Slow Servers: Hosts / Spare

A picture of Spare.

No Greek or Norse God name here. This is our (currently cold) spare host. It's racked, but off.

Hardware

Supermicro short depth 1U chassis (CSE-512), 200W 80+ Gold powersupply, and motherboard.

• CPU: Opteron 4162EE (6 core, 1.7GHz)
• Memory: 32GiB unbuffered ECC DDR3 1.35V
• Motherboard: Supermicro H8SCM
• Harddrive: WD Velociraptor 1TB, 10K RPM, SATA. WD1000DHTZ

Power usage

38W idle, to about 54W max (when using hw.setperf=1.)

Ballpark figures, from a cheap meter.

Issues

This chassis uses a blower fan. Some CSE-512s have two sets of counterrotating fans. My experience so far has been with this one blower and a few with the counterrotating fans. The blower appears to use more power, while being louder and less redundant.

This particular blower works fine, but doesn't sound healthy. I'm expecting to have to replace it at some point. Unfortunately, the chassis fan mounting setups are different and it doesn't appear trivial to use fans when one is not used.

Endpoints

• spare.slowservers.net
• e3uc5rsfh7rpwe72sh3y3g36c6yk27kioauqptmrubvxw22omnrblwad.onion

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