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unRAID on Dell PowerEdge R520

Yes, it works. It’s not only possible, but also easy. After reading many blogs that advertised the famous “flashing the H310 card to IT mode”, I was able to install and run unRAID on my R520 just by using the… Continue Reading →

Dell T320 upgrade PERC to H710

Like many of home lab owners out there, I have some servers and I like to make the most out of them. One of the upgrades I made to my Dell T320 was the RAID card. While H310 is not… Continue Reading →

Dell R320 review and noise levels

I have a Dell T320 tower server and I love it. It does storage related roles: VEEAM backup, file server, PLEX server and it’s ready for more. The CPU is a modest Xeon E5 2403 quad core, but it’s enough… Continue Reading →

RAID 10 vs RAID 5 with four hard drives

I wanted to set up a RAID array in my server, a Dell T320 with PERC H310 and four Seagate Constellation ES.2 SAS drives 7200 rpm 3 TB. So, like many of IT guys out there, I started googling. I… Continue Reading →

A great server for a home lab: Dell T320

The newest addition to my home lab is a Dell PowerEdge T320. A great server from Dell’s 12-th generation. It has a 6 core / 12 threads Xeon E5 2320 CPU, 48 GB of RAM and 4 x 3 TB… Continue Reading →

Consumer SSD in an enterprise-class server

Yes, I can confirm that you can install a consumer class SSD in your old lab server, even though manufacturer says you can’t. To be more specific, I installed a Kingston A400 and a Crucial MX300 SSD’s in Dell R610… Continue Reading →

Reduce fan speeds on Dell R610/R710

So, I have a couple of servers in my home lab. Two of them are Dell Poweredges. One R610 and one R710. Good machines for sysadmin’s test lab. They are not noisy, by server standards. Contrary to my initial expectations,… Continue Reading →

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