**Dell PowerEdge T20 Mini Tower Server - Owner Thread**

My setup has now been running well for 6months since setup.

Love the machine, Very very quiet, Only noise is if a download happens over night the hdd's kick on so you can hear them slightly.

Although my RAID (mdadm) is at 96% usage, Not looking forward to adding another drive to that possibly take days to rebuild.

I use CoreOS for my OS, This allows me to run docker vms inside so i can just run what ever i want works really well. CoreOS comes with the mdadm pre-installed for software RAID also.

Which processor do you have Etheco?

NickTheBiz said:

If I can ask further detail then, can you tell me how you've got your drives setup?

I take it there's no hardward raid, so do you have just a bunch of disks and let ESXi handle it?

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That's exactly how I set it up. I've got no data that needs to be backed up so I'm not bothered about data loss.

NickTheBiz said:

Which processor do you have Etheco?

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I got the Pentium G3220 one.

So finally playing with it properly. I thought it didn't have hardware raid?

Created a Raid 0 array (Control I I think on boot up) and I'm away...

It's not hardware raid.

Built in software raid? I suppose it depends on the definition, I'd have thought that Bios level raid setup is hardware raid, no?

Apparently not - "A hardware RAID solution has its own processor and memory to
run the RAID application."

NickTheBiz said:

Built in software raid? I suppose it depends on the definition, I'd have thought that Bios level raid setup is hardware raid, no?

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no, normally 'cheap' onboard raid that setup within BIOS level is software (firmware) raid application.

I'm thinking of moving to one of these from a WD Mycloud.

Is it possible to remotely upload photos to this server like using the WD app for the Mycloud NAS?

Jamous said:

I'm thinking of moving to one of these from a WD Mycloud.

Is it possible to remotely upload photos to this server like using the WD app for the Mycloud NAS?

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Of course, but it would need something like DropBox to facilitate. Or a pant load of messing around otherwise.

Depends massively of course on what OS you put on it for starters.

NickTheBiz said:

Of course, but it would need something like DropBox to facilitate. Or a pant load of messing around otherwise.

Depends massively of course on what OS you put on it for starters.

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Look into Owncloud.
Its very powerful and easy to use.

Set mine up today. Xeon, 32gb ram esxi6.

Runs very quiet, well impressed. Might even get another.

Can anyone link me up to the processor for sale? Think I'll do the upgrade shortly.

This server is available now for £73 after cashback. Quite crazy.

Ace Modder said:

This server is available now for £73 after cashback. Quite crazy.

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Seen the Xeon version recently for around £208 after cashback which is pretty good.

Ace Modder said:

This server is available now for £73 after cashback. Quite crazy.

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never mind. found it

Contemplating replacing my N54L with one of these. How much faster is the Xeon version and is it worth the extra money? The main constraint with my N54L is the CPU of course. It's currently running Solaris 11 with four WD Red 3TB, two 40GB 2.5", a cut-down dual gigabit NIC and a M1015 HBA.

I've had a look around for deals on the T20 Xeon - best i've found so far is £319 inc VAT with £110 cashback. Anywhere cheaper?


Also, does anyone know what the typical power consumption is (at idle) of a T20 (either version) compared to an N54L?

Ordered one.. will see how it goes.

Power consumption is 30-35w but can go as low as 15w according to some (guide I read with tips on running linux on it here)