[geeks] Amazing! Tales from the Dell T30 trenches...

[Jeff Cole]

Looks like someone had the same issue you did and took matters into their
own hands. You can download a 3D printer model for the filler.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2680761

On Feb 14, 2018 10:01, "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The T30 server system is based on an Intel C236 chipset, a special chipset
> that is classified as 'workstation' - neither desktop nor server.
>
> A brief review of a Tom's Hardware article about the chipset leads me to
> believe it has a shorter list of features than a true server chipset,
> making
> it more like a desktop chipset, but it undergoes additional stability tests
> and has a longer planned product life than a typical desktop chipset.
>
> Now that I've gotten familiar with mine, I'm going to order some more RAM
> - 8
> Gigs, taking the box to 16 Gig total is only $92 from provantage, which to
> me
> seems like a fair price - I'd like cheaper, but $11/Gig for DDR4 ECC seems
> fair.
>
> The only thing I'd like would be a blank panel to cover the slim ODD in my
> storage T30, to install 4x SATA drives I had to disconnect the ODD, so I
> now
> have a 'dead' (unpowered, unconnected) DVD drive on the box, I'd prefer to
> remove it and fill-in the hole, but Dell doesn't sell that little piece of
> plastic by itself... no big deal, but I'd prefer not to have dead hardware
> installed in the box.
>
> Lionel
>
> > On Feb 14, 2018, at 5:04 AM, Michael-John Turner <mj at mjturner.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 01:11:52PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
> >> I dunno how the E3-12xxvx CPUs stack up against desktop's equivalent
> >> models. Our production server is running on an E3-1230v3 and seems to
> hold
> >> it's own in a small business LAMP server setup.
> >
> > They're /broadly/ equivalent to the same generation/specification
> non-Extreme i7. So, for example, an E3-1240v3 is /roughly/ equivalent in
> performance and specification to an i7-4770K. Both are 4C/8T, 3.4Ghz base
> clock although the i7 can turbo to 3.9 and the Xeon to 3.8. In this case,
> the
> Xeon doesn't have an integrated GPU, wherease the i7 does. So, /broadly/
> equivalent :)
> >
> > i7s don't support ECC RAM though (E3 Xeons support both ECC and non-ECC
> RAM).
> >
> > Cheers, MJ
> > --
> > Michael-John Turner * mj at mjturner.net * http://mjturner.net/
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