Hi Tom,
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 03:05:27PM +0100, Tom Sykes wrote:
> I've been looking in to various options here, but have discovered that
> most colo providers are now imposing power usage caps, usually of
> between 0.5A and 1.0A. This scares me somewhat, as my current server
> (Dell PE1425 - dual Xeon) is using 1.8A.
>
This is very common in London.
> Where on earth does one find a 1U server that consumes only 0.5A of power??
>
We (lug.org.uk) bought a supermicro server. Server porn here:-
http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/LOUBox
Which is one of these:-
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015M-T+.cfm
With two SATA disks onboard.
It uses 0.6A iirc.
Cheers,
Al.
