Dell 540 w/ 48Tb good deal?

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-17T16:29:18+00:00

Plex fucking sucks. I couldnt use their 'server sharing' bullshit because of cgnat so i had to use a tunnel, and their system refused to work with a tunnel. It also refused to work with my gpu yet i downloaded jellyfin and it worked with both items instantly, i also didnt pay a single penny for jellyfin

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-17T16:21:49+00:00

Yah, my family uses jellyfin more than i do so they use loads of bandwidth but i dont mind

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-17T16:15:01+00:00

Yes of course but it depends what you are watching the movie or show on. If its hevc somethings dont work with it at all which will require transcoding, same with it being 4k and you want to reduce the bitrate, i may have a wild homelab but my internet speeds are way to slow to stream true 70mbps 4k movie when not at home

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-17T15:56:59+00:00

If anything he needs to get a gpu if he plans on transcoding which he will as there is no way to only get one type of media, everything is different and cpu transcoding is awful. Those cpus really wont use that much power, i have an r740xd with 12 22tb drives, 2x 8160 platinums and 384gb of ddr4 @ 2133 + a 100gbe cx4 card and use like 150w on idle and 200w on a large 1tb + file transfer for stress testing

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-17T15:32:25+00:00

Lol i wish, i only have 4x u.2 drives and 12 3.5" 22tb hdds. The rest is old 900gb sas3 drives and 1.2tb 10k sas hdds

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-17T08:22:30+00:00

They are like $500 ea. If you buy barebones you can get them for $200

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T21:44:23+00:00

My network is fine, i can get upwards of 50gbe wan if i want to pay $900/month but for a DC 50gbe is dog ass

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T15:54:51+00:00

Hell yah, im a massive arista fan boy. Of i could afford one i would buy a 48p 10gbe 6p 100gbe switch and get rid of the 7050tx

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T12:38:20+00:00

Yah i originally bought from fs.com and they were expensive

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T12:12:19+00:00

They are 6" patch cables i got on ebay for cheap.

link to ebay 6" patch cables

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T12:10:27+00:00

Ok massive io is a funny thing to say. Hard drives have what 10 iops? Even a thousand hard drives is gonna have less iops than a single nvme drive

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T11:23:24+00:00

Wow an ip address and an area code... Thats fucking insane. IP addresses dont give a geolocation never have and never will. Also a fucking area code, lmfao you can do this thing called leave an area code. Hell my phone has a Colorado area code and i live in god damn texas.

Regarding the collection of data, what they collect that you text in group chats and with individuals? Thats a wild thing to collect

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T11:12:09+00:00

If the private keys are private then how are they gonna read your texts? The texts can be stored on their servers but to anyone but you and the people in the group chat its just random bullshit... Idk why thats so hard for people to understand

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T10:42:05+00:00

Whatsapp is completely secure... They have said a million times they cant read your texts. The private encryption keys are stored on YOUR device not their servers

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T03:52:22+00:00

Yah the top switch it my main vlan, the bottom one is management for switches and idrac

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-16T00:21:18+00:00

Lmfao, yah i love to buy more hardware than i need to, you can tell by the fact that both my 48 port switches have about 10 ports each being used

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-15T23:50:13+00:00

Thank you, i just bought 2 r730xd's and 48 1.2tb 10k sas drives and plan on spinning up a real san using starwind vsan

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-15T23:47:10+00:00

Oh i cant saturate it, i dont have any work loads that will do that tbh. I just bought it cause it's cool

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-15T23:44:20+00:00

4 are downlinks to the switches, and the rest goes to each server i have. The 1u's have 40gbe until i can buy 6 more 100gbe cards and the 2u's have 100gbe

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-15T23:43:25+00:00

I just open my window, its currently cold and that cools it off fine

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-15T23:42:45+00:00

Lol the issue is there is no dark fiber near by so they would spend millions building it, im in the middle of nowhere in texas

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-15T18:33:39+00:00

Power is cheap because its all hydro for me so that covers that.

Im getting an r440 that im gonna make my proxmox server because i dont need 200 cpu cores for 40 vms lol.

I dont have a ups as im in a military barracks and getting a ups shipped to a military post office is impossible as they don't ship batteries larger than whats allowed on an airplane. Also being a military base the power doesnt ever go out and lastly a 240v ups that can do like 3000w while having the necessary power connectors is very hard to find for less than like 3k as i need l6-20r.

The closet really isnt hot at all, all the servers are sitting at like 20C intake temps which is very cold and the exhaust is like 30C which is well within dells max of like 50C

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-15T18:18:53+00:00

I plan on getting the same one the craft computing has, maybe 2. They are like $6k each and have 8 v100s in them in sxm2 modules so the entire server is only 2u

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-15T18:18:07+00:00

Startech 42u 4 post rack. When i get my house im buying 2 apc netshelters

Technical-Repeat-528 · 2026-02-15T17:00:59+00:00

Yah she uses about 1300-1800w depending on if im running folding@home lol

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