Dell Server - Reduce Power

[Danielm862]

Hi,

 

I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 II (I know, slightly old)

 

Its not the standard one, but has two Intel Xeon L5310 Low Voltage CPU's instead of the 80/120W CPU's they often have.

 

It also has two Seagate Barracuda LP 500GB drives in it, running in RAID 1.

 

And 8 full slots of DDR2.

 

The system is an ESXi test server, has all sorts of stuff on it, sometimes nothing, sometimes 5-6 VM's

 

Here are my questions:

 

How many Watts do you think this would use?

How would this compare to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ with 2 standard 7200rpm drives?
What else could I do to reduce power consumption?

 

 

Thanks in advanced for your help!

[Vitalius]

@looney, because I have no idea.

[megadarkwood]

Reduce power consumption? On a Dell server? Not going to happen, unless you can find a third-party PSU that has a better rating. Dell uses their own PSUs and they have propitiatory connectors.

[legopc]

i dont know mabey get a more effecient psu 

[madcow]

I've seen on newer systems (R610, C1100) people pull out one of the PSUs to save power. That is unless you actually need the redundancy.