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I've found that enterprise gear is not exactly power friendly -- the Cisco 5510 is rated at 150W steady state, if it uses half that much power in practice (75W)
by Johnny555 9y ago
I've found that enterprise gear is not exactly power friendly -- the Cisco 5510 is rated at 150W steady state, if it uses half that much power in practice (75W), that's around $90/year where I live.
In contrast, I paid around $120 for a PCEngines APU2 (running PFSense), and it uses around 8W of power (measured).
Old servers are the same -- the amount of power they use for the performance makes them expensive to run 24x7.
- craftyguy 9y agoThis is pretty much what I ended up doing. It's a collossal waste of power (and money) to run enterprise equipment in my area for a home network that is nowhere near enterprise-level in terms of utilization.
- stock_toaster 9y agoI also used to have more gear, but hav really scaled back and consolidated. I now have one fairly beefy server (storage array, decent zeon, lots of ram), run a few vms (dev, plex, etc), and export storage. Then I have a pair of NUCs doing various things.
- cm2187 9y agoPlus hard drive capacity seems to have gone back on a steep increasing curve with 12TB drives coming to the market, offering further opportunities for consolidation.