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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I have a ThinkServer with a similar Xeon, running proxmox -> Debian, so I was looking like "huh, interesting" until I saw the internals.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck all that. Damn it Dell, quit your weird bullshit. It's just a motherboard, cpu, cooler, and ram. Slap in intake and exhaust fans. Figure it the fuck out.

E: and it better have a goddamn standard psu, too. Fuck yourself, Dell. I've seen your shit.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The one saving grace is that their one-off custom damn shit always feels well designed, and they move a lotta units (which helps with repairs when everything is GD custom). Dunno if that's changed in recent years.

With that said I avoid them for personal use usually for the same reason, why have a desktop if you don't get the benefit of parts compatibility?!

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

Hmm, I don't have direct experience with ThinkServers, but what I see on eBay looks like standard ATX hardware... which is not really what you want in a server.

The Dell motherboard has dual CPU sockets and 8 RAM slots. The PSUs are not the common ATX desktop format because there are 2 of them and they are hot swappable. This is basically a rack server repacked into a desktop tower case, not an ATX desktop with a server CPU socket.