[geeks] Need geek assistance

[Phil Stracchino]

On 04/18/10 10:32, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Sunday 18 April 2010, sammy ominsky wrote:
>> Jonathan Patschke 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.
> 
> ]...] Also, what rate in kWh 
> are you charging? $1500/mo works out to $2/hr, which at 3.84kW (the max 
> continuous draw you're permitted on two 120V, 20A circuits, which is 80% 
> load) is over $0.52/kWh for power and cooling, which is ridiculous.

If I were to guess, I'd guess that part of the cost equation is that the
blade server consumes all the power available to that rack, and thus he
can't rent out the rest of the rack.  So he's got a 40U rack sitting
there with 36U empty and unusable.

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