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I feel like an petrochem refinery with my 44 spinning rust units NAS 847E16-RJBOD, 48 port POE+ 10 GbE switch, 2 lights-out and environmental monitoring UPSes,
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
I feel like an petrochem refinery with my 44 spinning rust units NAS 847E16-RJBOD, 48 port POE+ 10 GbE switch, 2 lights-out and environmental monitoring UPSes, and DECISO OPNsense router using a combined average of 1264W. ]: One UPS is at least reporting a power factor with an efficiency of 98%, while the other one isn't as great at 91%.
APM is disabled on all HDDs because it just leads to delay and wear for mythological power savings that isn't going to happen in this setup. Note that SMART rarely/never predicts failures, but one of the strongest signals of drive failures is slightly elevated temperatures (usually as a result of bearing wear).
This creates enough waste heat such that one room never needs heating, but cooling isn't strictly needed either because there's no point to reducing datacenter ambient below 27 C.
- syntheticnature 3y agoI was looking into water heaters that use heat pumps recently, and a lot of them function by sucking heat out of the room. While water and computers don't mix, might be an even better use for all that waste heat...
- sgarland 3y agoMy plan for when I build a house (so far with two moves during my serious homelab period, the room layout hasn’t worked) is to build a small server room that vents out to the heat pump water heater.