This is for anyone who feels compelled to find trays on ebay. Firstly, I have already bought some that showed up after I recorded the video(as I mentioned in the description...). To anyone referencing this chart www.indx.co.uk/xserve/ , I do not believe what it says about 2009 compatibility. He clearly only owns a 2008, and even the drives that came with the 2009 are list as only "Probably compatible". If you are looking for some drive trays for your own 2009, try these: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050430.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X607-4364.TRS5&_nkw=607-4364&_sacat=0 I was able to put a 2TB SATA drive in those.
@adam78687 жыл бұрын
mine is a late 2006 xserve, the serial port is for communications with the ups and for a command line
@walterb.92907 жыл бұрын
Adam7868 i
@dashtesla6 жыл бұрын
Also I think the IO there should be changed the PCI could take fibre channel and ethernet for iSCSI and he could setup the storage remotely rather than having local pool.
@AdamLop3146 жыл бұрын
Yup +1 this is exactly what that is Modern serial ports are now Ethernet ports basically Gj Adam
@JarrodCoombes6 жыл бұрын
The issue you are running into is a LBA support issue. That is the 48bit that they were talking about online. You would need a firmware update to be able to use >2TiB drives, which upgrades you to 64-bit LBA support. But it gets more complicated than that. Once you have the hardware that supports >2TiB via 64bit LBA you then need an OS that supports partitions greater than 2TiB via GUID partitioning, thankfully most OSes have caught up and support this, but can be an issue in older systems (Windows 7 or earlier, Ubuntu 14 or earlier etc). Most people get caught up on the OS issue, and never realize that they are dealing with a hardware issue. O, lastly, using the SATA from the optical probably won't solve your issue, it more than likely not to support anything bigger than 2TiB. You'd need a PCIe hard drive controller with it's own BIOS to get bigger drives internally. Though a external drive that is bigger than 2TiB would probably work fine, as the USB to SATA bridge it uses would handle the 64bit LBA support.
@jangelelcangry6 жыл бұрын
+ Jarrod Coombes "Most people get caught up on the OS issue, and never realize that they are dealing with a hardware issue." That reminds me when support tells you to update your drivers so your computer can post.
@armpitdew6 жыл бұрын
48bit LBA supports addressing up to around 128PB (binary) or around 144PB decimal. This would be a problem with 32bit LBA limitations in the controller.
@aayt027 жыл бұрын
Druaga2 confirmed.
@kennysboat44326 жыл бұрын
ikr
@MrVitalic855 жыл бұрын
He must be his brother or a relative , they talk almost the same way.
@ScienceAlliance5 жыл бұрын
accurate
@RQMImpact3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@helloimash4 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this in 2021 (look, I dunno... okay?) and cracking up laughing every time you do the "chhrr" radio noise yourself. Love it.
@johnDingoFoxVelocity6 жыл бұрын
There is a limited size you can use with certain xserves the drive sizes are as follows. 1. 1x 80 gig hard drive 2. 2x 80 gig hard drive 3. 1x 120 gig hard drive You are limited by the firmware of the mac efi.
@johnDingoFoxVelocity6 жыл бұрын
And the sizes increase to a max of 2tb
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
@John Dingo-Fox: Yeah, I think you’re talking about the earlier generation Xserve G5 there. The 2009 model here takes up to 2TB drives (but that’s the limit).
@johnDingoFoxVelocity3 жыл бұрын
@@stevearkwright yep
@Mikeywil00036 жыл бұрын
that serial port is likely to be for a UPS. Tons of UPS units used serial ports up until recently. Some older switches also use a serial port to configure them.
@HarmonicaMustang6 жыл бұрын
The redundant power supply is an optional extra. The 2 additional drive bays are an optional extra. Sounds like Apple to me.
@SenileOtaku6 жыл бұрын
Well, my IBM X3200 has 4 front-load SATA bays, but only 2 drive rails. And I think the only reason it had two rather than one was it may have been configured for RAID 1 (I wiped the original 80G drives 7 or 8 years ago). And as an HMC you would have thought it would have included the RSA II, but didn't have that either.
@nickwallette62016 жыл бұрын
Servers are typically ala-carte. There are some Apple-isms in this product for sure, but the optional redundancy is not really one of them. What if you use a SAN? Or need DC supplies?
@bdhale345 жыл бұрын
@@nickwallette6201 The main applism being no support for hard drives even as large as the ones low end budget consumer PCs from 2006 can use.
@stevearkwright4 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Hale: Technically, that’s not specifically an ‘Appleism’ as the firmware isn’t theirs - it’s actually an Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), so it’s Intel’s fault for failing to tweak and publish further updates to the firmware to allow larger hard drive capacities than 2TB (for 6TB total). What *is* an Appleism is that Apple were guilty of the same laziness producing more firmware updates for the Xserve RAID arrays: maximum IDE drive capacity was originally 500GB, then 750GB with a firmware update - yet they never did any more after that, which is really annoying. I know the firmware is proprietary (for both Xserve + Xserve RAID), but you would have thought that some bright programmers somewhere would’ve taken a previous firmware update apart then programmed and tested a new one that would give these fantastic machines the ability to use hard drives of any size. After all, OS X’s Disk Utility doesn’t seem to care about hard drive size, so why would the firmware?
@jaguarke0695 жыл бұрын
Gotta love that fan noise!
@SudosFTW6 жыл бұрын
So what about about a 2x m.2 to PCIe card? that might be a bit better off down the line.
@nathanhamman4186 жыл бұрын
While more expensive, you can actually get a 4x m.2 card i think its made by asus and its a 16x so it has plenty of bandwidth
@Hacker22ify6 жыл бұрын
did you format that 5TB drive as GPT or MBR since MBR cant format larger than 2TB
@superslammer6 жыл бұрын
He said in the video once, that it was showing a GpT partition.
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
Well, I think that’s where you’ve hit it - IIRC, the Xserve (even this final generation model), only accepted up to 2TB capacity.
@zizzu5496 жыл бұрын
Will it fly at some point?
@Deadhog_Rage6 жыл бұрын
if this is druaga2 and druaga1 is... a channel then who's druaga... ...0?
@beenisweenis31865 жыл бұрын
WHO IS IT TELL ME REE
@DaveMelton6 жыл бұрын
Loved the additional commentary. It was awesome!
@tyttuut6 жыл бұрын
I have a very similar external drive, and when I pulled out the drive, it was also a black drive. Neat!
@digital0ak6 жыл бұрын
The serial port is a common interface on racked equipment. They tend to be my preferred way to connect.
@IsoMacintosh6 жыл бұрын
It also surprisingly appears on modern motherboards, my Z370 am4 mobo has serial but it's a header instead of an actual port.
@KOSMOS1701A6 жыл бұрын
I can feel the fan sound in my brain!
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
That’ll freshen things up!
@423FGFDFHFHV5 жыл бұрын
The drive trays from G5 will work with 2000 and 9 Xserve.
@CommodoreFan647 жыл бұрын
Damn that thing is loud, If I had this in my house my g/f would have a shit fit because of all the noise, so my home network just has a USB 3.0 3.5in 2TB WD Green drive setup attached to my D-Link N Wireless router lol! Edit: to note I've personally have never had any issues with WD Green drives, but I guess I've just been lucky.
@arranmc1826 жыл бұрын
have you not tried partitioning the lager driver on anther system then popping it back in the server to see if it can see multiple partitions as you could just make 2 x 2GB & 1 x 1GB partitions.
@AmanOU2be4 жыл бұрын
"I don't live the Mac Life." (Buys a used enterprise grade server)
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I felt a tad ashamed for him when he said that: it’s a dreadful thing to confess. Even worse when you’re about to lay hands on the 2009 ultimate generation Xserve with top-of-the-range dual processors (the fastest Apple provided for this machine). If you’re not a Mac person, don’t say so. Pretend instead. Jeezus.
@hammersamatom80556 жыл бұрын
48-bit limit would limit the storage to 256 TB. Same with modern memory in processors. The 2 TB limit actually seems to be a BIOS limitation of ye olden days of BIOS and early UEFI implementations.
@armpitdew6 жыл бұрын
you are forgetting to mutliply by the sector size of 512 Bytes.... 48-bit limit is 128PB
@hammersamatom80556 жыл бұрын
@@armpitdew Yea, you're right. Forgot about sector size. I was thinking RAM when I did the math. Thanks for the correction!
@IcicleFurry6 жыл бұрын
your server is louder than our recovery power mamager.
@dorinxtg6 жыл бұрын
Same problem is happening on old IBM/HP servers. It's the RAID controller which cannot accept any disk bigger than 2TB. You might want to remove your USB 3.0 card and insert a good LSI card, make sure to have a long Mini SAS cable to connect from the card to the backplane.
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
THAT is an excellent suggestion and sounds perfectly logical. Have you (or anyone else) ever heard of this being attempted? Would *love* to know!
@vladnex10526 жыл бұрын
Call Linus Just make sure he doesn't drop it
@lucasberredooo6 жыл бұрын
VladNex LOL
@deunicorn6 жыл бұрын
Haha
@solarstrike335 жыл бұрын
LTX foreshadowing...
@MarkParkTech6 жыл бұрын
Serial ports are extremely common in the datacenter. Especially when it comes to networking gear. It would actually be strange if it didn't have a serial port.
@moth.monster7 жыл бұрын
Wow! That's a lot like the old server hardware I'm currently using as a main tower pc rig because it was cheap on ebay is, spec wise. Cool!
@sparkie55716 жыл бұрын
I'm finding it extremely trivial to install Linux on my 2008 (A1249) Xserve but you seem so boot to it no problem. Could you guide me on how to do so?
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
If something is extremely trivial, that means there’s nothing to it. Check your install media: I’ve a horrible feeling that, even though the Xserve 2008 is 64-bit, the boot EFI is 32-bit. Really, though, try Linux Mint (latest version), 64-bit, Cinnamon, taking specific care that your DVD/USB isn’t corrupted or formatted incorrectly. Good luck!
@binaryguru6 жыл бұрын
Serial port would be used for Out-of-Band access. For example, have a dial-up modem attached so be able to access and diagnose problems even when the network equipment has failed.
@RGD-Games6 жыл бұрын
dang dude, No redundancy? id never risk putting my previous data on a single drive with no Mirroring...
@chief88867 жыл бұрын
so, this may be a dumb question, but why is does the xserve only read a maximum of 2tb drives?
@eduardoavila6467 жыл бұрын
Donek yt Its related to its chipset i think, it cand adress more than that. Just like some pentium 3 computers that cant get more than 1gb of ram or more than 40gb hdd
@CoolFire6666 жыл бұрын
It's fairly common for older SATA controllers to not support drives over 2T.
@griffin80626 жыл бұрын
Because the server uses MBR by default which has a maximum of 2TB
@superslammer6 жыл бұрын
stop saying its a GPT limit. Its not. Unlike MBR that limits each partition to only 2TB in size, each partition in GPT can hold up to 2^64 blocks in length (as it is using 64-bit), which is equivalent to 9.44ZB for a 512-byte block (1 ZB is 1 billion terabytes). (From wikipedia)
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
It’s an EFI Firmware limit. Done at a time when drives larger than 2TB didn’t exist.
@rodriguesl19477 жыл бұрын
12:00 AND THIS, IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND [XSERVE NOISE]
@MarkParkTech6 жыл бұрын
I know it's been nearly a year, but 4TB 2.5" SSD's from Samsung are just now becoming relatively affordable. They should be pretty close in price to what that 2TB drive would have cost in 2017. They've got bigger ones coming soon. I would recommend holding out for about 3-6 more months unless you're nearing capacity already.
@DyoKasparov6 жыл бұрын
Oh man I love that old Seagate logo
@FennecTECH6 жыл бұрын
you have no idea how useful a serial console is in a server setting. we pass a TTY out to all those ports and use a netbook to run a terminal emulator.
@AronBezzina3 жыл бұрын
I realise this was a few years ago, however, if you still use the server my I suggest trying a server raid controller and or a NAS setup in iSCSI mode
@ThePressurizer6 жыл бұрын
Wait a minute, is that a wacom tablet to your right? Are you an artist as well as a tech-wiz? I daren't believe it!
@eabernardes6 жыл бұрын
I have a Dual Xserve 2009. What is the biggest processor I can put? Xeon X5570?
@griffin80626 жыл бұрын
X5690
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
Someone may have even put in a better/later pair of 6-core Xeon’s than the X5690 by 2021!
@eabernardes3 жыл бұрын
@@stevearkwright Obrigado
@HeffeJeffe782 жыл бұрын
Almost all 1U servers from every manufacturer have serial ports for remote (headless) access to non-GUI setup, recovery, etc. Apple uses the serial port in a similar manner, giving you a BSD tty on the port for system management without a GUI. It's not for any other purpose.
@TheDecguy6 жыл бұрын
To complete the insanity maybe get an old XRaid to go with the server. Lots of room for additional drives. Just kidding but I do love the old XServe.
@McCuneWindandSolar5 жыл бұрын
I have a xserve but i'm not much of an apple fan. I got mine gave to me. would like to find a mother board that I can use the processors in. and replace the motherboard with a mother board to use windows based OS on.
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
Ah. Replacing the Xserve logic board with another intended for Windows (or any other OS), has never been done successfully. However, why go to all that trouble? Xserve will happily boot into Windows, Windows Server, Linux or any UNIX system.
@XeonProductions6 жыл бұрын
reminds me of my storage server, it's as loud as like 5 hoover vacs running at once.
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
Most are like that. In a big server room, it doesn’t matter - you send people in with special noise-cancelling headphone sets with built-in microphones.
@hmmmyes69346 жыл бұрын
is this druaga1's xserve?
@BIGTONE-lc4vd2 жыл бұрын
What I have researched is most of the time only a 2tb will work in the xserve however there is some type of hack that will allow 3tb per bay. still doing research on that
@davidknoll2 жыл бұрын
That thing is gonna take off
@bluef1sh9266 жыл бұрын
12:03 iSiren - an air ride siren solution for your company, from Apple
@C4FF31N36 жыл бұрын
My desktop computer is built off a dell workstation from 2014, and not only does it still have serial, it has ps2, and a floppy controller
@jarhead53545 жыл бұрын
It is not the formatting of the drive. You will find the larger drive will work, you need to change the jumper on the drive to adjust from SATA3 to SATA2 reporting. Toshiba's site should have the jumper config for this adjustment.
@MaximNightFury6 жыл бұрын
Firewire isn't just an apple thing... My HP laptop has a mini Firewire 800 port
@electrohacker4 жыл бұрын
2.2 Tb limit just like the old LSI controllers
@MikheilGhvinianidze6 жыл бұрын
I am surprised that you owned the server, knew how to use Linux, and at the same time you did not know about Western Digital's Black drives. How the hell! WD is the only brand that I trust when it comes to mechanical storage. WD's Black line is not really recommended for 24/7. For 24/7 Operation WD RED(NAS) is recommended, or the Purple(Surveillance), or the Gold(what ever the Enterprise means). I personally would not run WD Black without fan blowing on it.
@talos866 жыл бұрын
I use an 1Tb WD black in 24/7 beside my m.2 Evo 960. Its a 10 years old, sata2 modell. During its ten year of service, i never experienced any issue. In 10 year i blew up 4 Samsung HDDs and 2 Seagate. Not a single WD. I have 2 Green and a Blue too.
@runninggames7716 жыл бұрын
Yeah that's not going to make any difference unless your running this in a real data center. A wd black will work fine for 24/7 in his home use. The fans in that server blow plea ty of air over the HDD.
@BIGTONE-lc4vd2 жыл бұрын
what adapter are you using for ssd in your drive sled?
@TrialMacameau4 жыл бұрын
If it's on a server, it's not really needed to put a Jumper to tell the drive it's a Master or a Slave drive... System will detect basically any drive if there's no Jumper in there.
@ferrari2k3 жыл бұрын
I am a bit confused as to why you would set up a S-ATA drive like that in the first place... They are 1 to 1 connections, there is no master/slave like back in IDE days,...
@TrialMacameau3 жыл бұрын
@@ferrari2k Modern systems I meant... old systems I can understand it but modern systems don't need a jumper because they are all connected via a SATA port on the motherboard.
@VSigma7256 жыл бұрын
Hey, I finally found something louder than my Power Mac G5!
@nathanhamman4186 жыл бұрын
The WD black is only really surpassed in performance by the gold drives, though red and purple have higher durability
@LadislavAlexa6 жыл бұрын
For drives larger than 2TB you need update SATA/SAS controller firmware. :-)
@thysonsacclaim6 жыл бұрын
Serial ports are still common on servers.
@ducks40396 жыл бұрын
Xserve does allow hot-swappable drives ;)
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I noticed that. Hot-swapping Xserve drives in OS X Server is standard practice. Perhaps he didn’t know how to do that in Ubuntu?
@svinye55457 жыл бұрын
A friend gave me an old ibm server . the only problem with it is that some capacitors have popped and the two power supplies are dead.(plus scsi harddrives might be dead)
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
That’s friends for you. Replace the capacitors, pick up power supplies off eBay, good to go. Suggest installing latest version of Linux Mint to see what’s going on with it. Good luck!
@MirkWoot6 жыл бұрын
haha.... i was thinking.. that isn't too loud.... ok.. YEP, it is.
@walterb.92907 жыл бұрын
Can you tell me what USB 3.0 PCIe card you have in there that actually works ? I found a few but the all have a power connector on it. They don't seem to work. Thanks !
@TechTangents7 жыл бұрын
This is the one I used: amzn.to/2nEfDip Keep in mind I'm using linux not Windows or Mac, so the driver situation is different.
@walterb.92907 жыл бұрын
Thanks !!!
@AO5546 жыл бұрын
May I ask how you did that MOTD on your startup? I like that
@FastDeathbycat7 жыл бұрын
What are you running to get the login message with the drive map? It's cool stuff.
@TechTangents7 жыл бұрын
It's my own custom login message. I like to have something more informative in there.
@PiddeBas7 жыл бұрын
You can just add any command or text you want to the end of your .bashrc file, and it'll show up when you login
@David-wh8zs6 жыл бұрын
What's about that wacom related script? Btw: you don't have to have root privileges to reboot from the local console, only from SSH.
@Gartral6 жыл бұрын
hey akbkuku, I stumbled onto your channel from The 8-Bit Guy's channel, random vid recommendation from KZbin! Anyway, the MBR (Master Boot Record) limit is 2TiB, so that's something to watch for, the GPT (GUID (Globally Unique IDentifier) Partition Table) limit is.... lots more... I can't remember off the top of my head... so you're running into issues with the kernel in Ubuntu Server not liking your GPT drives because... well.. I'm not sure really. I'd have to get with you and have you run a few commands to identify the underlying issue, but my suspicion is that the kernel isn't configured correctly to handle large-format HDDs because it was installed on a non-GPT formatted drive... this can be corrected for but is a mild pain! reply here if you decide you want to message me and I'll help out!
@nickwallette62016 жыл бұрын
The 2TB limit is from 32-bit LBA. The ATA spec defines it as 48-bit, but nobody uses 48-bit integers so a lot of software / drivers / controllers truncated the address down to 32-bit rather than extending it to 64-bit. 2^32 * 512 (byte sectors) = 2TB I have a USB 2.0 IDE/SATA interface that can't read >2TB drives even though my Linux kernel can. A later USB 3.0 model of the same product can read then fine. So it could be the SATA controller on the Xserve, or the controller's driver, or the kernel. But if it's a recent release (last 5 years or so), I would blame the hardware first. Especially if it mounts large USB disks without issue.
@MrVitalic856 жыл бұрын
Is akbkuku druaga brother? They both have similar voice.
@teh_supar_hackr6 жыл бұрын
What do you use your server for, and how long have you had it?
@TrialMacameau4 жыл бұрын
Been a while I have watched this video and I noticed something concerning server hardware : Some Drives don't need a jumper for Master/Slave hence why you wouldn't be able to use the full 5tb of drive and resorted to use the 2tb WD Drive
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
That’s not the reason. It’s down to the 2009 Xserve firmware. Drives larger than 2TB didn’t exist when it was introduced.
@WaimateTV6 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the inside of a plane taking at the start
@dskehn6 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a fighter jet!
@LastGunslingerTull2 жыл бұрын
I know this is late, but you can cheat a little with the drive bays. Take out the drives, and very carefully cut a slot through the back plate large enough for a SATA or SAS connectors, and get either a PCIE SAS HBA for it, or a SATA PCIE with 3 or 5 slots. Take a 3.5in sata or sas or 2 2.5in SATA or SAS drives and hot glue 4 rubber stoppers on the bottom of each drive, then mount the drive inside the slot and push the cables through the hole you cut. Get WD Gold or Ultrastar drives, they'll last the rest of your life.
@Butterchicken-v9r5 жыл бұрын
You seem to know a lot about these would be good to be in contact. I can’t get mine to detect more memory and I know it’s working
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
Re-seat your memory chips and make sure they’re the correct kind for your server.
@adrianmardianto76814 жыл бұрын
Server playing C Major Scale with their fans
@clayhudson88926 жыл бұрын
why don't you use nvme pcie ssd's?
@nucflashevent Жыл бұрын
It's too bad the Xserves never found their niche. I think Apple made a mistake by never focusing more on "Mac OS X Server" as a separate OS. I honestly couldn't see them ever being ever to displace Linux for a myriad of reasons (and good reasons I should add) BUT they could have given "Windows Server" a run for its money...but seeing as how Windows Server really is a niche in itself, I'm better Apple really just couldn't be bothered to try and move from 3rd place to 2nd place knowing they'd never be in the 1st ("1st" being Linux, etc.)
@nosch436 жыл бұрын
most servers do the fan speed test at boot, my dell server does the same thing
@nosch436 жыл бұрын
actually I typed that too soon.
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
No, you’re quite right. They do. It’s part of the runtime diagnostics.
@giantm23236 жыл бұрын
the sound at boot at 13:00 reminds me of the monolith scenes from 2001
@Redspl6 жыл бұрын
idk if someone suggested this, but you can get an mSATA->SATA adapter and route it to the second bay! :3
@dum_cat6 жыл бұрын
How about about 14TB segate drive
@wskinnyodden5 жыл бұрын
2tb hard limit on efi bios...
@faustodeleon29376 жыл бұрын
can i put a gpu and play?
@nilswegner28816 жыл бұрын
fausto De leon sure, but why would one want to do that? This computer is not meant to be used as a gaming machine but as a powerful server that can run things way beyond gaming. So why waste all this power and play games on it. For gaming you can buy a gaming machine. The Xserve is also way to overpriced to do this
@seamusmac7772 жыл бұрын
I'm slightly disappointed! I was hoping this might have been a G5 Xserve! Still a cool video though!
@joen18356 жыл бұрын
Use parted, fdisk has a 2tb limit.
@ferrari2k3 жыл бұрын
Doesn't matter if the drive cannot be recognized by the hardware. This sounds like a hardware problem to me. 2.2TB limit :)
@SanAltGaming7 жыл бұрын
Aaand of course the storage controller in these is apple proprietary so it's not like you can upgrade it. You could try getting a used SAN storage device if you are really serious about your storage. Oh, and if you want your server to boot normally while the external drive is missing you could remove it from fstab and use a cron job that runs at every reboot to mount it. Not best practise, but your whole server is not best practise so that shouldn't be a problem. ;-)
@kcinplatinumgaming25986 жыл бұрын
I used to work inside server rooms but never heard them being that loud lol sort of ear popping
@stevearkwright3 жыл бұрын
If you’ve ever run Sun Microsystems hardware, the Xserves were almost equal in terms of decibels. Not a problem in a server room/datacenter though - that’s what you expect.
@hanro506 жыл бұрын
You could try adding a file server to this
@cmdudes96846 жыл бұрын
11:45 How to wake up the neighbours with your PC
@benmmaddog6 жыл бұрын
how do you have your server mounted ?
@TechTangents6 жыл бұрын
It just sits on a shelf
@ThisOLmaan6 жыл бұрын
the hell does it do???
@danieldegeorges99937 жыл бұрын
Was that druagas from the video where u Skype in lol
@HuntersMoon786 жыл бұрын
My Dell Precision 490 Workstation can get a bit noisy but not that damn loud.
@LoganDark43576 жыл бұрын
Is that a custom welcome message? Can I have it? :P
@hikaru-live6 жыл бұрын
Maybe you could have gone NVMe on this. 512GB NVMe SSD + 6TB SATA HDD in Fusion Drive makes a very snappy machine with a lot of storage. The processors can also be upgraded to something like dual X5680, ditto the RAM to 96GB or so. The MXM graphics card can be upgraded to a laptop RX 560 and receive support from latest macOS, including macOS Mojave after an installer modification.
@ypoora12 жыл бұрын
How do you get 5680's in there? The firmware doesn't support 5600 series Xeons.
@alexthemorgan Жыл бұрын
@@ypoora1 flash 5,1 firmware
@MrLordschaft7 жыл бұрын
The cooling Sounds like the AMD Stock CPU cooler... Idea for another Video: Decreasing noise from the xserve.
@TechTangents7 жыл бұрын
Aside from liquid cooling with externally mounted radiators, that just isn't possible. The amount of air(CFM) moving through the server needs to be extremely high because there isn't a lot of volume in it. So there will always be a lot of wind noise. I could try putting sound dampening baffles on the intake and exhaust, but it's effect would be limited. Plus that would only mitigate the problem, not solve it.
@destrierofdark_6 жыл бұрын
Do you still believe in that meme?
@LifeOnHoth6 жыл бұрын
enterprise servers are meant to be sitting in a rack, inside a server room - not on the desktop. There's simply no way you can reduce noise in these, and why would you? If you buy servers of this format, you know what you are getting. :).
@geekjoe10445 жыл бұрын
I honestly always wanted an Xserve for aesthetics. But Jesus I could never deal with how noisy that thing is. I'll stick to my PowerEdges.
@CA.papaBear6 жыл бұрын
13:16 I am predicting that the USB 3.0 Card "bothered" the computer because of a power grounding (or power delivery) issue due to the second card being present. (I will modify this comment after done watching the result/outcome of said event.) EDIT: Nope, turns out that the computer did not like the drive... darn it.
@anton415 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my Mac Pro 2010 windows upgrades. I have that same pcie card.
@MACMASTER019 ай бұрын
Yep raid controller can only allocate 2TB of a drive. I had a 4 TB and it could only format to 2TB. I love Apple but raid limits suck no matter what you use.