June 17, 201610 yr Server spec in my sig. The watt-o-meter tells me I'm idling at about 33W. It's just a number so I'm not too sure if that's good or bad or normal etc. How much energy does your rig consume while idling?
June 17, 201610 yr I'd say that's very good. I've heard of Xeon based systems getting under 30 but I think that's rare. You have to go to an all-in-one Atom based system to do much better than 33w. My system (see signature) is composed of older, inefficient hardware and idles at about 85w iirc. It was below 80 before I put in the SAS2LP.
June 17, 201610 yr How much energy does your rig consume while idling? I'm too scared to find out. I think 33W is pretty good.
June 18, 201610 yr Another angle, 33W is a low enough number that the money required to significantly better it would probably vastly outweigh the electricity costs of running as is ... at least in this decade
June 19, 201610 yr Mine idles at ~35W. 9 HDDs @ ~0.75W 3 fans @ 2W 1 stick ram ~2W 1 controller card ~4W Platinum PSU.
June 30, 201610 yr My new skylake server is 58w all spun up and 26w with all spun down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
July 29, 20169 yr (According to my APC UPS unit) Mine does 40 watt with spun down drives and 60 watt when spun up. If it's doing trans-coding or unraring a large file it can go just more than 100 watts. Core I5-2320 8GB Ram 6 Drives totaling 13 TB usable storage and 3 fans. 13 Dockers active It just amazes me what this system can do. All at the power it takes to light a small room with an incandescent light bulb.
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