Hi all, with the dreaded your bills are going up as always come January, I’ve been looking at an old workstation to purpose as a all in one server. Mainly storage, VM’s and my play thing, which has led me to something like a Dell T5600 or HP Z640, some offering 2x Xeon’s for little price difference.
Does anyone know how hungry these are on power during low use compared to a modern Ryzen system?
I run a Dell T7920 with dual Xeon Silver 4114, 2 spinning disks and a few SSDs. Idles at 85w with disks spinning and a few Dockers running. 150 to 200w when ripping movies or during data transfers. I don’t do anything intensive so I don’t have any high usage data.