Unnecessary Server Build

[prospex]

I just got a free beast from back in the day; an R910 with quad E7-4870's, 256GB RAM, and a stupid amount of storage (I think 24TB RAW). Gonna throw a GT 710 in it because why not it already draws 600W idle, but the real question is how far can I increase that power consumption, for scientific and "research" purposes....

[Crawl]

It really comes down to what you are interested in or what your needs are. I run Unraid on my "sever" and then I run various docker containers for applications that I need. Currently I run Jellyfin as my media server, V-rising and Enshrouded game servers, Bitwarden self hosted password manager, Nextcloud self hosted cloud storage. You could also run something like Pi-hole and Unbound for ad blocking and a recursive DNS (I run them on a Pi 5 since I don't want my network messing up if I take the server down for what ever reason). The sky really is the limit it just all about what you want to do.

Normally I'm not one who really cares about power use but you eventually reach a point where the hardware is so inefficient that it would pay for newer and better hardware. I run my server 24/7 so there would have to be a very good reason for it to be pulling 600W at idle. For reference I'm running a 14900K, 96GB DDR5 (no gpu, I access everything remotely through Unraids webui) and the system idles around 65W with the hard drives spun down. Speaking of hard drives, you might think 24TB is a stupid amount of storage but I started out with (4) 20TB drives (60TB storage + 20TB parity) I've already upgraded to (7) 20TB drives (100TB storage + 40TB parity) and while I should be good for a little while I'm exploring options for the next upgrade.

[prospex]

Originally posted by Crawl:

It really comes down to what you are interested in or what your needs are. I run Unraid on my "sever" and then I run various docker containers for applications that I need. Currently I run Jellyfin as my media server, V-rising and Enshrouded game servers, Bitwarden self hosted password manager, Nextcloud self hosted cloud storage. You could also run something like Pi-hole and Unbound for ad blocking and a recursive DNS (I run them on a Pi 5 since I don't want my network messing up if I take the server down for what ever reason). The sky really is the limit it just all about what you want to do.

Normally I'm not one who really cares about power use but you eventually reach a point where the hardware is so inefficient that it would pay for newer and better hardware. I run my server 24/7 so there would have to be a very good reason for it to be pulling 600W at idle. For reference I'm running a 14900K, 96GB DDR5 (no gpu, I access everything remotely through Unraids webui) and the system idles around 65W with the hard drives spun down. Speaking of hard drives, you might think 24TB is a stupid amount of storage but I started out with (4) 20TB drives (60TB storage + 20TB parity) I've already upgraded to (7) 20TB drives (100TB storage + 40TB parity) and while I should be good for a little while I'm exploring options for the next upgrade.

I've already got myself something for practical use and it's much more efficient when it comes to power, just thought it would be fun to see how many watts I could actually draw from just one unit. On a side note, this thing is disgustingly loud and I love it for what it is. Might honestly decommission it and put it aside, that or benchmark it a bit.

[gwwak]

Run Folding@home to see how much power it can draw.

The server can also be used as a NAS or even a media box or a Plex server.