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6 servers were decomissioned, Iwas able to only get the disks, RAM, CPUs and Network Card.
The total of this is : 88 x 8TB SAS disks 44 x 16GB RAM sticks (half 2133, half 2400) 6 x v3 Xeon e3 2630 6 x v4 Xeon e5 2640 3 x 10 GB PCIe dual port cards 12 x 1U heatsink
I'm really lucky to have all of these, even if I don't have a use for all of that for now (except some of the disks)
EDIT: Forgot to mention: All of this for free, I work in a datacenter!
Where do you live that power is so cheap that you can spin that much rust and also can you run extension lead to my place?
I've found the disks hurt my power less than choosing a good motherboard/cpu, and using M2 for the OS drive.
Using it drives up power. At idle, my latest 5-drive setup draws 20 watts, it goes up when I'm copying files to it (usually syncing media files from 2 other local storages).
Compared to my old system which was an ancient gaming rig that drew 120w at idle, with only 2 drives (OS and storage).
I also have a 5 disk NAS running some old drives, it's idle power is so low I've forgotten - maybe 15w? The most it could potentially draw is about 60w, since that's the power supply max - I've seen it draw 45w while rebuilding a disk.
That's super low. What drives do you have? Are your drives spinning down?
It's a mix of crap I've acquired over the years, all 1TB drives, 3.5",most 5-10 years old, in an old Drobo I inherited. Yea, it's a massive risk, but it's one of 3 storage systems replicating data locally, plus a Crashplan backup.
Since it's 5 drives, I'm pretty sure it spins them down - at best if they drew 3w each, it'd be 15w in drives alone.
Running it on a smart switch, I've never seen it draw more than 30w, and that's at boot time with 5 drives.
My 3-drive Proxmox box (a Dell SFF) drives are a mix of spinning metal and SSD (2.5"), it idles about 20w, peaks at 100w when I'm converting video files with a VM. That hardware is about 5 years old too, 32gb of ram, booting from an M2 drive.
My use-case is very high idle time (95%+?), so I'm targeting lowest idle power consumption. Pretty much anything will suck power once I'm doing anything heavy (like video conversion).