That's facts man I was thinking about giving Furn a spot in a video but he keeps budding in all rude, if he'd ask nice I might make him a cohost 🙄

I am in my laundry room so it's already like 100 degrees in here without the server haha

I know this feeling I use a R710 with two 850w psu's for vm storage

You hit a lot besides can buy whatever I want 😅 I'm still finishing college atm so don't have my dream job yet but work in IT. I am having fun with Linux for sure! A lot to learn...

I thought so too, I want to measure how much power its pulling from the wall I have a feeling its ridiculous 😂

@@YourPersonalGeek I mean those fans alone sound like a lawn mower. See if u can swap out them fans and maybe the power supply to reduce some noise and maybe save some coin on that electric bill 🤷‍♀️

@@KosherTech I've looked up some other fan solutions and its definitely doable with a little soldering so going to do that asap

Is this possible to do with the think server rd640? It’s so loud lol

I've never herd anyone say they can modify pci slots,unless you've got special equipement!

Yeah I think they are definitely pretty common so maybe I can find some people to teach me some stuff easily!

I said she's loud 😂

Yeah thats my plan I think, upgrade the ram and maybe setup some VMs but first I found some different fans you can use and I'm definitely going to do that first so I can hear myself think 😂

Thanks Angel, thats the plan atm!

very true not very efficient

I would LOVE to know will check it out, thanks René much appreciated

@@YourPersonalGeek I'll probably flash the BMC on one of mine tomorrow, the 2nd in a few days. Will let you know how it went.

@ that would be awesome ill have some time this weekend to do the same if it works out! Thanks again for taking the time to share this

@@YourPersonalGeek Update time: I managed to sucessfully flash the BMC following the guide above. It is accurate even to this day, but here are a couple of gotchas that will save you some headaches: - CentOS 6.4 Live CD will do fine (no need for the DVDs) - if you have no mouse, ctrl + alt + F2 on the desktop => login is root, no password, download: vault.centos.org/6.4/isos/x86_64/. - If you use Ventoy to create a bootable USB stick (like I did), make sure to use the GPT partition table (can pick that in Option -> GPT), it will not boot if you use MBR. Also it'll show up as a harddrive in your F11 Boot menu rather than the USB-stick it is. If you don't know Ventoy: It basically puts a bootloader on your USB-stick, after that, whatever ISO you throw onto the stick, it'll just boot it. So no more need to reformat your USB-stick for every distro/OS. - CentOS 6.4 is EOL sinc nov. 2020, so you'll have to change all the repo urls using the following steps: -- 1. vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo -- 2. Disable all the mirrorlists by putting a # in front of them -- 3. Enable all the baseUrls by removing the # in front of them -- 4. Update the baseUrls to the CentOS vault. Change the first bit to vault.centos.org/6.4/, leaving the os/centosplus/extras etc. intact (eg. you get vault.centos.org/6.4/os/$basearch) (I used http instead of https, both /should/ work). If you need an example, check out: forums.cpanel.net/threads/yumrepo-error-and-cannot-find-valid-baseurl.682465/post-2805617 - Don't run yum update before installing the ipmi tools, it'll try update the repos AND upgrade your system (unlike apt update, which only updates repos), which will run out of disk space and you'll have to start over. Instead run yum check-update to /just/ update the repo list. - I didn't manage to get the wget command to download the python script to work, even after fixing the quotes => I ended up setting up a http server on a diff machine in my network and downloading it from there - When opening the firmware for modification, a lot of text will scroll over your screen at first, this is normal (freaked me out a little) - When flashing the actual firmware, you need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as described, quick glance the path didn't seem to be present on my machine (there was also a path not found message) => Everything still worked just fine Last but not least: the Dell website for firmware for these models is horrible. It does not list the latest firmware correctly, even when you entering your service tag (it actually doesn't list the BMC at all). I suggest you google "Dell BMC Firmware poweredge 2950" along with the version number you already have. Once you're on the download page, check the "Compatible Systems" at the bottom to make sure you've landed on the right page. I suggest keeping the one you have, or walking it to the latest version first along with the BIOS and the Drac (as forums don't recommend flashing to the latest in 1 go). In my case I ended up flashing 2.50 which was already present on my machine (www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=4nnng&oscode=lnux&productcode=poweredge-2950) Edit: It turns out the 2nd server I was patching was pretty far behind on firmware versions, kinda ignored the advice on walking the versions, flashed BIOS straight from 2.0.1 to 2.7.0 and the BMC from 1.77 to 2.50, worked just fine. If you run into dependency installing libxml2.i686 on CentOS 6.4 in order to flash your bios: run yum update libxml2, then run the yum install again, it'll work.

I think the PowerEdge 2950 is pretty common!

Yeah im taking networking classes atm been using docker and hyper-v all that stuff now so was going to put WS on it asap. I kind of just wanted to put an OS on it and see if the thing would actually boot up and work properly!

Got pretty lucky I’d say

Barely 😅

Yep. The 2950 has a lid switch that detects if the cover is removed and will ramp up the fans at full speed to compensate for the disturbed airflow since the air will most likely not reach the components beyond the CPU heatsinks when the cover is off.

I'm not sure you're asking the wrong person for that but If you find out let me know 😂 it sounds like a good idea!

Wouldn't recommend it. Servers aren't designed for that kind of work. You could do it but the output would be so insignificant that it won't even cover your power bills.

Won't be worth it sadly

google for 10 seconds before suggesting

I wouldn't recommend it. I just bought one, and the PERC 5/i and 6/i RAID controllers it comes with don't support hard disks >2 TB in size. Everyone talks about how you can swap it with an H700 controller, but for the life of me I cannot find reliable info on what kind of adapter cables I need.