Need help configuring Dell T-5810 Workstation

qqq said:
I asked a private vendor selling Dell systems a quote for T-5810 with one 500 GB, Two 3 TB and a DVD-RW dive and he did give me a quote so I have asked him how he is going to fit all 4 of them. I will post what he says when I hear from him.

His answer might help all of us.

I do appreciate all your help very much.
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hmmm... not sure as to the question, but it isn't hard to see how he is doing it as that system supports 3x HDD easily as long as there is a slim DVD drive... even better still.. you can add +6x 2.5" drives for more disk space as long as you throw in a controller as well...

http://www.dell.com/support/manuals...8abb37-ea31-47aa-9573-c6eb9d7bbd9c&lang=en-us

in case you still dont see it... the following link with pictures should show it better..

http://www.dell.com/support/manuals...968994-a120-4752-8450-9ce1ec034688&lang=en-us
 
qqq said:
I asked a private vendor selling Dell systems a quote for T-5810 with one 500 GB, Two 3 TB and a DVD-RW dive and he did give me a quote so I have asked him how he is going to fit all 4 of them. I will post what he says when I hear from him.

His answer might help all of us.

I do appreciate all your help very much.
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1. You've already got your drives and video cards

2. I've seen T5810, E5-1620 CPU, 8GB RAM, 500GB drive, and some dual-head video card available from Dell outlet for ~$650, 3 different times. I've seen the same for $850 often. Even if you got such a rig and didn't have immediate use for the drive and video card that came with it, you can pull those out and put the ones you already have into it. There's supposedly a "5.25 drive bay" for an 2nd optic drive... you could likely mount one of your drives there.

3. Suggest you use the above as a guide for what you should be paying for your new rig.
 
Hi all,

Thank you guys, really good suggestions. Sales guy that I was talking about didn't really know that 3rd HDD in 5.25 inch bay would require an extra metal insert with SKU 575 BBCU which costs extra $99.00. I found it out somewhere else & told him about it. It is real pain to install & not suitable for me to clone HDDs 2 or 3 times a week.

Well I am thinking about going for T-7910 which has 4 HDD slots which are very easy to pull out from front panel & just insert the HDD. Also it is on sale with 35% discount & sales guy told me he would give another 10% which turns out to be a great deal.

I have some technical questions for you experts though & would really appreciate the feedback. Here they are :

(1) I have used Xeon E5645 2.4 GHz on my old T-7500 & it was good enough. The new T-7910 has E5 2603 V3 1.7 GHz. Is that good enough & close to old one ?

(2) I had 12 GB DDR3 Memory & I never saw it using more than 7 GB with 12 monitors with charts but new one will have 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz. Would that suffice ? For extra 8 GB more memory they want outrageous $ 340.00

(3) I have 3 AMD ATI FirePro 2460 DDR3 & want to get an extra for safety but new ones are DDR5 & made by Sapphire but still says Sapphire ATI FirePro 2460 DDR5. Would DDR5 be compatible with old DDR3 cards in case one of old one blows out ?

(4) If I choose one processor instead of two, then slots available for 3 Video cards are two x16 and one x4 ( Full length wired as x4 ). Would one wired as 4 be good enough for FirePro 2460 ?

Thank you for your advice.
 
1) Here is a free site that will give you the PassMark benchmarks of each CPU: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
It shows that your old ES 5645 was about twice as fast as the new E5 2603

I can't answer the other questions, but I would not advise buying a new system with a much slower CPU, and less memory.

You really should check out Dell Outlet.
 
Whoops. My bad. I was comparing the Passmark Dual-CPU E5645 vs the Single-CPU E5-2603.
The old CPU actually benchmarks only 16% higher than the new CPU.

Still, I am scratching my head as to why you are replacing your PC with a slower PC with less RAM.
 
Overnight said:
7TB of storage seems like a lot. You need that much?
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OP probably needs that much, yes... I personally have 10TB on my setup and am 77% full... I'll probably add another 2x10TB (I mirror all my drives when they are that big..)..

PS. I realized that it sounded like if I was the OP. thus I edited my comment.
 
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Overnight said:
So 30TB total on your new configuration. Wow!
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Raw? no.. that would be 40TB raw... today I have 2x Seagate 10TB IronWolf Pro 7200RPM ... mirred, so usable is around 9.09TB ... adding another 2x for a total of ~18TB+ ... that is on the server, all the FOB data for futures and options is there as raw text files, but I have been tinkering with Splunk lately so I want to load the entire TS into it... am also looking to add equities data, as far back as I can get my hands on down to as granular a resolution as I can...

drives are cheap presently (relatively speaking of course) @ <$400/ea... the workstations are all 1xTB SSD(Crucial/samsung), with 2x1TB SATA (Seagate/WD) mirrored as scratch/temp disks to mess around with (aka D:\Downloads :))...

I don't concentrate my work on a single PC, to me is more cost effective and easier to distribute the workload and break things up... OP is going for one solves all, I believe in breaking it up and specializing on task/function so the tech can do its thing. I also dont buy greatest and latest... HP Z400/Z240, Lenovo TC m600's, an HP N54L for Storage Server, and a custom built water cooled overclocked i7-3770K are what make up my infrastructure... Trade/Research/Office(aka browsing)/Storage(W2016s)/Ticket Data handling(now going to run splunk as well.. on CentOS 7).. each tuned a specific way for the task they are handling.. the tick data server has 4x4TB and 4x2TB drives... it basically gets the left overs of what gets removed from the N54L.. which is a solid little box, never a failure.

anyhow, enough ranting about tech...
 
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