[geeks] Need geek assistance

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, sammy ominsky wrote:

> Blades suck a lot of power for the space they're in.  We get 2x20A per
> rack, and at the price we'd pay for additional circuits, it's not
> possible to run a 4U blade server in the rack with anything else.  I had
> to quote a friend who wanted to colo one with us $1500/month because of
> the power requirements.  We run a full rack of 1- and 2U servers with
> modern energy requirements in that same cabinet.

I guess that depends on whose chassis.  IBM's, indeed, is incredibly
current-hungry.  I've heard from our IS guys at $ork that Sun's isn't too
bad, but I don't know the specifics, since I'm 90% retired from that line
of work.

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