I am basically set on this as my first home server. I need to know once I stick 3 hard drives in there what the power draw will be roughly. I can't afford to jack up the price on hydro. Also will I need a RAID controller with this?
Also Home Server Builds welcome.
Server in question: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/HP-DL380-G6-2U-Server-1x-Intel-Xeon-QuadCore-E5520-2-26GHz-8GB-DDR3-P410i-/201507915345?hash=item2eeacec651:g:23kAAOSwqYBWmVJD
>>52651004
I would guess around 150 watt in idle with 2/4 drives.
Generally rack servers = high power consumption. Not really something you should be looking for if your aiming for low power consumption unless you gut the internals and stick low-power components in.
HDD drives are around ~5-10W each idle depending on the product. Check reviews.
>>52651004
>wants a home rack server
>doesn't want to jack up his utilities cost
>>52651557
It can be done, just use a more energy efficient server.
>have a few servers running
>oldest one is dual socket opteron 60nm
>shits hungry
>live at work
>employer pays the electricity
>don't care to measure consumption
life is good
>>52651660
>enterprise grade hardware
>low power consumption
chose one, and only one.
if OP truely wanted just a home server, there are plenty low wattage options, like a NAS box or hp micro server.
the problem is that OP wants something loud and ugly to look at when he comes home from kindergarden
>>52652537
HP microserver is enterprise grade hardware: iLO4, ECC memory, Xeon E3 CPU etc and extreme low power consumption.
Server shit does not magically consume a shit ton of watt compared to similar desktop components, old hardware does.
>>52652791
This.
I am running a T20 with a similar configuration (Xeon E3, 12 GB ECC, 1x SSD, 2x 4 TB WD RED, Debian).
Idle power consumption is around 16 Watts.
ayy lmao
How'd I do? Snagged this pup the other week
>SuperMicro X8DTL-i
>two Xeon E5506
>4x2GB PC3-10600R
Just need a PSU; I could just use the one I have since it supports two different 4+4 pins
my shitty home server:
>>52653788
>>52653744
Forgot to mention, got it for $158
Is 36 very hot for my raspi?
>>52651004
Currently building:
>Supermicro X7DBI+
>2x Xeon L5420
>4x4GB FBDIMMs
>2x WD Green 2TB RAID 1
>Corsair RM450 80+ Gold
>>52653744
If you're concerned about power consumption, you might want to swap those CPUs out for two L56 series Xeons.
You've got two 80w quads without HT right now. You can pick up a pair of L5630s for around $20. They're hyperthreaded, 40w each, and run at the same clock speed but support turbo boost.
>>52651004
If you're concerned, the cpu alone will idle at above 50w. Also, you don't want to RAID power saving HDD's. If you really want to go with this chassis, pick up one of the lower watt cpu's on ebay. From personal experience, these servers are more or less obsolete at this point, and you're better off going onto an LGA1155 board so you can later upgrade to a v2 Xeon when they drop in price.
>>52651004
get a mini itx with a onboard cpu, and if you really want a rack mountable case just buy one and build it from scratch, it'll save you headache from the sound & possible propertiery fan headers ( i had a HP before and those fans were 6 pin and regular fans didn't fit in )
>>52656748
They're 5 pin generally, and 3 pin fans work perfectly fine with them.
>>52651004
Fuck you!
I am looking for one of those as a home server since years, but here the price for used servers starts at like three times that of the US for the same model.
It is neigh impossible to directly get them from the previous owners as basically you will always have a company that is already standing there taking them before they are even shut down.
Was running Linux but I change it up for experiments.
>>52656796
My older HP had 6 pins, it's better to make one yourself literally E5-2670 are 100 bucks anyway
and you'll be using same power as that noisy server.
>dl380 g5
>uses 280-300w doing literally nothing
but I got it for $50, so it's ok
>>52657007
>$300 in motherboard/CPU combo is better
I would hope so considering that entire fucking system is $175 USD.
>>52657007
>>52657367
Add a decent rack mount case and power supply, now you're at $500 vs $175 and still have no RAM in the more expensive custom build.
>>52657522
enjoy your sound, servers ain't cheap if you want cheap onboard cpu's are better if its just filesharing + plex.
You will dump that server out of the window after 10 mins in your room.
I've had many 1-4u servers, in the end you'll spend the same amount of money on bills for your power then building a cheap onboard cpu server.
>>52657695
>buy one with low power CPU
There's your power consumption fix
>don't buy a 1U or 2U
Now you have larger fans that if needed can be swapped out for near silent fans.
>>52652501
Install a grow-op bro and say you installed a new server set
>>52654597
>greens
Retard
>/g/ gets extremely autistic about the power consumption entry level rackmount servers
>simultaneously has no problem with people who leave their personal workstations and gaymer PCs running 24/7
For real, why? I doubt a lot of people on /g/ are running for-profit ventures with these systems.
>>52658252
Capacity is far more important than speed for this server.
I've got two SSDs in RAID 1 and four WD Blues in RAID 10 for my main system.
>>52658252
Why give a fuck when your network will probably bottleneck you before your drives do?
>>52658350
this
to use the speed of ssd's you need 10gbit
>this thread
>implying anyone here needs something more than a Banana Pi to run their weeboo file servers
What do you guys think about using a raspberry pi 2 as a low power server? Use it just for sftp transfers
>>52659320
there are better options, i.e. anything with a sata bus
>>52659440
But you can't really get all that speed over the network. Especially just using 2.4 ghz
>>52659466
Yes you can.
>>52659489
How?
>>52659466
The ethernet port runs on the USB bus, so the thing grinds to a halt when doing intense network i/o
There are much better options for the same price or less
>>52659502
Watch Linustechtips
>>52659504
I've got a 2.4ghz wifi Dingle on it, no use through ether is what I meant above
>>52659549
Plug a Intel compute stick into it for added power
>>52659571
But I do get max 2.4 ghz transfer speeds out of it already.
>>52659585
But you could get more via the Intel compute stick
>>52659549
If you are happy with a 11.5 Mbps max transfer rate (on a perfect signal), then by all means go for it. But I would never recommend doing that to anyone since it's ridiculously slow by modern NAS standards and you can't perform basic tasks like streaming (let alone encoding) 1080p reliably
>>52659627
How much is Intel paying you?
>>52659640
I usually just throw my junk onto the drive and let it trickle transfer while I do other things.
Should I upgrade to 5 ghz dongle or something? ethernet would be hard to get in its current position
>>52659647
I don't get paid. Good products don't require paid shills.
>>52659691
ethernet won't be an upgrade since it's a 10/100 port. Will 802.11ac improve things? Marginally.
Since you already own it, sure it's functional. But a Banana Pi M1 is $35 and has gigabit ethernet and a sata bus, which means it will be quite literally 10x faster in real world scenarios
>>52659691
Have you considered a coaxial cable? Or fiber line?
>>52651004
basically this >>52651061
enjoy your noise and heat.
however, IME the impact on the utility bill only really equates to a few dollars per year, since the usage is spread out over non-peak hours.
>>52652791
>>52653597
Microserver and T20 are SMB hardware. Having enterprise-grade features doesn't necessarily equate to enterprise-grade hardware.
Should I throw it away or nah
>>52660804
i see absolutely nothing wrong there
>>52660953
How do I go cheap when building a home server?
Also, I have a first gen raspberry pi, would it function effectively serving static webpages and the occasional email?
>>52662831
yes
>>52662831
>How do I go cheap when building a home server?
used enterprise grade stuff
fuck worrying about power consumption anyway. my router/reverse proxy/SMTP/IMAP/IRC server is a big ass 4U rackmounted proliant from 1996 with dual 200 MHz pentium pros and 640 MB of RAM. it's awesome.
>>52651004
Expect 300w. I have a pair of similar servers that average 250-300.
>>52656823
Where are you looking? You can get a basic westmere server on ebay for $300. Sometimes less.
>>52661073
I've got the exact same hard drive and it's been hovering above 40 for years
you'll be fine
>>52660804
A quick scan will never show bad sectors btw
>>52651004
nothing could be worse than an R900 at idle...
>>52665053
What is in there 2x CPU ?
Seeing as this is /hsg/,
I've run out of drive bays on my ibm x3650 and I don't particularly want to upgrade the server as its way more then adequate for my needs.
I do have another old box that I can transplant the innards into a rack case but don't want to run it over Ethernet. Can I set that box up as a DAS and if so, how?
Yes I am a massive Jew and I don't want to buy a dell/hp/ibm storage vault
>>52665238
I'm looking at doing the same with a node 804 case
http://www.servethehome.com/sas-expanders-diy-cheap-low-cost-jbod-enclosures-raid/
You need:
>case
>sas HBA
>sas expander
>power supply
>supermodel jbod controller
>sas cables
>>52660248
>iLO4, Xeon CPU, ECC memory, SAS controller
>non server hardware
You are embarrassing yourself, dude.
>>52656823
Where are you? I'm a server & storage technician in the UK, my companys hardware refreshes are fairly regular, I personally put six DL360 G6's in a skip (after having removed the drives, NICs and RAM of course) just before Xmas when we replaced them with G9's. They just can't be bothered with selling old kit, despite our suggestions otherwise. Not that this helps you though.
>>52668511
>I personally put six DL360 G6's in a skip (after having removed the drives, NICs and RAM of course)
Fucking hell this genuinely upsets me a bit. Makes me want to start a business that buys used servers off companies that can't be bothered to deal with it and sell them on.
>>52669206
Agreed. We're binning a fortune in perfectly usable kit, but management don't seem to want the effort of selling them. Admittedly some of the kit we replace is properly out of date and not even worth selling but most of our replaced hardware is worth good money, it's ridiculous.
So out in the skip they go, which is collected rarely so every day I come in and walk past them, soaked from rain and covered in leaves and rubbish. Such a waste. Taking one home with me however is out of the question as it's all tightly controlled. They may be worth money, but my job is worth more.
power consumption of server gear tends to not be that much different from consumer grade gear, part to part. however, there are some factors that tend to inherently drive up wattage/heat when examining spec'd out enterprise servers.
one of them is ECC RAM, you need more power/juice to do the error correcting and to power the buffer in RDIMMs, for example 4GB RDIMMs are about 3-4W a piece, pretty significant when you fill up entire banks in each server.
the next thing that tends to contribute are HBAs and raid controllers. these things tend to run hot by design and have high TDPs, not to mention additional juice for powering BBUs.
another significant factor is the PCH in the Westmere platform which is what a lot of people have been buying for a while now and what I continue to see mentioned in this thread...the dl380 G6 is an okay server but it uses the 5500/5520 PCH which is hot AF, the package itself tends to consume around 30w at idle. compare this to the sandy bridge C602 PCH for the E5-2600 product family, that only has a package consumption of around 7-8w. most processors in the same 'grade' e.g. xeon to xeon, not xeon to atom, tend to have similar idle wattages. so it's more or less the other things that really contribute to power consumption.
all that being said, buying nehalem and westmere-EP gear, aka stuff like, E5520, X5650, L5640, is all a waste of money right now. The E5-2660 and E5-2670 processors have seen significant price drops lately. the only problem is you have to wait around for a good deal on a 2P motherboard from supermicro and do a white box build as most barebones builds from HP and Dell haven't quite dropped in price yet.
>>52670103
>nehalem and westmere-EP gear, aka stuff like, E5520, X5650, L5640, is all a waste of money right now
Disagree.
>The E5-2660 and E5-2670 processors have seen significant price drops lately
As have the Westmere-EP chips.
E5-2660 - 11891/$95 = 125.17 P/$
2x E5620 - 8304/$13 = 638.77 P/$
That makes the Westmere-EP solution a significantly better value.
>>52669879
Where in the UK? I'm near Nottingham.
Anyone have a VPS?
>>52671388
Price/performance ratio is a thing, performance/power consumption ratio is a whole different thing.
Westmere-EP is not only a lot more power hungry but also slower than a comparable Sandy Bitch Xeon E5 based platform.
A Sandy Bitch-E system will be cheaper in the not so long run.
>>52663701
Refer to the benchmark
It's clicking
>>52672117
Sorry mate, wrong end of the country, not far from Brighton.
>>52668511
Most companies can't be assed with selling off old hardware. That's why you contract with a reseller.
Your company makes a small amount of money instead of nothing.
Reseller makes a living.
End users get cheap powerful hardware.
Landfills don't get filled up with servers a few years old.
It's good for the environment, the economy, and every person or company involved.
You should seriously talk to someone higher up about this. There's no reason to be sending that hardware off to be crushed and thrown in a landfill. Even the bad hardware can be used for scrap recovery and recycled. This is of course handled by the reseller or the reseller's customers.
Be green.
>>52672700
The first generation E5s that are so cheap really are not all that great. Better than Westmere-EP, yes. But not enough of a difference to warrant that much of a price difference given the low cost of power and how the typical 4chan user would be using the server. It's likely not going to be running at 50-90% 24/7, and it's likely going to be a single server.
If you're talking about a heavily utilized rack or two, then yes that difference is going to be much larger, but at that point you'd be better off with even newer hardware.
You can't throw out price/performance and just focus on power consumption/performance. The entire reason to even take power consumption into account is it's cost. For a single home server, a lower initial cost is generally the better investment. Spending a few hundred extra up front to save $5 a year on a single server just doesn't make sense for home use. The server will likely be retired before you ever see a return on the investment.
Don't have pic with me but mines running a 4130T on a B85M I had lying around, 8gig of dat valuram with some WD greens for infrequent access and blues for frequent access. Linux mint because I'm lazy and it works.
Maim usage is as a UMS server and samba shares, I also host teamspeak for my friends.
Put a solar panel on your roof and run it to your home server.
>>52673051
It really depends on where you live, here a 50 watt server running 24/7 cost me around 5€ a month.
It would probably make sense for me to buy a newer more expensive but also less power hungry server.
>>52651004
How old is that thing?
>>52651004
Here are my specs:
i7 4790k
32gb ram
1 ssd 2 hdd
embedded video
45W idle (hook on a UPS so I know the exact wattage)
>>52674507
forgot to mention + 2 external usb hdd
I have a DL380 G7 HP server. It's drive bays are full, and I could use a JBOD.
S-ATA to SCSI raid array
http://www.infortrend.com/us/products/models/ES%20A12U-G1A3
This on sale privately for 115 USD. No drives. 5 drive caddies (will need to get more because autism)
What do you think? Will I be able to hook this up to my DL380? I have a HP p410i Smart Array raid controller.
Is it really plug'n'play?
>>52674771
>>52674788
>>52674771
>>52651004
probably best to use consumer grade hardware mate.
also with the dollar down the shitter it might be tempting to buy used but I honestly wouldn't. servers are made to be ran in certain conditions and thus are noisy and power hungry as fuck.
and chances are you don't need dual xeon power for your home stuff.
>>52653788
>sarah
you're not fooling anyone
How do I confirm if my dual xeon processsor setup is performing as expected?
>>52673338
>5€
There's where we're not on the same page. Our power is cheaper over here in the States. If you've got expensive power then power consumption is more of an issue for you.
>>52675234
CPUz benchmark. Reference your number against what others are getting with the same CPUs.
>>52676954
Not sure if that's available for linux
Need to get rid of my C2100, not impressed with it.
