Power consumption
Does anyone know how many watts are used by an average to high-end server per day?
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tiersten
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What is an average to high end server? What I'd call a high end server is probably not what you'd call one. If it doesn't take up an entire rack then its not high end...
Buy one of those watt meter things and test it out IMO. It all depends on how much stuff you've got inside e.g. CPUs, memory, HDs etc... -
MAC_Addy
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We've got around 70 servers right now.
Each running around 2.4Ghz quad-core.
16 - 32 gigs ram.
Running RAID 5 with 5 disks, each running 500gig space.2017 Certification Goals:
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svo4dot6
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I have a dual quad core 2.66 (new xeon arch), 6 SAS disks in RAID 10, 32G of ram thats pulling 1.7Amps or 193Watts.
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hypnotoad
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most vendors have a power consumption calculator on the site. dells is nice. buy a 'kill a watt' box from newegg for about $25 and see how much one server is pulling. then you will have some quantative data to work with -- which often is the selling point for green initiatives and server consolidation projects (if that's what you're going for).
Edit: im assuming you have these servers on a UPS that is managed -- can you log in to the UPS and find the load in watts or amps?