Paul Tansom wrote: > I was given a 48U rack a while back with 5 2U server units in, but when I > looked at power consumption found that they would have cost a fortune to run > as > they draw around 175W (iirc). I couldn't see a practical means of lowering > that > since it seemd that the majority of the power use was from the twin Athlon > MP2000+ processors and removing fans, etc. didn't make much impact. That was a > bit of a shock given that the server I was replacing was only consuming around > 47W (based on a Celeron 533). > > What I ended up doing was building up a new server on the, then just released, > Atom 330 board from Intel. The chipset draws abit more than ideal, but it > still > managed to up my performance whilst dropping my power usage. I think I'm > around > the 40W or less, which is nowhere near as low as others mentioned, but that > does give pretty nice performance with the dual core Atom and 2G RAM, along > with twin 500G IDE drives running a software RAID mirror on a PCI card (I > already had both, so saved the cost of SATA drives) and a DVD-RAM drive for > backups. > That sounds good. I'm seriously thinking of replacing my server (Pentium 4 HT 3Ghz, with 2GB Ram and about 4 hard drives of varying sizes) with a dual core Atom. For the most part my server sits idle. It does run VMWare and in that two e-mail server VM's (which when I get round to it will be reduced to 1 VM e-mail server). Other than that it mainly runs Samba as file storage for the network. I figured replacing the box with an Atom 330 and maybe 2 or 3 large 'Green' hard drives would substantially reduce my power usage.
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