Re: rackmount servers: seeking green compromise

2008-03-28 Thread Timothy Wilson
Hello Jacob, I might be missing something, but is anything stopping you from consolidating your servers onto a single HP / Dell that you already have? Or are these all at different customer sites? Depending on your power and processor usage, you might actually find that a single HP / Dell uses

rackmount servers: seeking green compromise

2008-03-27 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
have a number of rackmount machines of various sorts in service at the moment and, based on the relatively low load on them, am interested in finding equipment that is more optimal from the environmental / consumption point of view. machines that are currently in use are a smattering of dell,

Re: rackmount servers: seeking green compromise

2008-03-27 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Jake, have a number of rackmount machines of various sorts in service at the moment and, based on the relatively low load on them, am interested in finding equipment that is more optimal from the environmental / consumption point of view. A shop in Belgium offers this machine:

Re: rackmount servers: seeking green compromise

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Shockley
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: - fast disks with hardware raid, i.e. u320 or sas, that are hotswappable; am willing to accept SATAII if other criteria work Fast disks are usually hot. Usually heat goes up with spindle speed. - low power draw / heat signature - low noise - 1U or 2U size The