I Upgraded my home Server - Lenovo x3650 M5

New (to me) Server - Lenovo x3650 M5 - Overview
‪@ServeTheHomeVideo‬ Did I do good?
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** TIMESTAMPS **
00:00 Intro
01:14 Why did I upgrade?
02:06 UnRAID
02:50 What I need the Server to handle
04:06 Solving the problems with upgraded hardware
06:48 Does it meet my needs?
07:54 One glaring problem....
10:33 So - how does it perform?
14:34 Summary
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[@MySmartHomeDomain]

Nice video, I noticed that ebay advert stated 5462 but this usually only supported V3 cpus. I would suggest an ML2 riser and 10gb adapter for future expansion too. The IMM2 can utilise this too and reduces surolus cabling. Also the sd card adapter could have a raid recovery partition for migration/recovery etc. I have 4 of these and great machines

[@HiveMindAutomation]

It came with PCI Risers and I'm considering a 10GBe Card but I've not decided on one yet. Also need to make some upgrades to the network to support 10GBe before I go to deep down that rabbit hole I didn't see an SD Card Adapter inside but it does have an internal USB port on the mainboard which I'm using as my unRAID flash port.

[@MySmartHomeDomain]

@@HiveMindAutomation The SD Card adapters are not normally standard but quite cheap now (After ESXi frowned on their usage after Version 7)

[@Qosmio1955]

I went down the HPE DL380P rabbit-hole. 25 HDD capacity, etc, etc, blah blah. Biggest mistake I ever made. The noise was incredible, even after I went through the considerable rigmarole to quieten it down, but the real killer was the power consumption. I'm off-grid and to feed that baby around the clock was going to require at least one more $2k Pylontech 3000C battery. I wasn't up for that and replaced it with four, small footprint, low powered, servers each running Proxmox and hosting my VMs across them all. I kept a 12 year old PC that used to be my video editing machine and repurposed it as a NAS. All these combined consume less power than the HP server did and almost noiselessly.

[@rrrrrrrr290]

yeap been there done that.

[@1Gr33ny]

I'm not surprised!! DL380's are beasts!

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Power Consumption hasn't been that bad to be honest. The x3650 is pulling down around 300 Watts, and the "Disk Shelf" pulls around 75 Watts so just shy of 400 for the whole setup. My old machine was pulling a bit less than that, but I couldn't do anything with it.

[@Qosmio1955]

@@HiveMindAutomation Yeah, it is horses for courses. If I weren't off-grid I may have kept the Dl380. I just did some quick calculations based on the national average electricity price of 30c per kWh and you're staring down $1051 per year just to feed that machine. Good luck with it.

[@HiveMindAutomation]

I have Solar which offsets the cost for the most part.... at least during the day. Next hurdle is a home Battery to cover the overnight costs.

[@VideoGigs]

I’m thinking the power consumption is going to hurt your wallet. 😂

[@ecotts]

My thought exactly.. I prefer to have a few super low powered small servers so if one of the actual physical servers go down I can shuffle my VMs across to one of my other working ones as a temporary measure, rather that put all my eggs in one basket.

[@VideoGigs]

@@ecotts for me, iI prefer Docker and a few Pi’s :-)

[@HiveMindAutomation]

It's not been that bad to be honest. The x3650 is pulling down around 300 Watts, and the "Disk Shelf" pulls around 75 Watts so just shy of 400 for the whole setup. My old machine was pulling a bit less than that, but I couldn't do anything with it.

[@VideoGigs]

@@HiveMindAutomation I have 3 Dell 720’s each with 512GB of RAM. I eventually had to stop using them as they were not wife approved due to the power bill. Replaced my lab with a few raspberry pi’s and 1 dell Optiplex 7050 SFF. Good luck :-)

[@_vilepenguin]

Might as well get a Nvidia Telsa cards or two for machine learning and stable diffusion. You obviously have come to grips with your new power bill. Use all them power supplies.

[@HiveMindAutomation]

The Power consumption hasn't been too bad. With the server pulling down ~ 300 Watts and the "Disk Shelf" (old server enclosure full of HDD's) pulling ~ 75 Watts for just shy of 400 Watts total, it's still more than my old server, but I'm already doing WAY more with it. I'm considering possibly throwing some GPU's at it, but right now I don't have a use case other than maybe Video transcoding to make my edits smoother. When I've decided on one I'll pickup a 10-Gig NIC for it so my file transfers happen faster...

[@Warzoooooo]

From some review of the x3650 I learned that this server uses TruDDR4 memory. I've tried to find out if its possible to run it with non TruDDR memory, and for the most part what i find does not evevn mention truddr4 at all, but where I find any information it usually state that you can run it with non truddr BUT it will always require a F1 keypress during boot as it would not be very happy with that type of ram. Can you shine any light on this topic?

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Honestly I can't shed any light on that at all. I've looked at some Lenovo Documentation that suggests the TruDDR4 only enables additional stretch limits? I think there might be an issue if you were to mix TruDDR4 with non TruDDR4. It DOES seem to require ECC RAM at a minimum, so there's that.

[@paullee107]

I know it might not be ok with you but I wished you'd of told us how much you spent and where you procured the server. Whether a crazy good deal, or by paying up.

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Pretty sure I said in the video I spent $2000 Australian on eBay.....

[@paullee107]

@@HiveMindAutomation ah sorry - dang, I'd of thought more. I'm shopping a server upgrade and like Dell, but appreciate know there's other good options! Sounds like a great price IMO!!

[@ecotts]

Lovely machine if it was peak 30Watt, but if you can afford to run it fkit.. Enjoy! 👍

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Power Consumption hasn't been that bad to be honest. The x3650 is pulling down around 300 Watts, and the "Disk Shelf" pulls around 75 Watts so just shy of 400 for the whole setup. My old machine was pulling a bit less than that, but I couldn't do anything with it.

[@frankwalder3608]

What backup software do you use?

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Like in the Video, it's using CrashPlan.

[@frankwalder3608]

@@HiveMindAutomation, I guess CrashPlan has their own proprietary application. I wouldn't want to spend that much on bandwidth, and I definitely wouldn't want my data on someone else's server. I wouldn't store my valuables in someone else's basement. Does CrashPlan's backup application create an image from a restore point, or is the backup an incremental data/applications only?

[@eWhizz]

That may well cost you $200 per month in power to run…. 😅

[@ecotts]

He's got resources for days now though bruh. 😅 Rumour has it he's going to start renting out VM space on his server to his subscribers to help cover the energy cost during the Bidenomics regimes reign, at least until Trump gets back in office and starts burning coal again. 🤣

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Power Consumption hasn't been that bad to be honest. The x3650 is pulling down around 300 Watts, and the "Disk Shelf" pulls around 75 Watts so just shy of 400 for the whole setup. My old machine was pulling a bit less than that, but I couldn't do anything with it.