Dell Poweredge R815

[Ajgoyt]

Hi my work is retiring two R815's and both have 4 amd processors and 512gb of ram , they are willing to give me one of the servers. by the service tag they were built in 2014.

I am currently running a SM 24BAY hotswap server with a Supermicro X9DRL-3F/iF Version 1.01 - (DUAL) Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2665 0 @ 2.40GHz,64 GiB DDR3 Multi-bit ECC - under Unraid with dockers for Plex and main storage.

The R815 only has 6 SSD type hot swap drives, i have attached the specs (not sure why the service tag only shows two CPU's) as i saw 4 cpu's with heatsinks today with the cover off. is this server worth taking home?

your thoughts?

 

[Spartacus]

The service tag just gives what it was ordered with, an upgrades afterwards are recorded generally.
Do you need the compute for anything? What are you asking of us ?

 

[marcoi]

take it home and part it out if it doesnt workout for you. I'm sure the memory probably usable in your other server if its similar specs.

 

[Deslok]

Your xeons are more powerful but there's only 2 of them, the memory however should be interchangeable, the opterons will use more power as well, you might be able to sell the R815 for enough(as whole or parts) to get your hands on some E5 V2 cpu's that would be more capable and power efficent, E5-2667 V2 or E5-2670 V2 would be my first choices there.
The new Opteron 6300: Finally Tested!

 

[Ajgoyt]

Ok got the R815 home - even got rails, has 2- Sammy 120g 850's, 4 - 600g intel SSD's, powered it up and went into the bios...

Here is the list .......

Dell PowerEdge R815
Bios 3.2.2
Memory 512gb ECC DDR3 - 1333 MHZ
Processors (4) AMD Opteron 6276 16mb Cache 16cores per proc @ 2.30ghz
Integrated Raid Controller - PERCH700-INT, 512M, SERIAL ATTACHED SCSI
2- SFP Type Cards
Pci RISER EXTENSION..

I am wondering if this would be a better choice for Unraid/Plex server? No VM'S , Seems like a higher performance unit with (4) CPU's at 2.30ghz @16 cores per proc = 64 cores for all (4) and 512gb Ram! - (Picture of my current cores attached from my XEONS)

My only issue is this unit is 2U and only has 6 - 2.5 slots. Where i am running 24 - 3.5 platter drives in the SuperChassis 846TQ-R1200B, is the there a way to have these existing drives in the SM hooked up to the Dell, sometype of JBOD enclosure but i would have to buy another Raid controller that could handle 24 drives or?

 

[Spartacus]

Yes, you could turn the supermicro into a DAS/JBOD box sure, but you likely won't see any performance difference between the two servers as unraid is primarily drive speed hindered.
You're just going to add alot more power, heat, and noise with almost no benefit for your use case.

If you're not needing it for compute or 2.5" slots I would max out the ram on your supermicro from the 815 to add some extra transcode ramdisk to your plex, use the 600gb ssd as a raid10 cache on your unraid (if you dont have one already), and then try to sell the R815.

 

[Ajgoyt]

Yes, you could turn the supermicro into a DAS/JBOD box sure, but you likely won't see any performance difference between the two servers as unraid is primarily drive speed hindered.
You're just going to add alot more power, heat, and noise with almost no benefit for your use case.

If you're not needing it for compute or 2.5" slots I would max out the ram on your supermicro from the 815 to add some extra transcode ramdisk to your plex, use the 600gb ssd as a raid10 cache on your unraid (if you dont have one already), and then try to sell the R815.

Ya makes sense - what do you think the R815 is worth?

 

[Spartacus]

Ya makes sense - what do you think the R815 is worth?

That I can’t help with, depending on how much ram is left in it, I’d guess a few hundred. Someone else might be able to chime in more accurately though.

 

[Deslok]

The R815 isn't faster cpu's either, if you're hurting for performance get yourself some E5-2667 V2 chips or E5-2670 V2's
Dell Inc. PowerEdge R815 vs Hewlett-Packard HP Z820 Workstation - Geekbench Browser
Ebay shows the R815 between 300-1200 depending on ram and drives, it looks like you have 512gb in yours I'd probably strip it of that so you could load it into your existing xeon system leave it with 64gb of ram that's in the xeon(assuming your signature is correct?), flip it for 400ish take that and spend it on the new xeons and sell the old ones to walk away with a few hundred bucks still.
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