jpadgett Posted January 22 Posted January 22 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. 2 Quote
ubergeek Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Nice setup, it will defiantly keep ya warm , my 530 sure does Quote
bdistin Posted January 22 Posted January 22 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. Quote
Dylan Posted January 24 Posted January 24 @jpadgett What kind of power consumption does that look like so far? Crazy expensive or nah? Quote
jpadgett Posted January 25 Author Posted January 25 On 1/24/2025 at 11:46 PM, Dylan said: @jpadgett What kind of power consumption does that look like so far? Crazy expensive or nah? Expand Around 180 Watts is what I am seeing with 16 Spinning 900GB 2.5 10K SAS Drives. Not great but not bad. 2 Quote
jpadgett Posted January 25 Author Posted January 25 (edited) On 1/22/2025 at 7:54 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. Expand 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 by jpadgett 1 Quote
jpadgett Posted February 19 Author Posted February 19 On 1/22/2025 at 3:41 AM, ubergeek said: Nice setup, it will defiantly keep ya warm , my 530 sure does Expand 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. Quote
jpadgett Posted February 19 Author Posted February 19 Just found 128gb of ram on sale on eBay for 60 bucks. That is going in the r730XD. Can't wait. Quote
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