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Dell PowerEdge T30 Mini Server: Intel Xeon E3-1225, 1TB HDD Expired

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Dell Small Business has Dell PowerEdge T30 Mini Server on sale for $549 - $250 off w/ coupon code DB299T30 = $299. Shipping is free. Thanks DealDialer

Specs (full specs)
  • Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor
  • Intel HD Graphics P530 (onboard)
  • 8GB 2400 MT/s DDR4 RAM (ECC)
  • 1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
  • DVD+/-RW Internal Drive
  • 290W Power Supply
  • No Operating System
  • Ports:
    • 6x USB 3.0 (2x Front, 4x Rear)
    • 6x USB 2.0 (2x Front, 4x Rear)
    • 1x Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000)

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Well, for me personally I went with a Dell R710.
Its an older server that can be found easily on ebay for about $200-$300

I got mine for like $220 with 24GB of RAM.
I spent $100 to upgrade it to 64GB of RAM so for about the same price I had a server with dual Xeon cpu's, enterprise grade hardware, it uses MUCH cheaper RDIMMS (looking right now at 6x16GB for $200 for 96GB of RAM) it holds 6x3.5" Drives upfront with hotswap, dual power supplies, IPMI, etc etc.

The downside is, its older tech so the performance per watt is not as good. My server idles about 120W and runs at about 200W. Also some servers can be quite loud, the R710 is not loud and I manually slowed down the speeds with some IPMI commands.

I would never get a server without IPMI its a godsend, since day one a monitor, mouse, keyboard and CD drive have never been connected to this server, yet I have all those connections over IP.

I did the math, it cost me $10 a month to leave this server on 24/7, to build a server that could preform the same duty it would have cost me about $1500 to use new age parts.

It will take over 7 years before it was not a better value to get a used server instead of buying a new one, and I will easily replace this server with another used one in 5 years time.

At that point this will be retired to backup/replication duty.

It's not for everybody, but once you get into it. its great.
I plan to start moving all my computer equipment to rackmount formfactor because having so many towers, switches, routers, etc laying around gets messy.

My setup is ESXi 6.5 (Free) as my Hypervisor
Freenas 11 w/ 8 vCPU and 48GB RAM connected to the Dell H200 with VTx passthrough to 6x8TB WD RED in RaidZ2 so I have about 30TB of usable storage with 2 disk failure.
VM's
Server 2016 running ISpy with 4 vCPU and 4GB RAM, records my cameras to a Freenas Share
Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop VM running Observium 4GB RAM 2vCPU
Ubuntu 16.04 Server running Home Assistant and Ubuqiti Unifi 3GB RAM 2vCPU
Windows 10 Desktop as a guest VM (for when people use my computer) 4VCPU 4GB RAM
My Freenas VM has 3 jails, 2x Transmission for Torrents (1 inside VPN one open) and a Plex jail.

So I am using pretty much all my 64GB of RAM and I still have tons of CPU overhead left for Plex or other tasks as needed.

Best place to go IMO to learn more is ServeTheHome
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Yes, ESXi 6.5 runs fine on the T30. VMWare now calls ESXi "vSphere Hypervisor" in their documentation, so the free download is found here: https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmwa...free-esxi6
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I'm running one of these as my Plex server right now and it works great! All my Plex/Sonarr/Radarr/Jackett/Sickrage media applications are in one VM and my other testing apps in a second VM guest hosted on Hyper-V. I've run two 720p streams and it works fine for that. There's no hardware RAID controller so I keep the VMs on the included HDD and all the media data on a second HDD passed through iSCSI.
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Brandon_O
02-14-2018 at 04:15 PM.
02-14-2018 at 04:15 PM.
Thanks. I've been waiting for this deal to come back.
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hypnosis4u2nv
02-14-2018 at 04:16 PM.
02-14-2018 at 04:16 PM.
Pretty happy with mine. Hopefully there's some good cash back offers so I can pick up a 2nd one.
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heelfan108
02-14-2018 at 04:24 PM.
02-14-2018 at 04:24 PM.
Has anyone install bare metal ESXi on this server? Is there a free edition? https://www.vmware.com/products/e...d-esx.html
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lgormley
02-14-2018 at 04:33 PM.
02-14-2018 at 04:33 PM.
Quote from heelfan108 :
Has anyone install bare metal ESXi on this server? Is there a free edition? https://www.vmware.com/products/e...d-esx.html
Yes, ESXi 6.5 runs fine on the T30. VMWare now calls ESXi "vSphere Hypervisor" in their documentation, so the free download is found here: https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmwa...free-esxi6
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lebnan60
02-14-2018 at 04:44 PM.
02-14-2018 at 04:44 PM.
Super noob question here but I've been wanting to build a raspberry pi backup server/Plex server but felt it would be lacking. This seems like a pretty good starter server, but I don't even know where to start with this stuff. If I get a basic os loaded like Ubuntu, can I run this as a backup/Plex server? Only thing I see I would need is to add a larger hard drive
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f1ydave
02-14-2018 at 04:55 PM.
02-14-2018 at 04:55 PM.
Quote from lebnan60 :
Super noob question here but I've been wanting to build a raspberry pi backup server/Plex server but felt it would be lacking. This seems like a pretty good starter server, but I don't even know where to start with this stuff. If I get a basic os loaded like Ubuntu, can I run this as a backup/Plex server? Only thing I see I would need is to add a larger hard drive

You could, or do a esxi 6.5 and remote into it and set up a VM of Ubuntu
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LiquoredOnLife
02-14-2018 at 04:56 PM.
02-14-2018 at 04:56 PM.
Does this come with drive bays to mount 4x 3.5" drives? The picture on the product spec sheet:
http://i.dell.com/das/xa.ashx/glo...pdp-m2.jpg
Shows a single 2x 3.5" cage.

Edit:

Derp, the uppers are also 2x 3.5" drive bays. Attached screenshot from manual.
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lgormley
02-14-2018 at 05:01 PM.
02-14-2018 at 05:01 PM.
Quote from LiquoredOnLife :
Does this come with drive bays to mount 4x 3.5" drives? The picture on the product spec sheet:
http://i.dell.com/das/xa.ashx/glo...pdp-m2.jpg [dell.com]
Shows a single 2x 3.5" cage.
Yes, it comes with 4 x 3.5" drive bays. The one 2 x 3.5" drive cage is in the middle of the case, and the other is at the bottom of the case.

It also comes with a slim DVD drive that can be removed to fit another 2 x 2.5" drives.
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02-14-2018 at 05:03 PM.
02-14-2018 at 05:03 PM.
Quote from lgormley :
Yes, it comes with 4 x 3.5" drive bays. The one 2 x 3.5" drive cage is in the middle of the case, and the other is at the bottom of the case.

It also comes with a slim DVD drive that can be removed to fit another 2 x 2.5" drives.
http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/po..._en-us.pdf
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Prehensile
02-14-2018 at 05:08 PM.
02-14-2018 at 05:08 PM.
Quote from lebnan60 :
Super noob question here but I've been wanting to build a raspberry pi backup server/Plex server but felt it would be lacking. This seems like a pretty good starter server, but I don't even know where to start with this stuff. If I get a basic os loaded like Ubuntu, can I run this as a backup/Plex server? Only thing I see I would need is to add a larger hard drive
I'm running one of these as my Plex server right now and it works great! All my Plex/Sonarr/Radarr/Jackett/Sickrage media applications are in one VM and my other testing apps in a second VM guest hosted on Hyper-V. I've run two 720p streams and it works fine for that. There's no hardware RAID controller so I keep the VMs on the included HDD and all the media data on a second HDD passed through iSCSI.
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bellemead
02-14-2018 at 05:12 PM.
02-14-2018 at 05:12 PM.
I have one set up as a workstation running Windows server 2016 with desktop experience and 3 monitors using the integrated graphics. Memory is pricey but the 8 GB has been ok. The power supply is puny but can be upgraded. Runs office 2016, QuickBooks and more. Server 2016 looks and acts just like Windows 10 without the nasties. The only thing I could not get installed was iCloud even editing the msi files with orca.
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lebnan60
02-14-2018 at 05:16 PM.
02-14-2018 at 05:16 PM.
Quote from Prehensile :
I'm running one of these as my Plex server right now and it works great! All my Plex/Sonarr/Radarr/Jackett/Sickrage media applications are in one VM and my other testing apps in a second VM guest hosted on Hyper-V. I've run two 720p streams and it works fine for that. There's no hardware RAID controller so I keep the VMs on the included HDD and all the media data on a second HDD passed through iSCSI.

Thanks...I'll have to Google half of this, but it gives me a starting point 😁
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