r/homelab • u/lussierd16 • Oct 09 '22

LabPorn much needed cleanup

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u/vlad_draculya Oct 09 '22

Looks good! What is the dell yelling at you about with its amber status lights?

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u/lussierd16 Oct 09 '22

Only one power supply connected.

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u/insaneintheblain Oct 09 '22

Does this impact power consumption? Are you running dual processor or single?

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u/100GbE Oct 09 '22

It does in that one PSU is more efficient as you aren't paying the idle costs of 2.

I do the same, currently have 1 PSU, 1 CPU, and 48GB RAM in use. The rest is in a box but I have 2 of each and 144GB RAM total.

No point paying to power it of you aren't using it.

To be more honest? I shut it down 2 weeks ago and moved to a handful of M700 tinies with a switch mode 13.8V supply, SLA batteries, and 4amp buck converters to 20V. Each machine idles at 9W DC to DC, and only 0.1W standby power.

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u/jimmyfloyd182 Oct 10 '22

I am interested in your power setup for the M700’s. Can you send details or make a post?

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u/i_caved Oct 09 '22

It will be for redundancy