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Can anyone share how loud an R630 can be? I am planning on putting one in my closet.

worqas

i have an HP DL380 (similar size and form factor) and it gets QUITE LOUD when i put it under >10% cpu load... i mostly run it idle so i don't hear a small jet engine spin up every 5 minutes. realistically it probably compares to a vacuum cleaner, or maybe a small drone; it lives in my downstairs coat closet, and at full blast i can hear it upstairs in my bedroom. the whine is high-pitched and piercing.

2 extra notes - 1) it was longer than i expected, 36". 99% of racks (especially halfracks / quarters) i found were only 33" deep, i had to order a specialty longboi (newegg). 2) it gets hotter than i expected, cook-an-egg-hot under high load. i added a 10" thru-wall fan in my closet, still not really enough ventillation.

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net

left shoulder: what do you actually need all that compute for? homelab probably won't need 10% of that. do you own earplugs? do you have a spouse or roommate who might hate this? those hdds are probably DOA, gonna wanna replace them anyway...

right shoulder: its a steal, think of all the activities, buy it now!

I'm getting a R630 with 2x e5-2695 v4, 192gb ram and 6x900gb hd drives. All for $300. Should I go for it?

postmortum - i got hella good deal on it ($700 for 128gb / 40c) and what i really wanted was the 12x 3.5" drive bays; i am currently investigating other alternatives for retiring this machine (a 10-bay NAS + optiplex-sized compute nodes), i learned a lot but i am not buying any more of them due to the noise, size, heat, power usage; i dont want datacenter grade hardware in my house anymore