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    Supermicro 1U Ampere?

    Supermicro SuperServer 1U 815TQ-560CV 560 W Gold
    Supermicro motherboard X8DTi-F IPMI KVM
    2X Intel Xeon E5620
    32gb RAM
    4x Seagate Cheetah 600GB RAID 10
    Adaptec 2405 or 5405 RAID Controller

    How much would you estimate would be the Ampere usage in Coolocation for this Supermicro 1U server with those specs?

    Appreciate very much your Ampere estimates for this Supermicro server with 2 Mbits bandwidth Xen VPS hosting!
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    Which CPU would you be utilizing?
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    Oopps! sorry forget to add 2x Intel Xeon E5620 80Watts

    What would you estimate?

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    Hi,

    We have more than a rack fulled with such servers, and as my experience they are using 1.5 - 2Amps every one.

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    It'd be important to know whether you'll be using 120V or 208V power?
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    Quote Originally Posted by S4m4N View Post
    Hi,

    We have more than a rack fulled with such servers, and as my experience they are using 1.5 - 2Amps every one.

    -Saman
    What matters is power drawn (P=VI). Current usage (I) without Voltage (V) information is not a very useful information. I assume this is on 120V?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Softsys Hosting View Post
    It'd be important to know whether you'll be using 120V or 208V power?
    Thanks for the reply! We're in Europe so 220V I guess we're colocating either TeleCity Science Park in Amsterdam or Interxion in Dusseldorf

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    Quote Originally Posted by S4m4N View Post
    Hi,

    We have more than a rack fulled with such servers, and as my experience they are using 1.5 - 2Amps every one.

    -Saman
    Saman I was thinking 1,5 Amps too but didn't expect to hit 2 Amps thinking about Total Amps for the cabinet Maxing out calulating possible amount of 1U's!

    Have you been closer to the 1,5 or 2,0 mark in average?

    What's your reliabilæity experience with those Supermicros so far? What issues have you encountered? Same setups like the above more or less? Good or bad?

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    With 32GBs and 6x 15k SAS drives, my guess is it'll be near 3 Amps at 120v, and approximately half that at 220v.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HD-Sam View Post
    With 32GBs and 6x 15k SAS drives, my guess is it'll be between near 3 Amps at 120v, and approximately half that at 220v.
    Sam it's 4 Seagates Cheetahs RAID10 Adaptec 2405/5405 so you're estimating at around 1.5 Amps Europe?

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    That'd be my guess... We have the exact same setups using Dell servers and Dell PERCs running near that amperage
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    Quote Originally Posted by HD-Sam View Post
    That'd be my guess... We have the exact same setups using Dell servers and Dell PERCs running near that amperage
    Thanks for the help Sam appreciate it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by FHDave View Post
    What matters is power drawn (P=VI). Current usage (I) without Voltage (V) information is not a very useful information. I assume this is on 120V?
    you are right,I forgot to mention it - 120V.
    but hard disk was different in our case.

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    Our servers with

    2 x e5620
    48GB RAM
    2 x 500GB SATA II
    2 x 120GB SSD
    RAID card

    under load 3A@120v
    at idle its about 1A
    boot 1.5A

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    Quote Originally Posted by AvanteHosting View Post

    under load 3A@120v
    at idle its about 1A
    boot 1.5A
    Thanks for the reply Avanta I think adding the extra SAS drives to your setup overall average would be just under 2.0 Amps Europe...

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    In a 1U supermicro chassis, you'll need to put your server fans on High speed!

    Having adaptec raid would cause a radical amount of heat over a normal 1U SM without adaptec.

    Keep in mind that SAS 15K drives are usually run hotter than normal sata drives, again in a 1U setup its a bit risky, never had good experience with 1U SM with adaptec, overheating is most common even after putting the 4th fan in dummy slot.

    Considering above, estimating your power usage would be a bit tricky but I would assume around 2.3 to 2.8 amps on 220v European brackets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ASN - Aria View Post
    In a 1U supermicro chassis, you'll need to put your server fans on High speed!

    Having adaptec raid would cause a radical amount of heat over a normal 1U SM without adaptec.

    Keep in mind that SAS 15K drives are usually run hotter than normal sata drives, again in a 1U setup its a bit risky, never had good experience with 1U SM with adaptec, overheating is most common even after putting the 4th fan in dummy slot.

    Considering above, estimating your power usage would be a bit tricky but I would assume around 2.3 to 2.8 amps on 220v European brackets.

    - Aria
    Thanks for your reply I was checking Apagdigital webpage and see that they are using 4x JMC 10200rpm 40mm Counter-rotating Turbine Fans

    Are those the ones you've been using too? There is really no other choice but the Adaptec in this setup except upgrading to 5405 have you used the 3ware?

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