Other than the Kill A Watt device, is there any other way to monitor the power consumption of an Unraid Server (software, hardware, etc...)?

I am also looking for a Watt-Meter for 220v (European).

 

How about this one?

 

http://www.amazon.de/Inspector-Stromverbrauchsz%C3%A4hler-mit-gro%C3%9Fem-Display/dp/B001R69TEO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298722704&sr=8-1

 

 

I just ordered this from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310266354366&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

 

Some UPSes will display the watts being used similar to kill-a-watt.

I think UPSes display the wattage taken from them - but they have some power loss on them 70-90% so they are quite inaccurate.

 

Funny, I don't even think of using an UPS. The last power down was 3 years ago, and that one was announced by the building company which had to do some road work in our neighbourhood . Seems that we here in good old Europe have better power providers ;-)

The main need for a UPS is for brown outs, not black out.  Brown outs will kill electronics.

In the UK, Maplin sell this unit which I find works quite well.  

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/plug-in-mains-power-and-energy-monitor-38343

 

(sometimes they reduce the price on this unit, so take your time...)

 

Using one at the moment while testing some new hardware for an unRAID server.

 

Just saw this version too...

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/power-strip-with-energy-and-co2-meter-348228

I am also looking for a Watt-Meter for 220v (European).

 

 

This is one that received some good reviews...also for metering low readings i.e on standby

The main need for a UPS is for brown outs, not black out.  Brown outs will kill electronics.

 

I actually have an USV device at my windows servers ( I run SBS 2008 Pemium on two Fujitsu TX100 for my businesses), but it shows zero entries of whatsorever. Zero blackouts, zero overvoltage, zero spikes and zero undervoltage. Runs for more than a year now...

 

I just have it because a customer ordered one and wanted a bigger one instead, so I had a spare USV. As they don't get better over the time I used it.