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Archive for the ‘Dell PowerEdge R730’ Category

Some links on Dell R730xd fan noise

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/02

Some combinations of hardware/OS will result in high FAN speed despite low power usage on Dell R730/R730xd systems.

For me, altering the BIOS or iDRAC thermal settings did not solve it, nor did updating all firmwares to the most recent versions, so I went digging further.

Below are some links in case I want to resolve that (after figuring out that Dell R730 and R730xd are 13G systems).

There are lots of quotes in them as it will help me find back the information later on.

Note to self: I really wonder what the difference between raw 0x30 0xce and raw 0x30 0x30 is (I think 3rd party PCIe support and forced fan speed level) and how they differ from the system.thermalsettings.ThirdPartyPCIFanResponse setting.

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Dell PowerEdge R730, Hardware, man/manual pages, mankier, Power User | Leave a Comment »

PSA: The ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 Card Is VERY Long (~27cm) and tall (~12cm); replacement thermal padding via Amazon

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/28

[Wayback/Archive] amp8888 comments on PSA: The ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 Card Is VERY Long (~27cm) via [Wayback/Archive] PSA: The ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 Card Is VERY Long (~27cm) : homelab

Just a quick PSA to everyone out there: the PCIe gen 4 version of the ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 card is very long, so take that into consideration if you’re planning to use them in a server.

Note at at 12.2cm, the card is also quote tall. This tool can be a problem on many 19″ rackmount systems. For instance on my Dell R730xd, I had to remove part of the aluminium chassis above PCIe slot #4 in order to make the card fit. This was easy using a set of pliers and does not interfere with any of the mounting mechanisms.

Older versions of the ASUS card are smaller, but cannot do PCIe 4.0:

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Posted in Dell PowerEdge R730, Hardware, M.2/NGFF, NVMe, PCIe/PCI-e/PCI Express, Power User, SSD | Leave a Comment »

Dell R730 – Google Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/24

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] dell r730 – Google Search because I first wanted to run a Dell PowerEdge R730 16 Bay SFF, but ended up using the Dell PowerEdge R730xd 24 Bay SFF (plus an additional two 2.5 inch devices in the back) running ESXi on it.

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Posted in Dell PowerEdge R730, ESXi6, ESXi7, Hardware, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »