[Gllug] Cheap rackmount servers

[Lucian]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Andy Millar <andy at andymillar.co.uk> wrote:
> <snip>
> Yeah, I like the r210s. Nice and compact thingies.
> Andy, care to elaborate on the "colo bill"? (I can colo for free, but
> just for the sake of it).
> Afaik power management is quite decent in linux 2.6 for most hardware,
> it doesn't have to have Dell or HP written on it to work.
> </snip>
>
> To put things in perspective, I make a "profit" within 12 months by changing from a HP DL140 G3 to a Dell R210.
>
> I suspect most of the power savings are from moving to the nehalem cpus and associated architecture, which seem to have much improved power management.
>
> My R210 idles at around 35w (41 VA?) which is insanely low. You might want to add another few W to that if you add conventional disks.

Wow, nice. Will have to remember this.

>
> Andy
>
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