How much power does your storage rig draw?

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Just curious here. Especially those running a super low power setup and then external raid storage connected via eSata or USB3.0.

I have an R710 that serves as my primary storage area (as well as a test bed for stuff via ESXI) and it draws about 120w normally.
 
Supermicro X9SCM-f-o
Xeon E3-1230 - Cooled with Corsair H50
16GB Ram
1 USB Stick (for ESXi 5)
1 2.5 laptop HDD
6 Samsung F4 204UI in Raid-Z2
2 Fans

Draws 70W idle
Draws 130W BOINC (100% load)
Draws 155W Prime 95 with AVX extensions (100% Load)
 
My NAS box:
- AMD Athlon X2 4000+
- Asus M2A-VM board
- 4GB DDR2
- 1x WD 320GB Blue caviar (system)
- 4x Samsung HD204UI in RAID5
- BeQuiet 300W Pure Power L7

Idles around 80Watts throughout the day. I'm planning on swapping the old AMD rig for a pentium G620 rig, That should help a bit too.

My diskless ESX rig idles around 40Watts with the following specs:
- Core i3 2100
- Gigabyte H67MA-USB3-B3
- 16GB Corsair XMS DDR3
- a random 4GB usb stick
- BeQuiet 300W Pure Power L7
 
Supermicro X8-DTH6F dual hexacore
48GB memory
24 x 3TB 7200rpm
When disks active and idle 400 watts.
When in use 500-550 watts.
Under heavy I/O and CPU 600-650 watts.
But, I use spin down and sleep all HDD after 1 hour of idle, takes it down to 261-270 watts.
Corsair 1KW PSU.
 
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AMD 6-core, 16GB RAM, 14x 2TB WD Greens 5400rpm
idle with HDD spindown 110 Watts
during scrub 210-220 Watts
 
there was a thread about w/TB.

But I figure that the wattage does not matter. The cost of not having the data available is much higher than the cost of having the data available.
 
two Supermicro X8-SIA systems with i3 processor
24gigs ram
20 hatachi 1tb disks (never spindown)
2 hitachi 2.5" 250g laptop drives
2 ocz vertex 2
2 intel 311

System only draws 140watts.
HIgh disk load brings it to 200watts.
 
About 100watts in idle and when in normal use like movie streaming around 180watts depending is it has to transcode or not.
 
Intel X3440 CPU
Intel 3420GPLX Motherboard
12GB RAM
HP P410 RAID Controller
8x2TB Hitachi HDD
1x1TB Seagate HDD
5x120mm fans
2x80mm fans

130Watts on load
 
AMD Athlon X2 250
2GB RAM
1x250GB 2.5" WD
4x2TB WD
1x2TB Seagate
2x2TB Samsung
2x70MM fans

55w idle
70w streaming
125w parity update

Wouldn't mind moving onto an FM1 board but still waiting on a board providing x8/x8 for two RAID controllers I have. Along with a A4-3300 which looks to idle at 20w system load, the controllers are 9w each, shouldn't be too hard to undervolt the CPU right down to shave a few watts.
 
ASUS P8B WS
i5-2400S
16GB DDR3 (4x4GB)
IBM M1015
4x 250GB 7200RPM first-gen WD RAID-Edition drives
2x 500GB 5900RPM Seagate LP drives
2x 3TB 5x00RPM Hitachi CoolSpin drives
1x 160GB 5400RPM Seagate 5400.3 2.5" drive
Old Intel PCI dual 10/100 NIC

116-117w at idle w/ my Kill-a-Watt. The 250GB drives are power-hogs, and I'd like to replace them with some newer faster stuff, but I haven't decided with what yet. I had originally thought 4x 300GB VR's in the same RAID10-like ZFS setup, but then I thought maybe 3x 450-600GB VR's in a 3-way mirror.. but with SSD prices dropping, I'm thinking of going with like 4x 128GB SSDs in a RAIDZ1.
 
Asus P8B WS
i3-2100
8GB DDR3
1x 500gb WD Green (windows drive)
8x Samsung 2TB 5400rpm drives
LSI 9260 8i controller
Seasonic x650 gold
4 fans set on low

Idles with the raid array idle at 48-50 watts, disk drives 72-78 w, full load (rarely) 110 w+. This thing was made to be the most efficient as possible. When ivy bridge comes out I plan to slap a low wattage xeon in it and switch to a low voltage ECC DDR3 ram.
 
AMD Athlon II X2 250
16gb DDR
Br10i SAS HBA
3x SSD
4x 2TB Hitachi 5k3000
couple fans

Idles about 70-80W
 
Some nice low numbers here, i may have to check mine and see what it draws and if i can re-configure it...
 
SUPERMICRO X9SCM-F
Intel Xeon E3-1230
Kingston 4GB ECC DDR3 1333
2x Intel SASUC8I
8x Hitachi 5K3000 2TB + 6x Samsung HD154UI 1.5TB
Antec 1200 + CP-850
7x Noiseblocker Multiframe M12-S1 + 1x Noiseblocker BlackSilentPro PK-1
WHSv1

Idle 125W
Load (Prime95) 197W
 
CPU:Intel pentium g620
Mobo: Intel DH67GD
RAM: Kingston 2x2GB
PSU: Seasonic 330w SII Bronze
OS HDD: N/A(I boot off a random 8GB USB flash drive)
DATA HDD: 5 x Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 5K3000
CASE: Fractal R3

Idles at 50W. After 15 minutes of non-use, the HDDs spin down, and it idles at 30W. During continuous normal use, I don't see it going over 70W.
 
sadly yr thread died ages ago ;P

cpu: 5050e
board: gigabyte 740g
ram: 2g kingston
psu: 750w chieftec 75% ;/
14-18x 1,5-2tb drives
case: chieftec bigtower

spindowned idle: 70w (main operating state of the boxes)
poweron idle: ~110-150w
bootup: 140-190w
 
asgards said:
sadly yr thread died ages ago ;P
Click to expand...

yup, may it rest in peace

heck, even my server has changed significantly since its entry in the thread

nice though that the thread was remembered, must have been some use at the time.
 
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