Dell PowerEdge T30 6th Gen Dual Core 1TB Server $207 w/ Free Shipping @ Dell Business

[Son of Homer]

Saw this posted at SlickDeals:

Dell Business has the new Dell PowerEdge T30 6th Generation Intel Skylake Dual Core Mini Tower Server (2016 model) for $387 - $180 off with code 199T30 [Exp 5/5 at 5AM PT] = $207 with free shipping. Plus, get up to $11 back in rewards.
Features an Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz processor, 4GB memory and 1TB cabled HDD.
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p...l=en&s=bsd

Also the Xeon version:

Dell Small Business has their Dell PowerEdge T30 Mini Tower Server for $629 - $280 w/ coupon code 349T30 = $349. Shipping is free. Thanks Suryasis

New PowerEdge T30 Mini Tower Server | Dell United States
Specs:

• Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5 CPU
• 8GB UDIMM Memory
• 1TB HDD
• DVDRW
• No OS

 

[Northern]

Dell Site indicates it comes with " Intel Pentium G4400 " which is pretty crap imho (only 2 cores, no HT and passmark of only 3601)
It does not appear to come with "Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5". Where did you get that spec from?

 

[Son of Homer]

There are 2 different offerings, one with the G4400 , the other with the Xeon E3-1225 v5. The Dell links are above for each. This is from SlickDeals.

 

[Churchill]

Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5 3.3G, 8M cache, 4C/4T, turbo (80W)

4C...4Threads.

No. Hell No. Not worth $50. These chips are garbage.

Buy a NUC for pete's sake.

 

[Son of Homer]

Good to know.

 

[Peanuthead]

Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5 3.3G, 8M cache, 4C/4T, turbo (80W)

4C...4Threads.

No. Hell No. Not worth $50. These chips are garbage.

Buy a NUC for pete's sake.

I disagree. For specific use cases they are fine. NUCs won't let me load up 4+ HDDs and ESXi for a simple lab pc. Now on the flip side I still have a BNIB T20 sitting here I never used from the last sale.

 

[Churchill]

I disagree. For specific use cases they are fine. NUCs won't let me load up 4+ HDDs and ESXi for a simple lab pc. Now on the flip side I still have a BNIB T20 sitting here I never used from the last sale.

Very true. Depends on your usecase. For my project i'd never want this thing as the price I pay I could get a rack mount server that blows this one out of the water. Of course, I have a rack, so that gives more wiggle room for systems.

 

[Aluminum]

No. Hell No. Not worth $50. These chips are garbage.

Buy a NUC for pete's sake.

Very true. Depends on your usecase. For my project i'd never want this thing as the price I pay I could get a rack mount server that blows this one out of the water. Of course, I have a rack, so that gives more wiggle room for systems.

New or several generations out of date used power-wasting trash? I can hyperbole too
Because for new I say: Prove it. Pricepoint is $350, now beat 8GB ECC DDR4 + 4 skylake cores @ 3.3+ in a case with a psu and a boot drive, go!

Cheap E3 are ideal for unthreaded stuff that loves clockspeed, openVPN for example. A $350 NUC with a U-class strangled TDP cpu would run about half the speed as the 1225v5, along with no useful expansion for NICs etc.

 

[Churchill]

New or several generations out of date used power-wasting trash? I can hyperbole too
Because for new I say: Prove it. Pricepoint is $350, now beat 8GB ECC DDR4 + 4 skylake cores @ 3.3+ in a case with a psu and a boot drive, go!

Cheap E3 are ideal for unthreaded stuff that loves clockspeed, openVPN for example. A $350 NUC with a U-class strangled TDP cpu would run about half the speed as the 1225v5, along with no useful expansion for NICs etc.

I'd use this device as a super powerful plex server or a hypervisor to run VM's on. Does it have 2 NIC's on it? Didn't check.

This is not a 'new' system at all. Intel doesn't make this CPU anymore. I'd have to compare it to a Xeon of yesteryear.

Here's what I found for a brief ebay search of comparable desktops:

HP Z200 SFF INTEL XEON X3450 2.66GHZ 8GB RAM 2TB HDD NIVDIA NVS300 WIN 7 PRO

Half the price, with a hyperthreaded xeon and all the rest of the fixings.

This boils down to, like Peanut said, your use case. I wouldn't use it or want it for anything in my home lab. If it were a HT'd Xeon MAYBE.

 

[hakabe]

Imo 1225v5 is not bad at all. Keep an eye for this seller (EU/DE) bluespoon_de | eBay Wasn't too long ago when I purchased Fujitsu TX 1330V2 with e3-1230v5 server for 380€.

However, after having the Fujitsu, I wouldn't consider it in the future. Not without having my own 3D-printer - the caddies costs a fortune.

 

[Evan]

I would say the price is good and an 1225 v5 while not a power house has some good clock speed to it and will serve some people really well.

I would not buy one but for some people wanting a single simple box it works ok especially at the price.

 

[abstractalgebra]

I'd use this device as a super powerful plex server or a hypervisor to run VM's on. Does it have 2 NIC's on it? Didn't check.

This is not a 'new' system at all. Intel doesn't make this CPU anymore. I'd have to compare it to a Xeon of yesteryear.

Here's what I found for a brief ebay search of comparable desktops:

HP Z200 SFF INTEL XEON X3450 2.66GHZ 8GB RAM 2TB HDD NIVDIA NVS300 WIN 7 PRO

Half the price, with a hyperthreaded xeon and all the rest of the fixings.

This boils down to, like Peanut said, your use case. I wouldn't use it or want it for anything in my home lab. If it were a HT'd Xeon MAYBE.

x3450 Is really old on 45nm. HT is not a silver bullet.

Why get the new e3-1225 v5?
Much newer manufacturing process 14 nm vs 45 nm A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor
Significantly higher turbo clock speed 3.7 GHz vs 2.93 GHz More than 25% higher turbo clock speed
Higher clock speed 3.3 GHz vs 2.53 GHz More than 30% higher clock speed
Has a built-in GPU Yes vs No Somewhat common; A separate graphics adapter is not required
Newer Oct, 2015 vs Sep, 2009 Release date over 6 years later
Significantly better geekbench 3 single core score 3,602 vs 1,726 More than 2x better geekbench 3 single core score
Better PassMark score 7,727 vs 4,546 Around 70% better PassMark score
Lower typical power consumption 65W vs 77.19W More than 15% lower typical power consumption
Slightly better performance per watt 3.12 pt/W vs 1.74 pt/W Around 80% better performance per watt