I did a BIOS power tune recently, and that shaved off 14 watts on idle.

So that’s a thing you can also do.

In Europe, we can handle 32A on a single plug, so I just use a powerstrip with the C14 connector, to extend my UPS.

I’m nowhere near pulling that, so I’m safe. I’m at ~3A continiously, so I have litterally no reason to worry. Plus all the powerstrips are in spec for the country I’m in, so that’s another ‘yay I’m good’ thing.

The R740 should be able to boot from an NVMe drive (whether this is M.2 or U.2).

1. Is the BIOS set to UEFI boot mode?
2. Is SecureBoot enabled?
3. Is there a preffered PCIe slot available for this?
4. Have you tried another adapter? Not sure if yours is supported.

RAM speed support depends on the CPU. From the top of my head, the R630 doesn’t go further than 2400MT/s, neither do more than threequarter of the CPUs that can work in that machine.

You can put in DDR4-4000 if you want, but the machine will downclock it to 2400, because it can’t go much faster than that.

And why wouldn’t you want to go with ECC REG? It’s cheap, there is plenty of it and you can stuff in 3TB of it. Non-ECC can only go to 64GB I believe.

Why do you want to import VMs from a different hypervisor? Why not build an ‘golden image’ on your Proxmox machine, and create a template out of it.

This is basicly how I create my new VMs. I keep a relatively updated ‘golden image’ in my library and clone that to a VM as many times as I need. To be fair, I’m running ESXi. I have no idea if Proxmox even has this as a feature.

there is a very annoying squealing sound coming from near the processor.

Welcome to the world of capacitors and chokes.

Basicly: The power delivery to your CPU is the squeely bit.

ever since I put it in the server gives me a fatal error on bay 1 drive 0

Some SSDs cause this. Don’t know for sure why, but all the Samsung consumer SSDs I’ve put in servers over the years, never triggered those warnings. Maybe for your next round of SSDs, stick with Samsung?

Mostly my own eyes… /s

I run Dozzle as a container on my host and I use the command ‘docker stats’ on the CLI on the dockerhost for in-depth stuff.

1. It isn’t meant for 24/7 usage and it also doesn’t have the nice features other options do have (including Windows Server)
2. Windows Updates is just annoying
3. Why would you if there are plenty better tools for a specific job
4. Just because you know it, shouldn’t mean you will use it for that. Because maybe it’s time you learn a new trick, such as Linux based stuff
5. Extremely heavy for simple tasks
6. License costs

And to answer your own points you made:

1. Windows is always busy with something, so yeah, at default you have a higher usage.
2. Valid point
3. Simple needs require simple tools. So this is a perfect opportunity for TrueNAS.

I have nothing against Windows, so don’t get me wrong. But there are so many better ways to do stuff, also where you don’t have to pay for licensing.

I had my rack before I had my cluster of TinyMiniMicro’s. I’ve ran enterprise hardware for years, but not anymore. But a rack is convenient, because my Synology is rackmount too :)

so I have decided to get a Dell Poweredge R710 instead

Also pretty old. It’s from 2009…

This is the only correct answer to this question!

I run ESXi on most of my systems. So that means, when there is an update of ESXi, I install the updates and reboot them.

Sometimes I need to change hardware or upgrade stuff. Then too.

I took my docker host offline yesterday, because of a RAM upgrade (16GB > 24GB, yeah, I’m aware I lost dual-channel). I regularly check for updates on non-ESXi machines.

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Some people love 100% uptime of their servers. I hate it. When somebody has high uptime, it means they are lazy and don’t keep up with updates, which are critical most of the time.