Subj : Re: Dell PowerEdge r730 s
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Dec 09 2024 19:17:00

 pF> Ping me on 20forbeers or poindexter@realitycheckbbs.org, I had a couple
 pF> of 720XDs that I repurposed. Might be able to answer questions on the
 pF> 730xd. They were great fun, I loved them.
 pF> 
 pF> If you do some digging around inside, you might have bootable 2 SD card
 pF> slots as well.

Will absolutely do. One of my biggest 'issues' is; yea I have 12 3.5" bays on the front backplane - and 2 2.5" on the rear. But all are managed by the Perc 730 Mini... I may buy another HBA/RAID card; but I'm playing around with how to pass bays to TrueNAS SCALE on the hardware level. I normally pass the entire RAID card, but in this machine it handles 12-18 bays. 

I've also been playing around with just passing individual drives to a VM as scsi1, scsi2, scsi3, etc in the Proxmox XXX.conf file - this isn't as clean as passing PCIe passthrough, but it might let me just pass 8 bays and use the others for other things.

I don't need to be bleeding edge - I intend to add a PCI3 NVME card for super-fast shares... the bulk of my storage is OK to be a little lagged.

But I wanna do it as best I can - I've decided to test for an EXTENDED period of time before I ever think about migrating my two other servers into the 730xd - I'm just stoked to be here.



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