Finally the Dell Poweredge T410 server delivered after the short delay caused by Typhoon in Mainland China. It takes 6 working days from I ordered the server from Dell until delivered to my home.
The server packed with very huge box, it's biggest branded server packing box I ever seen so far, my parents though I was ordered the air-conditioner. The T410 server I ordered come with following items:
Intel Dual Core E5502 Xeon CPU 1.86GHz, 4M Cache
Broadcom NetXtreme II Dual-Port Gigabit Enthernet without TOE
160GB SATA II Hard Drive x1
PERC 6/i Integrated Raid Card (support RAID0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and 50)
iDRAC6 Express
4GB Memory (2x2GB), 1066MHz, ECC Dual Ranked UDIMMS
16x DVD-ROM Drive
Power Supply, Non-Redundant, 525W
It also comes with 3 years (5x12) 4 hours onsite support service. Inside box it only includes the Server unit, two power cords, and Dell OpenManager DVD with electronic documents.
For hard drive, I purchased six 500GB Western Digital RE3 SATA hard drive from local computer shop and do RAID50 (RAID5 + RAID0). The Dell 160GB SATA hard drive come with the server I will use it as external backup drive for my workstation.
Operating system I will install 64bit CentOS 5.3 Linux. Tips for CentOS 5.3 installation and hardening will be discuss later in next articles.
Image 1: Dell PowerEdge T410 packing box, delivered by DHL
Image 2: Dell PowerEdge T410 with Western Digital RE3 500GB SATA hard disk x6
Image 3: Dell PowerEdge T410 server inside packing box.
Image 4: Dell PowerEdge T410 hard disk slots with hard drive brackets.
Image 5: Back panel of Dell PowerEdge T410.
Image 6: Front panel of Dell PowerEdge T410 server
Image 7: Dell PowerEdge T410 server
Image 8: Button unlocking the front panel of Dell PowerEdge T410
Image 9: Dell PowerEdge T410 after front panel removed
Image 10: Expansion card stabilizer of Dell PowerEdge T410
Image 11: Removing cooling shroud of Dell PowerEdge T410
Image 12: Inside Dell PowerEdge T410 after cooling shroud removed.
Image 13: Dell PowerEdge T410 cooling shroud
Image 14: Dell PERC 6/i SAS/SATA Raid Card come with the Dell PowerEdge T410 server
Image 15: Big cooling fan installed on back side of Dell PowerEdge T410 server. The PowerEdge T410 server only have one cooling fan installed but no overheat problem even in non-aircon room.
Image 16: Dell heat sink for Intel Xeon E5502 in Dell PowerEdge T410 server.
Image 17: Six Western Digital RE3 500GB SATA hard disk ready to install on Dell PowerEdge T410 server hard disk slots.
Image 18: Western Digital RE3 500GB SATA hard disk pluged in Dell PowerEdge T410 hard disk bracket.
Image 19: Dell PowerEdge T410 server empty hard disk bracket.
Image 20: The 2GB Samsung ECC Dual Ranked UDIMMS x2 installed inside Dell Poweredge T410 server.