Installing & Configuring Storage/RAID on Dell PowerEdge R620

Most helpful video! Thank you very much.

This is the first video in a while I’ve felt the need to comment…..

THANK YOU! I just got a used server in and everything I had questions on you covered in this video

This is dell our 620 and today were gonna install ssd

excellent!, thank You very much!.

do you know if the r620 will work with a 4 or 8tb sata ssd?

how the fuck do ypu expect people to know what your doing when your going so fucking fast and your talking is wauy slower then your moving like holy fuck what a waste of time

why are you downgrading from SSD to 10k spindle drives? wouldn't it be slower or you just want more capacity for lower cost?

thank you

Thank you!!!!

hi, I like the video. Me being more network I have trouble with the system. Indeed I have the DELL EMC R640 server or I have several disks but which does not display on my operating system. I remind you that it was a virtualization with ESXI.
Need your help, if possible.
Thank you

so do you create 2 virtual HD groups with 1 for the OS and the other for data? So for example if you had 6 drives, could you create a VHD group with 3 drives as the primary partition in a RAID-5 structure. And then create a second VHD group with the other 3 drives in another RAID-5 structure for data?

What is best practice?

Thanks so much! My job is more network related, so I don't deal with the server side often enough to remember how to configure storage. I was able to get my new SSDs configured with your help! My minecraft server feels happy :)

Great video. Thanks for sharing

I got a cheap R610 server with just a 1.2 TB 10K SAS disk, but the performance of the vms are very slow. Can i improve the performance attaching more drives?

When using 4 drives, RAID5 would give you 50% better linear throughput, and 50% more space (which also means extra performance when disk is full) compared to RAID10. Latency more or less the same for both configurations. You could probably think that RAID5 has some computational penalty, but in fact even for 8 drives the troughput scales linearly (x7).

The R620 requires two drives to boot right?

If that's running, that's quiet. I'm thinking of getting one for my bedroom/office. I like server noise as background ambience anyway.

Curious just how much money you have invested in this particular server.