Dell Server Power Use

[Danny862]

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!

 

[Danny862]

Buy yourself a little plug watt monitor, its hard to get the real output of servers by just looking at the server specs or using the rack advisor.

I had an esxi test box using a Athlon 64 X2, its quite crap for doing any proper stuff, VM's run slow.... only useful for learning esxi shell type stuff.

I will look into this! Maybe a local hardware store will have one?

The server is slow! Running Server08r2, WHS and Ubuntu... It drags along.

The Dell server does have 2 slots for PSU's, but it only has 1 installed because i really don't need redundancy for a home server.