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I recently bought a dell r710 and I'm trying to put unraid on it. I was able to get unraid booted using the internal usb port but unraid is unable to see the 2 installed drives I put in the system. I've looked around and I've seen solutions where you have to go into PERC or the raid controller using ctrl+c or ctrl+r to configure the drives but nothing happens when I do that before the os starts. Also, I don't know if this matters, but the lights on the hard drive caddies are not turning on. They flash briefly on system boot but they don't turn on after that. I'd like to configure the array to JBOD so that unraid can handle the redundancy if possible. Thanks

I attached some pictures of my server that came in the mail today. Do you guys think I can salvage it? Is it safe to use those power supplies? Would I be able to rack the server with that bent plastic thingy on the front?

Hello, I'm looking at getting in to the world of servers and wanted to get a Dell PowerEdge R710 but the thing is that I quickly found that while the server is pretty dang cheep the HDDs for it are quite expensive. Would it be possible to just through standard SATA HDDs in place of the SAS HDDs? Thanks!

I'm having problems with a Dell Power edge R710, It was working with 2 quad cores and 40GB of ram. I then put two X5670 in it, and filled up all the dims with 4 GB server ram sticks, and now its just flashing, the little display is flashing, power button flashing, and HDD bays flashing, no beeping or anything, it's just turning on and then turning off. before I start taking it apart ram stick by ram stick does any one know what this could be? Heres a video (hopfully that works): DSCN3254.MOV

Afternoon! I have some question about home hosting for a Gmod server all the way up to Arma 3. Gmod: 64 Slots, Maybe 10 - 50 Players Arma 3: 54 Mods, 64 Slots, 30 - 64+ players One of the servers that I'm looking at is the Dell R710. And I know people say that you don't need a server to run a server. I would build a regular desktop with a lot of ram and space. But I find that the Dell R710 is pretty cheap now. I'm looking at one for around $200 US. And I'm looking at the Dell R610 Server too. If anyone could give me some suggestions that'd be just great! Specs: Two Xeon Quad Core E5507 @2.26Ghz Ram: 48GB DDr3 Thanks, Liam

Neweggbussiness.com has this server for $569. It seems to include 8 300gig 10k sas drives. Is this a good deal or is it a low price for a reason? Sorry, forgot to paste the link. https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9B-2NS-0008-0ZCM7

I came home today only to find that my Dell R710 home lab started to create a very noticeable buzz. I shut it down and I found that the buzz is coming from both of the 570w power supplies. I've had the server for a couple months and I have never had this buzz coming from it. Given that I sit about 6 feet away from it, the buzz is considerably loud. Attached is a video from my phone of the buzz itself. Should I be worried? Should I just let it be? Thanks in advance! Server buzz.mp4

Hi, I have a Dell R710. I am trying to tap into the DVD/TBU_PWR Port. This is a power port used for the DVD drive. I plan on using this for 2 low power SSD drives. I want to rewire this port but I cannot find the connector or the parts for it. I need a spare Male connector and the 4 pins that go in it. This is so I can wire my own up vs splicing wires. Please note this looks a lot like a CPU 4Pin connector, but it is much smaller. I can find the parts for the normal-sized 4-pin cpu connector but not this much smaller one. It's about 1/2 the size. I could just buy one of these, but I don't like how it is setup and would like to make a custom one,https://www.disctech.com/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-Internal-SATA-Power-Adapter-Cable-Assembly-for-Optical-Drive-9in-23cm-GP700- The Dell part is GP703 I only need the 4pin power connector on it and the pins that go in the connector. If anyone knows what this port number is or called, please let me know.

Hi I have 2x HP Micro Server N36L one with 8GB Ram and a (now) Broadcom Raid Controller can I use them for Freenas or other NAS Systems? I need just somethink as an "Hot" Backup. Thanks

Hey there, I'm new to using FreeNAS so bear with me if I'm making common mistakes that I haven't found in my research so far. I'm looking to set up a small home NAS setup using 4TB WD reds because of their value over 2 or 3TB variants. I'm planing to start with using 3 drives in RaidZ1, I'm aware that using this configuration is frowned upon as there is only one parity disk but the setup is just for home use and I want as much capacity for the money as possible, although it would suck to lose photos or documents stored on the machine. When I have the requirements and the budget I'll add another 3 drives to expand the pool. I'm currently looking at two different options from Bargain Hardware on Ebay, an R710 with a L5630 or an EMC Avamar with dual E5-2609s, the first of which I've been told is fairly good value. I'd love some input on these options or recommendations if possible. I'm aware the specific raid cards may not be able to be used as a standard SATA controller to allow software RAID through ZFS, so I'm planning to buy an M1015 to install instead. Any help or feedback on these choices would be greatly appreciated!

Hello, I have a Dell R710 with dual 6-core Xeons and 96GB of RAM. This is the first blade server I've ever worked with, and I'm not sure where to start as far as OSes are considered. I would like to use the server for Minecraft (just for my friends and I) and also if possible as a server to export my Adobe Premiere videos with as my PC only has 16GB of RAM and I hit that ceiling pretty often with any AfterFX intensive work. Is Windows server my best bet or Linux? Is it even possible to do both of these things? Thank you in advance.

Hey guys I'm planning a server for greater plex/converting work. Inthought over buying a dell r710 with 48gb ram and two x5560 cpus. Is it possible too put a tesla m2090 gpu into a dell server just like this or do I need some external adapter stuff to get the power to the card. I have read that the cards needs around 200w but the x16 slot in the server can't deliver this much power. Thx for some advice

I'm a looking to bay 2 Dell R710 servers to use for plex and VM The specs for server 1 are Dell R710 with 2 Intel Xeon E5530 processors @2.4 Ghz 32 GB Ram installed 6 x 750 Gb hard drives installed. Dual PS with cords the price is $150 The specs for server 2 are Dell R710 with 2 Intel Xeon X5690 processors @3.47 Ghz 72 GB Ram installed 6 x 4 Tb hard drives installed. Dual PS w/ cords the price is $250 is it worth it if not what is a good price for both of them

Hi everyone, I recently upgraded the Perc6 Raid controller in my Dell R710 to a H200 which I've flashed to IT mode. My current drive setup is: (2x) 1TB hard drives in RAID1 (1x) 2TB hard drive (1x) 8TB hard drive which I purchased from eBay at the same time as the H200 I can boot into Proxmox fine, and see all 4 disks. However, when I clicked "Initialize Disk with GPT" on the 8TB, I get "command '/sbin/sgdisk /dev/sdb -U R' failed: exit code 2". Also, when I try and use fdisk I get "fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error". I've also booted a Ubuntu live image and get the same error with fdisk. The drive was advertised as "new", but I guess it could be faulty. Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi! I will buy a R710 in the coming future and discovering the world of servers in my research for the best and worthy parts i should get. As we all know, ram comes in different sizes and speed and i see i have few options: PC3L-8500R ~ 1066 Mhz PC3L-10600R ~ 1333 Mhz PC3L-12800R ~ 1600 Mhz PC3L-14900R ~ 1866 MHz the price of the 1866 compared to the 1066 should be near 40% more. I searched on the internet to find something about differences but nothing better than i expected: the bigger frequency is the better. But how much better? Does anyone have a benchmark or something like this so i could compare the cheapest vs the most expensive? I know in games your gain would be of near 1% more but i`d like to know if is something noticeable even for a server.

I just got a Dell PowerEdge R710 that has a PERC 6i raid card in it. I'm trying to run Unraid and I noticed that the raid card doesn't support JBOD, which is needed for Unraid. Will this raid card work in the R710? I found all of the cabling for it, just not sure if it would boot and run correctly. https://www.ebay.com/itm/UNRAID-IT-Mode-LSI-9210-8i-SAS-SATA-8-port-PCI-E-6Gb-s-Controller-Card-FREENAS/142716276926?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

I've tried numerous times to flash my H200 to IT mode so I can use it in Unraid, but no matter what I do, it doesn't work. The server is a R710. I've followed these guides linked below. I've tried flashing it inside of the server, in my gaming rig and a combination of the two. The flash seems successful, but on boot, I don't see where it says I can go into the utility for the card and it doesn't show like it did before when it was doing its systems check. Unraid can't detect the raid card also. Also, I'm not using the internal storage PCIe port because it won't boot with that raid card. It says "Invalid card in internal storage port." Guide 1 Guide 2

So I recently purchased a Dell R710 with the following hardware: 2x X5560 2.80GHz Quad Core 64GB of DDr3 ECC ram 2x 300GB 10K 2.5" SAS drives Perc 6i integrated raid card It came with Windows Server 2016 Standard Evaluation installed on the SAS drive. But I wanted to install the OS on an SSD, so I bought a Samsung 970 NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB as well as an PCIe card to M.2 adapter. So my goal here is to install Windows Server 2016 Standard on the SSD. I purchased the windows key off of Bonanza and the seller sent me the key as well as a link for the download, (down.microsoft-oem.com/windows/en_windows_server_2016_x64_dvd_9327751.iso) So I burn that to a CD/DVD and try booting from that, it says boot failed. So I try attaching it to a USB, and that failed. I also tried using the CD/DVD as a USB one time then tried using it as a CD/DVD, neither worked. For the USB I tried both NTFS and Fat32 and neither worked. I also tried all of these both in the BIOS version and UEFI version of boot mode. I have run out of ideas so any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

In life there are those that learn best from mistakes others make. Then there are those that make mistakes even though they're trying to learn from other people's mistakes. Well I hope others can learn from my mistakes. I got caught up in one of those "no turning back now" sort of deals. I knew what I wanted but apparently didn't have a clue. Here are just a few things that tripped me up while buying a Dell R710. Feel free to chime in on other fun facts or tid-bits of information that would make it easier for people to put together their own Dell R710 server. Fun fact #1: Types of chassis There are 2 types of chassis you'll find for the Dell R710. The 6 bay chassis can house up to six 3.5" and looks like this... The 8 bay SFF chassis can house up to eight 2.5" and looks like this... It has been my experience that the 6 bay chassis is generally more expensive. Also it has been in my experience that most Ebay listings won't have all of the drive caddys. This is either because they simply don't include them with intent to sell them separate (typically more likely if you don't get any drive caddys or blank covers) or possibly because the server was not configured that way when the reseller got it (typically more likely if you get 1 or 2 caddys and the rest of the bays have blanks. Either way you can easily find these caddys on ebay for under $20 each for OEM or in most cases about $40 for an entire set of non branded units. Fun fact #2: There are TWO generation of motherboard! Generation 1 motherboards only support up to a 95 watt CPU. You can NOT run a 130 watt CPU in the board. If you install a 130 watt CPU it will give you a system halt message of "this cpu power rating is not supported" and you will not be able to progress further. The part number is found on a small white sticker under the fan tray. Gen 1 boards CAN run up to a 95 watt X5600 series processor as long as you update the bios (link http://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-r710_user's guide6_en-us.pdf). Part numbers for the Gen 1 board include YDJK3, N047H, 7THW3, VWN1R and 0W9X3 Generation 2 motherboards will support the 130 watt CPU. Part numbers for the Gen 2 board include XDX06, 0NH4P and YMXG9. The trick is finding out which motherboard a server has BEFORE you buy it... It isn't always as simple as having the little roman numeral II on the front of the chassis due to the ease at which a motherboard can be swapped...especially if you buy a server from one of the refurbishing businesses on ebay. So if it matters to you, ASK for the part number and make sure they say it is a gen II board especially if you're planning on running a 130 watt CPU. Check their feedback and return policy also. Fun fact #3: There are TWO versions of PSU There is the 570 watt PSU and an 870 watt PSU. The PSU have firmware and the server is intelligent enough to tell which ones are installed. The server will also be able to determine if the hardware you are running will exceed the rating of the power supply units installed. 870 watt PSUs are still cheap (around $20 each) so if you are planning on filling the HDD bays, running all the ram DIMMs, and high watt CPUs then it isn't a bad idea to pick the 870 watt model. Fun fact #4: There are TWO versions of CPU heatsinks The one you'll find in just about ever R710 is the humble part number TY129. It is an aluminum heatsink that even according to Dell will work on just about all processors. But there is a unicorn of heatsinks too! Legend has it that this heatsink was used on the mysterious Xeon X5698...a processor you won't find on arc.intel.com sounds like a fairy tail or something but apparently a 4.4GHz Westemere CPU actually exists! Here is a photo of the strange copper beauty that covers the beast. If you have a 130 watt CPU do you need that heatsink? Not according to Dell (Link 4th "note" down only says R610 and M710 not the R710 http://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-r710_user's guide6_en-us.pdf). Fun fact #5: Dell still has information and drivers on their website. Link http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/poweredge-r710/research I highly suggest you spend some time getting to know your server... it is a great tool to help you with getting the drivers you need, help you with an upgrade path, or any other general information about it. Fun fact #6: Dell RAID controller capacity gotcha The Dell Perc 6 and Perc 6i RAID controllers do not support disks greater than 2TB! Also mentioned controllers will not take advantage of 6Gb SATA and (though I haven't confirmed this) won't work with SSDs. According to what I've read, the H700 card will support up to 3TB disks, 6Gb SATA and will work with SSDs. But for the price of some of these things on Ebay you can get yourself an LSI controller with better features and more universal support... So if you want to run large disks on your new to you Dell...you will need to get a different RAID card...and if you have the Perc cards you'll need some new SAS cables too... Fun fact #7: A lot of re-sellers of Dell R710,610,410,etc specify it includes iDrac but won't have the dedicated iDrac port. For some reason Dell decided the iDrac remote management needed 2 daughter cards. One activates the option, the other is literally a daughter board with the RJ45 dedicated port you find on most youtube tutorials. If you do not have that port you end up using one of the four onboard NIC ports instead. Though that little card can be found on Ebay for about 7 dollars US if you want it...just don't count on those listings including the vFlash card. I hope some of this will help even one person to save them the headache I went through. Do not assume ANYTHING is compatible. I didn't discover fun fact 2 until I had X5680 CPUs in the R710 I bought and I'm staring at the "this cpu power rating is not supported" message blinking away on my screen. I screwed myself because I did not research if an X5680 would work with any old R710...I assumed. So off to Ebay I went again to find a Gen 2 board. Which is often easier said than done. Even when you do find a listing, they want as much for a stripped mobo as a-whole-nother server! Another server...another...about that...remember how I said it's hard to tell what generation board an Ebay listing will have? Yeah I bought another entire server that listed as a Gen 2 compatible with X5600 CPUs but was sent another Gen 1 board instead...hence the other part of fun fact 2. Luckily the seller took the server back and I was able to get my gen 2 server but the SFF model...After checking the listing again the "Gen 2" disappeared from the title and description...go figure. Had I to do this all over again I would not have bothered with the X5680's and gone with a lower watt 6 core Xeon with the gen 1 board and updated the bios to support it... Actually if I had to do it over again I wouldn't have bothered at all... it was because I bought a server with the intent to upgrade it and sunk $160 in X5680 CPUs that I continued and pushed ahead. I justified the purchase of the second server instead of just the board because it gave me another 24GB RAM and an arse load of spare parts...but in reality I now I have exactly the R710 I wanted when I started...and another server I kinda don't want....and an IBM boat anchor from the flintstone era I paid way too much for and don't know what to do with. But that's another story...I need a drink now...

I can provide more information if needed, but before I continue in research I wanted to tap into the minds of you all. I am contemplating taking a dell R710 (dual xeons, 56GB RAM, 6 2.5" HDD) and making it into a workstation. I've read rumors of the ability to convert the dual x8 PCI slots on this motherboard to accept a x16 GPU, but I'm concerned with compatibility. Would this be able to accept a graphics card via conversion, and run without melting with new (quieter) fans? It seems like it would be a cool project, and has very powerful components, but the main concern at this point is compatibility (I'll address heat / noise after I find out the compatibility). Has anyone ever tried this or seen it done? I need someone more knowledgeable in this area (Linus and this community seem to be great). Thanks in advance! I can provide more specifics if needed.

Do I really need a Raid Controller for an R710? Just hosting some game servers on it and a website. I just have no clue if I should use one. Thanks, Liam

Hello, I am planning to buy the dell PowerEdge r710 for $200. I have found one that I have my eye on and these are the specs: MPN PREMIUMR710(800) Processor 2 x Intel Six-Core 2.53GHz E5649 8MB 5.86GT/s 64-Bit Processors Memory Installed 16GB RAM Installed Hard Drives 2 x Dell 300GB 10K SAS 2.5" Hard Drives Drive Bays 8 drive bays, blanks not included Riser Board 2 x Riser Board with 2x PCI-e G2 x8 Slots Per Riser Board External Media Not Included Power Supply One Hot 570W Plug High Input Power Supply Backplane Backplane for 8 x 2.5" SAS or SATA Drives Ethernet Onboard Quad Gigabit 1000 Pro - 4 Ports Total Video Embedded Matrox G200 8MB Form Factor 2U Rackmountable RAID Controller Dell PowerEdge R710 PERC6i RAID Controller Card With Battery Back-Up Remote Access Card Dell iDRAC6 Express Included Front Bezel Not Included - Available In Store Rapid Rails Rail Kit is Not Included / Includes RackMount Ears Operating System Windows 2016 Server Evaluation Edition Only Software Software Media or Licenses are not included COA Not Included Service Tag Several- Available Upon Request Is this server a good deal and worth buying. I am planning to run plex and a few VM's for game server hosting, web hosting, and metasploitable. Link to listing: here I also want to add at least 2 3.5" HDDs but this server does not support 3.5" hdds. Should I buy an external enclosure or what? I am new into enterprise and server grade hardware and am looking for some advice. Thank you!

Hi! So I'm starting with a video project for my diploma which would contain C4D, Premiere Pro and CAD renders. I've got an older PC which I game with and can render all of these but then my system is pretty much locked up. I also checked for a new (near) state of the art system, but pricing foiled my plan. The system I've calculated would be around 3000 EUR (I'm from central europe btw). So I thought about an older, used server, dual xeons for cheap where I'd stab if possible like a 980ti or 1050 in it. I found a lead for a DELL PowerEdge R710 which would have 2 x Intel XEON X5675 @ 3.07 GHz 6 Core, 48 Gb RAM ECC 800 MHz, redundant PSU and fans for about 300 Euro. Since I haven't layed hands on a server ever before (closest encounter was to see them through tempred glass ) I'd like to get some input about my idea. In perspective, my current system would render a simple cut 1080p video from a 1080p source in about 35 - 40 minutes. Thats a 22 minute video. Time isn't that critical for me, but It'd definitely help if this system I've found would be as fast if not faster (hope dies last) as my main rig. Another kind of monkey wrench would be that this would - as I would guess from the picture - a 2U blade. I don't have a server rack, so I'd have to run it without if I couldn't stab it into a random pc tower case. I'd appreciate any input or recommodations. My budget would be about 650 - 700 EUR (Server and GPU)

Hey all, First time poster here. I plan to build a server which will primarily function as a NAS and secondarily (and maybe not ever but I want the option) be virtualized into 1-2 machines. I've done plenty of casual PC building, but as I wrap my head around building a server I see there are loads of things to worry about. Still, coming from the pc building I love value and customization. So, here are my options Build option (total cost of ~$1400): Xeon E5-2670 v3 12 core Processor (getting it used from ebay) Supermicro X10SRA ATX 2011-3 16GB DDR4 ECC 2133 RAM 4 Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB drives in Raid 10 1 more HDD like the above to back up the array nightly Raid Controller card (still undecided - please opine!) NORCO 2U Rackmount Server Case (thanks Linus for the recommendation!) 800W 2U-ATX PSU (not redundant!) Cheap video card Linux OS Buy Option (total cost of ~$950): This exact unit (they listed it for me) plus the HDDs that are not provided. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-Server-X5570-2-2-93GHz-QC-24GB-H700-iDRAC6-2PSU-6-Trays-/272285260762?hash=item3f65775bda:g:~owAAOSwnNBXbarY So with the Buy option I get redundant PSUs and "server grade everything" for about $450 less. However, I am buying 45nm CPUs that are about 4 years old, and used everything (assume 4 years used for all the parts). The rep said you can expect a 10 year life, so 6 years and this is perhaps shot, perhaps not. But then again, who knows what will happen with my build. Buying the server will not get me any support of any kind (outside of some 90 day B.S.), which from what I've read is one of the big reasons people buy servers. Pros to building: Quieter Newer parts More powerful Faster/More cores CPU Cons to building: More expensive Non-redundant/not hot-swappable PSU Pros to buying used: Cheaper Server grade parts through and through Redundant/hot-swap PSU Redundant CPU (negated slightly by the fact that buying another used CPU isn't hard/expensive) "Plug and play" (lets be honest, that's not a pro ) Cons to building: LOUD and HOT! (this is actually a problem for us, it's a small office) Old parts, old tech Used parts, so life may be shorter than 6 years Cons in common Have to troubleshoot dead hardware and replace it So, with all that written out - what do you suggest I do?

Hello everyone! Today I am writing this thread to ask everybody what I should do with two dell r710 servers. These servers are equipped with two Xeon E5-620 4 cores 8 threads a piece, 32GB of ram, and 2TB of storage each. I already have a hyper-visor loaded on one. Any ideas on how I can make money with these things? Another random thing I want to know is... Will my 4790k @ 4.6 be faster than dual E5-620's at 2.66?