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by bluedino 1241 days ago
I have some idle Dell R650's that draw 384W. A couple drives, buncha RAM, two power supplies, 2 CPU's (Xeon 8358)
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Hrm, interesting to see how the TDP of those 8358s drives overall power consumption. I'm looking at the idrac consoles of a couple R720XDs with 12 3.5" hdds, >128gb ram, two E5-2665s per, and they're all currently sipping ~150W at < 1 load average. The E5s have a TDP of 115W to the 8358's 250W, so I assume that's what's most of it. I admittedly do some special IPMI fan stuff, but that only shaves off tens of watts.
> Dell R650's that draw 384W

Umm, I'm not sure I can afford the electricity to run kit like that :)

I'm currently awaiting delivery of an Asus PN41 (w/ Celeron N5100) to use as yet another home server, after a recommendation from a friend. Be interesting to see how much it draws at idle!