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**Dell PowerEdge T20 Mini Tower Server - Owner Thread**
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Cards need a standard height bracket, which can usually be fitted to a low profile card
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Has anyone had issue with USB mouse and keyboard (and presumably other USB devices) completely disconnecting as if the USB ports have died? Just installed Win 7, some extra RAM and a GPU and it seems after some period of working the whole PC will have a moment and then the USB devices will completely die but PC remains running.
Only thing I can do then is hit the power button and it will go through shut down process but gets stuck on the 'shutting down..' screen and never actually turns off until I hold down the power button. Didn't have this issue with my ESXI install on it.
Cheers.
Only thing I can do then is hit the power button and it will go through shut down process but gets stuck on the 'shutting down..' screen and never actually turns off until I hold down the power button. Didn't have this issue with my ESXI install on it.
Cheers.
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Bought one of these just recently, decided i need to get things under one piece of hardware. It's great value for money.
I'm presumably going to be putting server 2012 R2 I have a code for, and then Virtualize everything from there of course.
I guess I'll be putting some kind of expansion card for more sata ports in there it seems.
I've also got a Silverstone PSU that I plan to put in this, so I can power more drives.
Am I correct in thinking i need this so i can use the after market PSU?
"24 to 8 Pin ATX Dell Optiplex 3020 7020 Power Supply Motherboard Adapter Cable"
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Anything else I should look out for?
//Edit: Or do I ghetto the PSU cables (is it really worth it). I guess a few people have installed graphics cards and crazy things in this i've seen, so someone must have some previous experience with this...
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I'm presumably going to be putting server 2012 R2 I have a code for, and then Virtualize everything from there of course.
I guess I'll be putting some kind of expansion card for more sata ports in there it seems.
I've also got a Silverstone PSU that I plan to put in this, so I can power more drives.
Am I correct in thinking i need this so i can use the after market PSU?
"24 to 8 Pin ATX Dell Optiplex 3020 7020 Power Supply Motherboard Adapter Cable"
described as:
Anything else I should look out for?
//Edit: Or do I ghetto the PSU cables (is it really worth it). I guess a few people have installed graphics cards and crazy things in this i've seen, so someone must have some previous experience with this...
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I hadn't really though about whether it will fit or not yet 
mine is standard atx so i'll get back to you as soon as my adapter arrives on a slow boat from the far east, so probably about a month...
mine is standard atx so i'll get back to you as soon as my adapter arrives on a slow boat from the far east, so probably about a month...![[RB]](/styles/overclockers/avatars/4.png){kind=avatar}
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Looking at the website:
https://plus.delltradetosave.com/gb/en/pages/promotions/qualifying
It would suggest it ended 3rd Feb. I'm sure it'll appear back again at some point as long as there's still stock to shift.
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Submitted my cashback last night, and got a confirmation email this morning 
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So my part arrived this morning and I fit a standard ATX PSU easy, mine was an old 500w silverstone one but it gives way more options than the OEM one, can't see why any standard PSU wouldn't fit really.
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If i bought something like the "Syba SATA III 8 Port PCI-E 2.0 Controller Card" which is using the Marvell 88SE9705 that would allow me to expand, and be compatible with everything right?
Sounds like a lot of ports i know, but i'll have having a few extra smaller physical drives that will have separate things housed on them rather than partitions. They won't all be used at once, so I don't see any bottlenecks, they just need to be accessible easy enough.
Sounds like a lot of ports i know, but i'll have having a few extra smaller physical drives that will have separate things housed on them rather than partitions. They won't all be used at once, so I don't see any bottlenecks, they just need to be accessible easy enough.
So my part arrived this morning and I fit a standard ATX PSU easy, mine was an old 500w silverstone one but it gives way more options than the OEM one, can't see why any standard PSU wouldn't fit really.
Thanks,
I got a Corsair 550w and the PSU motherboard adapter, all fitted and working great
Can anyone recommend a PCI-E sata card for my new T20? 4 port ideally, and would also like it in the lower x16 slot (I think) so I've got room for a passively cooled GPU in the future.
Also is there an easy way to find an extra drive cage? I already have 4x3tb 3.5" migrating from my N40L that are nearly full.
Also is there an easy way to find an extra drive cage? I already have 4x3tb 3.5" migrating from my N40L that are nearly full.
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I kept an eye on ebay and picked up a Fujitsu branded LSI 9211-8i for a good price - with the SATA to SAS cables it'll handle 8 drives for you.
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Yes, I've had this exactly. You need to go into the BIOS and disable 'VT for Direct I/O'
If you need a SATA card, i'd avoid silicon image and marvel chipsets, at least if you are going to use Unraid.
I had a silicon image chipset, 4 port SATA card in my T20 and Unraid was throwing up iommu errors until I disabled VT-D in bios. I recently swapped to a cartd using the ASMEDIA ASM1061 chipset and it works perfectly.
As for adding extra drives, if you google "Orico drive cage dell t20" It is pretty easy to fit one if you don't mind adding 2.5" drives
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Yep, been running on mine since early Jan with one issue. This was completely losing network connection on a single port Intel NIC which required the whole server to be restarted to correct. I've since stopped using the card and all has been well
Really tempted to get one of the T20's to run along side my synology nas which will be mainly used for backups. Im looking at putting in 3x3tb wd drives and running esxi as the base perhaps of a small ssd. I have just a couple of questions if i may...
1. Would it be worth considering the T30 over the T20 now?
2. I want to create one large volume from my 9tb not sure on raid yet, was looking a stable bit drive pool. How would i go about doing this through esxi?
3. I want to use a linux server to host my plex server, i currently have all my media stored on the nas but want to move it to the new server. What would be the best way for plex to access the media? Create one big VM that could hold the server and media files or just create a data store and have the plex server point to that?
Thanks all
1. Would it be worth considering the T30 over the T20 now?
2. I want to create one large volume from my 9tb not sure on raid yet, was looking a stable bit drive pool. How would i go about doing this through esxi?
3. I want to use a linux server to host my plex server, i currently have all my media stored on the nas but want to move it to the new server. What would be the best way for plex to access the media? Create one big VM that could hold the server and media files or just create a data store and have the plex server point to that?
Thanks all