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Can anyone share how loud an R630 can be? I am planning on putting one in my closet.
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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.
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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
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I'm getting a R630 with 2x e5-2695 v4, 192gb ram and 6x900gb hd drives. All for $300. Should I go for it?
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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!
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😂...and look, $eth just went up.
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Also, I'll just host all the mini apps that I will make one day in my closet, I could even run a Farcaster node. Why not?
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im not gonna talk you out of it, i love crazy homelab projects, and i am happy to invest in a lil hardware if it means i learn something new one thing i have learned after years of trial and error, however, is to segregate my workloads by their demand profile. i have a bunch of "dumb lil homelab" stuff, it runs from 3x thinkcentre nodes in a k3s cluster and a single nvme disk. i still keep a few selfhost services on a remote VPS - can't afford for my password manager to crash just because i update homeassistant. and i use the DL380 exclusively for blockchain stuff and domestic heavylifting, which thrashes disks and crashes offten... for me, uptime + reliability need to be a key focus in my homelab projects - if i crash my recipes app / jellyfin / home assistant, due to tinkering with blockchain stuff, it blocks my grocery shopping / daily lighting automations / watching TV, until i have time to go be a sysadmin again ... i can't afford that, i want to enjoy these services, not be beholden to them!
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