Not in a position to try this right now, but if your server is a Dell and you have the (enterprise, possibly) iDRAC, I think you can make a light on the drive caddy blink so you can identify it.
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Just wanted to add that I got a T400 and it fits lovely in my R640 low-profile slot and no complaints. Works great, passed through to VM.
I asked a similar thing the other day but about a 640. The problem I have is a power error during boot that requires F1 to continue but otherwise works fine. The docs mention supporting up to 3 nvidia T4 series cards. Is that Tesla and would that include T400 which looks like it would fit. I just want to avoid the boot error if I can.
I have a self-built system for pretty-much this built around a Supermicro board X11SCH-LN4F with Xeon E-2146G. I have 8 drives (not hot-swap) in a ZFS array, plus nvme for the OS, and I use Noctuas all round. Not silent but quiet enough. Idles around 80w and I run a number of containers/VMs on it as well as storage. I went with a low end 4U case with shallow 45cm depth.
The motherboard takes up to 128GB ECC UDIMMS and has 4 ethernet ports (plus a 5th for IPMI) and a good number of SATA ports (I am running 8 drives without additional cards).
I have enterprise rackmount gear as well and my DIY box is in a different league silence-wise (and efficient low-idle CPU wise as well).
If building today, the equivalent current CPU is, I think, E-2246G.