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[–] jubilationtcornpone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It might if it were really working hard but at idle it draws around 160 watts.

Edit: I was close. 140 watts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My power edge R630 was eating way too much power... It's off and being replaced with a second consumer grade PC to be my second host.

I don't really have anything that takes enough clocks to justify that pig of a machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, we're supposed to justify getting new servers? You don't just hoard them like blank notebooks?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I was... But dual 700w power supplies running a whole lot of VMs was a bit too much power draw.