Yesterday Evening I replaced my HP z240 that was sitting on a shelf with a Rosewill 2U 15" chassis (center image)
TheRosewill machine is an AMD 4, Ryzen 5 5600X @3.7Ghz with 6-core/12-threads. 32 GB (4x 8GB) of DDR4 DIMMS. A B550M AORUS ELITE microATX board. With a 1TB NVMe SSD, NVIDIA Quadro P1000 for PLEX transcoding and lastly a SFP+ 10gig network card. I also replaced the stock MOLEX fans with Noctua redux PWM fans.
The upgrade was primarily to satisfy my OCD and get the “PC on a shelf” replaced with an actual rack mounted computer. The AMD cpu is a bit more powerful than the previous intel i7-7700 and can run the minecraft hosted worlds a bit smoother, and doesn’t interfere with PLEX serving or transcoding at all.
Both the PLEX server and synology data storage server are linked with 10 gig through the 10gig Unifi X16 switch.
The entire setup is inside of a 18U wall mounted and enclosed rack mount with four 120mm fans for ventilation on the top and bottom.
Rack explained top to bottom: U1 - Unifi-8p-60W switch for PoE to my two Unifi-IW-AC units.
U2 - Keystone Patch Panel for inter-rack connections and connections throughout house.
U3 - Unifi-X16-10G switch (12 SFP+ ports and 4 8P8C ports, all with 10Gig speeds)
U4 - vented blanking panel with 4x 80mm USB fans for added cooling
U5 - Unifi Dream Machine Pro with 4TB internal HDD for recording
U6-8 - Shelf holding my Modem and MoCA adaptor and assorted power bricks
U9 - Blank panel
U10-11 - new Rosewill 2U chassis
U12 - vented blanking panel
U13-14 - Synology RS1221+
U15 - blank panel
U16-17 - Cyberpower UPS
U18 - PDU
Looks so cool! How much juice is the whole rack pulling?
Last I checked it was ~200W on average for everything and only gets up to about 250W when the main server is pegged at 100% usage.
That’s surprisingly lower than I expected it would be for all that
In essence those are just a PC, switch, NAS, and UPS…
Damn that’s good, seems really power efficient for something that big.
My whole homelab pulls something like 150 for 2 Servers (one ryzen 5 and one i3 8th gen). 200 seems not so much for urs. Have you done any power optimisation on your machines?
by power optimization I assume you mean like overclock tuning on the mother boards and adjusting sleep schedules, HDD sleep timing and the like? I admit I haven’t done much of that. just stock power and sleep settings.