Wondering if anyone has a feel for the power efficiency of older server hardware. I’m reading posts from people who say they have R710 with lots of hard drive and it IDLES at 160W with 8 hard drives. So…if you take the hard drives out of the equation, it’s probably still like 120W. Is that just how inefficient old computers are? Kinda like incandescent bulbs are less efficient than LED bulbs? How efficient is the R730 compared to the R710?
My 6 year old desktop computer is 60W idle with a GPU, and 30W idle without the GPU. Seems like a huge difference. It’s like $70 more per year to run a R710 than my old desktop with a GPU. Is that correct?
Trying to wrangle in my R730XD now, have it fully populated with 12 HDDs. Did a downgrade to a more efficient CPU but it didn’t help much at idle. Replacing the 750w PSU for the 495W one did.
CPU does help during load though… running 2x E5-2630Ls.
When the disks spin down it idles a lot less so I just ordered 2 SSDs for the flex bay to migrate noisy applications over. It’s mostly a Plex/file server