The R430.

A Dell R430, one unit tall, right above the R730. It runs Proxmox too, clustered with the big one, on two SSDs that used to be the R730’s spares.

Sheet 02 · The servers Sheet 02A · The R730 Sheet 01 · The cabinet Sheet 03 · The stack

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TD-LAB-02B · The R430 Dell PowerEdge R430 as built. Top view with the cover off: the eight-bay drive cage, the backplane, a row of fans, two CPUs with 12 DIMM sockets (4 fitted, in A1, A2, B1, B2) and two power supplies at the rear left. Front and rear elevations. Detail B: the eight front bays with their numbers, a Crucial MX500 500 GB in bay 0 and a Crucial MX500 500 GB in bay 1, bays 2 to 7 empty. The ZFS pool rpool is a mirror of those two drives behind a Dell PERC H730 Mini in HBA mode. Each numbered part opens a card. 1234567812345678ABCDEFABCDEF TD-LAB-02B TITLE BLOCK AND NOTES BELOW MX500 500 GB MX500 500 GB 01234567 1 2 rpool DETAIL B · THE BAYS SCALE 1:2.5 rpool 2-WAY MIRROR 3 BAY 0 · MX500 500 GB BAY 1 · MX500 500 GB Proxmox and the VMs on this host PERC H730 Mini HBA modeEVERY DISK GOESSTRAIGHT TO ZFS 10 48 GB RAM 2 × 16 GB + 2 × 8 GBSOCKETS A1 A2 B1 B28 OF 12 EMPTY 9 ZFS POOL CPU 1CPU 2FANSBACKPLANE12 DIMM SOCKETS4 FITTEDPSU 2PSU 1POWERBOARD 12 6 5 8 9 7 642.3 TOP VIEW · COVER OFF SCALE 1:4 INSIDE IS SCHEMATIC B 4 482.4 42.8 1U FRONT SCALE 1:4 NIC 1 → GATEWAY Port 7 · 1 GbE PSU 1 PSU 2 11 12 REAR SCALE 1:4 AS BUILT R430 · 2026-11-08
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At a glance

CPUs
2 × E5‑2620 v3
Threads
24
Memory
48 GB
Storage
2 drives in one ZFS pool
Controller
PERC H730 Mini, HBA mode
Runs
robomp

Two drives, one pool, six empty bays. It runs on the R730’s hand-me-downs.

The pool

  • rpool

    2-way mirror

    Proxmox and the VMs on this host

    • Bay 0 Crucial MX500 500 GB
    • Bay 1 Crucial MX500 500 GB