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April 2nd, 2012 07:00
Noise levels for PowerEdge T610/T710 compared with R610/R710
I am interested in purchasing a PowerEdge T610 or T710, but I have concerns as to how loud these servers are compared to their rack-mounted counterparts. The T610/T710 would be located in a small office environment and not a dedicated server room. I've read many different reviews of each server and I keep getting conflicting information regarding fan noise. Can someone set the record straight on the fan noise levels for the T610 and T710?
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skylarking
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April 2nd, 2012 18:00
Don't know about the R series but my T610 with 2x 300GB 15K SAS HDD, Perc6/i, 1x X5620? CPU, 8GB ECC RAM, Creative XFI sound card & modded x8 PCIe Graphics card sounds like a jet when the room temp gets to 26-28C but more quiet at 20C (though quiet is not the correct word for this system).
I just wish that Dell would expose some fan profiles in the BIOS for office users to tweak as they usually sit near the machine and can be better monitored these servers as compared to when placed in another uninhabited room.
Dev Mgr
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April 3rd, 2012 09:00
I really like my Dell precision workstation T7500. It's quiet and just about on par with a T610 (supports dual Xeon Westmere's, and has 6 dimm slots per CPU, supports PERC controllers, and officially supports 2 videocards (and has an 1100W PSU with the correct powercables to support the videocards)).
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April 3rd, 2012 10:00
Thanks for your input, Dev Mgr, but I'm well aware of the specs for a T7500 and it cannot support what I would need in a T610/T710 (i.e. eight HDDs in a hot swappable chassis).
skylarking
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April 3rd, 2012 22:00
Hi DevMgr, i know of the strengths of the T7500 but added to what MRMORIN highlighted, the T7500 also lacks hot swap powers supplies. And considering the price i payed for my T610, it's a good machine.
Now if only Dell would release new firmware and exposed some bios settings for the cooling strategy, then this would be a great machine (despite the lack of x16 graphics slot for which i have a workaround). Having said that, if i needed a production machine, i wouldn't likely use a T610 with x16 graphics workarounds...