I have a Dell T620 tower and an R720 rack mount. The full rack consumes an average of 12 KWh every day.
Proxmox on both, but I use the T620 mostly as it has 12 x 3.5" bays, and I have 2 x NVME drives on PCI card. It also houses the Nvidia Quadro P2000 GPU.
Consequently, the tower is more useful, quieter, and under utilised.
This Christmas break, I plan to move any VMs I have on the R720, move some RAM to max out the tower, and sell the R720. It has 16 x 2.5" bays and an H720 in IT mode. It will keep 64Gb RAM, 8 x 200Gb SSD, and 8 x 1.2Tb HDDs (and 240Gb SATA SSD boot drive where the DVD used to be) for the new owner.
The plan is to recoup some cash and lower the power draw of my rack significantly.
I have a Dell T620 tower and an R720 rack mount. The full rack consumes an average of 12 KWh every day.
Proxmox on both, but I use the T620 mostly as it has 12 x 3.5" bays, and I have 2 x NVME drives on PCI card. It also houses the Nvidia Quadro P2000 GPU.
Consequently, the tower is more useful, quieter, and under utilised.
This Christmas break, I plan to move any VMs I have on the R720, move some RAM to max out the tower, and sell the R720. It has 16 x 2.5" bays and an H720 in IT mode. It will keep 64Gb RAM, 8 x 200Gb SSD, and 8 x 1.2Tb HDDs (and 240Gb SATA SSD boot drive where the DVD used to be) for the new owner.
The plan is to recoup some cash and lower the power draw of my rack significantly.