm , my 530 sure does

 

I have a r530, r710 and a r730XXD plus 2 apple xserve a 1,1 and 3,1 they are not running right now. but not too bad on the heat.

[jpadgett]

Just found 128gb of ram on sale on eBay for 60 bucks. That is going in the r730XD. Can't wait.

[ubergeek]

In my Jeremy Clarkson voice MORE POWAAAAA