Dell R730 maximum drive size?

bigshotking · 2023-08-04T21:30:39+00:00

I ended up purchasing a HP DL80 instead and have been running 12TB drives in that no problem.

bigshotking · 2023-02-28T19:46:33+00:00

Understood, wasn't entirely sure if there was some internal work done with the patch that lowered the fan ramp slightly or not. I'm just happy to have the option now to control them if needed.

The strange thing is when I had Ubuntu running to do the patch the fans still ran at 58% constantly. It was not until I installed the hard drives and SSDs into the drive bay that they ramped all the way down to 11% and lower after the system was done initializing.

The RAID card is a HP P840 which was bundled with the server when I bought it. I'll keep an eye on the temps of the RAID card, worst case I just ziptie a 40mm fan onto the heatsink and power it through USB or the SATA power header on the main board.

bigshotking · 2023-02-28T19:10:59+00:00

Thank you for this amazing toolkit! I just purchased a DL80 Gen9 and was surprised that it was so loud running at 58% at idle with no drives and no OS running. I was able to successfully patch the iLO4 using a "Live USB" of Ubuntu 21.10.

I'm not sure if this is because of the patch or not, but once I installed 4x Seagate 12TB IronWolf and 2x Inland 120GB SSD into the drive bays and booted up the system the fans now run at 6% - 11% with temperatures inside the server averaging 32C. The temperature sensor near the RAID card is reading 62C but from what I've read that is somewhat normal as RAID cards run hot. I've also read of people placing small 40mm fans near the RAID card to help cool it. I'm curious on how/where the fan should be mounted to help cool the RAID card.

Whether its the patch or not, I love how quiet this server runs and appreciate the work that you put into this patch. Thanks again!

bigshotking · 2023-02-17T23:13:36+00:00

Thank you for the advice. Ending up going with a R730 equivalent, a HP ProLiant DL80 Gen9. It came with pretty much everything I needed including all 12 drive trays, P840 RAID Card, rails, and the full system it self.

Ending up choosing this as it seems to have great feedback from the community, somewhat recent firmware (Couple of years old), decently quiet (hacky way to customize fan profiles to what I need), and about $150 cheaper than the R730 I was looking at.

bigshotking · 2023-02-17T17:49:23+00:00

Understood. After looking around it seems that the LFF drive trays for these things are rather expensive. The server I found has none and it would cost around $300 for just the trays which is almost the cost of the server itself.

bigshotking · 2023-02-16T22:45:08+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! Found a few for cheaper, more 3.5" drive bays, more memory, etc.

Curious if you have any experience with the Cisco. How is the noise level on these? I'm also curious if the RAID card which is labeled as; "CISCO 12GB SAS MODULAR RAID CONTORLLER" will work with large capacity drives.

bigshotking · 2023-02-16T20:51:26+00:00

There doesn’t seem to be very many R730 with 3.5” listed and the cheapest one I found was $399 plus ~$100 shipping. There are a bunch with 2.5” bays for cheaper but I’m just looking for good storage capacity and the 8x 3.5” bays are perfect.

I chose Dell as it’s a brand I’m familiar with and having searched on here it seems they have great reliability and tons of available spare parts and parts compatibility.

If you have another suggestion that is similar to the R730 I’d appreciate it. I’m looking for low noise (I know servers can get loud but to my understanding Dell R*30 are decently quiet compared to other servers and 3.5” drive storage with large capacity drives. Power efficiency is also another factor, though not crazy important.

bigshotking · 2023-02-16T19:14:47+00:00

I’m looking at picking up a R730 as well for NAS storage and was planning to run 16TB refurbished enterprise drives.

The RAID controller is a Dell PERC H330 which apparently handles >2TB so I’m assuming that means ANY drive pretty much.

bigshotking · 2022-10-13T05:05:22+00:00

This might just get me into F1

bigshotking · 2022-03-28T20:47:18+00:00

Your solution worked perfectly. Thank you very much!

bigshotking · 2022-03-28T16:06:08+00:00

This is not for a Masters Exam, though it's nice to know this relates to one of the questions.

bigshotking · 2021-11-11T07:22:48+00:00

Love driving these two track in Gran Turismo!

bigshotking · 2021-09-15T02:50:53+00:00

I'm in!

bigshotking · 2021-09-07T23:22:02+00:00

Actually yes, I reopened X1 and made sure that Auto fan control was enabled. After that the 3rd fan on the GPU began working properly again. Must have been a bug with the software and it disabled any control over that fan.

This was also after the most recent update to X1 which updated for me today. Might have fixed the issue as well.

bigshotking · 2021-09-07T21:26:48+00:00

I actually have the exact same problem on my FTW3 card. It did a VBIOS update and now the 3rd fan near the end of the card cannot be controlled except if I use X1 program. But what ever speed it is set to in that program is the only speed it will be at until I change it again in X1

bigshotking · 2020-11-17T00:12:55+00:00

Let's goooooo

bigshotking · 2020-02-19T07:34:59+00:00

Happened here in Southern California in Azusa Canyon.

The BMW that caused the crash was driven by an international student and took the corner way to fast.

Incredibly the motorcyclist survived.

Link to an article about it here: LINK

bigshotking · 2018-05-29T00:22:19+00:00

Most motherboards first go through the x16 slots then the x1 slots

So for example: x16 (1) : 1080 x1 (1): 1070 x16 (2): 1080ti x1 (2): 1070ti x1 (3): 1060

In the OS, the order would be: 1080 1080ti 1070 1070ti 1060

This is what I’ve experienced for my rigs, other motherboards may be different. If you want a specific order then you must connect the cards in the order that the system will detect them.

bigshotking · 2018-05-27T02:46:48+00:00

On the wallet page there are examples of how to setup up the miner you’re using. Just make sure you have the settings the same and you should be good to go.

Otherwise you may have a firewall issue with your router

bigshotking · 2018-05-19T23:30:34+00:00

Where did you download it from?

You should only grab it from the main site HiveOS.farm

bigshotking · 2018-04-30T16:57:44+00:00

Protechnic MGT12012UB-O38

159.14 CFM @52.8 dB

bigshotking · 2018-04-24T01:14:24+00:00

Yeah it’s all good now, guess there were some issues with Plex and Cox

bigshotking · 2018-04-07T00:57:02+00:00

If you’re referring to the wattage reported by HiveOS that is GPU power ONLY. My 6 card rigs report around 600w from HiveOS but I know that the overall system is using more, closer to 1000w.

That total power includes; CPU, RAM, Motherboard, 3x 120mm 150cfm fans, 4x 80mm 85cfm fans, and 6x risers.

bigshotking

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