Power supply evaluation please!

edenCC · 11-19-2009, 07:04 AM

Hi, Guys,

I need some help here - It's about the power supply for 5 servers. Frankly I have no such experience, but now it's needed urgently.

I have 5 servers in total:
4 one-unit servers,they all have 2 disks and 16 GB Ram.
1 storage server, which is four-unit, with 15 SATA disks,

So how much power supply should I requested please? Is there anyone have some exp. please?

edenCC · 11-19-2009, 07:05 AM

The hosting company would only share 550 watts, but I'm wondering it should be enought.... any suggestions please?

salasi · 11-19-2009, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by edenCC

I have 5 servers in total:
4 one-unit servers,they all have 2 disks and 16 GB Ram.
1 storage server, which is four-unit, with 15 SATA disks,

There is no way that knowing the height of the servers is sufficient to estimate the power requirements. I would suggest that you look in the literature from the organisation that manufactured the servers to see what they say the power consumption would be, although this won't help if your servers are less than fully loaded, as then they may be able to use power saving measures which won't be fully taken into account.