[nycbug-talk] green monster server
Charles Sprickman
spork at bway.net
Wed May 27 20:44:04 EDT 2009
Hi all,
I was given a pretty nice 3U box that I'd like to use for a home media
tank and for some ZFS experimentation (hoping the two go well hand in
hand). It's great:
Dual 2.4GHz Xeon processors
2GB RAM
3Ware 7508 Escalade card (8 ATA ports)
8 250GB ATA drives
Backplane for said drives/card
The problem is that at idle the thing draws over 300 watts.
I'm looking for some input on how to make it less power hungry. I'm
assuming the power supplies are really overkill, but unplugging any one of
them results in a screeching alarm that can't be disabled. I'm thinking
of putting a single standard PS in there, hopefully something that's
relatively efficient (pointers welcome - most power supplies are lucky to
be 70% efficient).
I can do without dual processors. Getting rid of one should leave me with
enough to serve files on a FE network.
Too many fans, at least 10. I'll remove some until I see the temp getting
too warm for the drives.
As I can afford it, I'll retire drives and put in larger units to bring
the drive count down (see ZFS above - hopefully it's magical enough to
allow this type of tinkering and migration).
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Charles
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Charles Sprickman
NetEng/SysAdmin
Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net
spork at bway.net - 212.655.9344
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