Got a nice dip in power after removing 10 hard drives. Nothing earth shattering, but definitely a nice change.

Infra = servers, reolink NVR, poe switch, various smart home things, i5 opnsense box, and fiber "modem".

@thegpfury that looks like 8%

@MrsMouse

Dang, you're good!

Yeah, 8% almost exactly. I just saw the dip but didn't do any math to quantify.

8% makes me feel pretty happy!

@thegpfury My approximation was "Less than 4+1/2 hundred more than 4+1/3 hundred, so call that 440, 10% down would be to ~400 even, still a bit higher so call it 8%
@thegpfury what's the minor increase before the drop? Is that the resync happening?

@HMHackMaster Yeah. That's with the 4 new drives installed, and resyncing the storage spaces.

All 14 old drives were removed at the same time, hence the immediate drop.

@thegpfury That's pretty nice!
Let me quickly check PDU's stats...

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@HMHackMaster

Dang that's a lot of amps! What all do you have running?

Server in my case is an EPYC 7313

@thegpfury haha, I have a *lot*. 5 VMhosts (2x dual Xeon X5560, 3x dual E5520), 3 NAS appliances (22TB block storage for VMs, 8 TB object/file storage, 14 TB backup/redundancy) and the requisite 2x 48 port switches & router & switching PDU. I am lucky to have it all in a colocation facility a few miles from me (physically, lol) so I don't have to deal with the cooling or power (or NOISE!) in my house.

@thegpfury It's all older hardware (from Ebay or local orgs offloading old gear) but it serves me quite well.
I don't do big media stuff, so I access everything via S2S VPNs. It's running a workload somewhat typical of an enterprise so I can lab stuff, so AD DS/ADFS/Exchange + bunch of web servers & DB servers for friends and projects and such.

I am currently in my yearly cleanup of half completed tests and projects, slightly sidetracked by setting up my own Mastodon instance (cluster, lol).

@HMHackMaster oh nice!

I've got a 7313 with 256gb ram that I'm running all my VMs on. (DC, DHCP, internal NGINX, piholes, homeassistant, grafana/managengine, ubiquiti stack (wifi and remote edgerouters), emby (formerly used for HDHOMERUN, but mainly just playing archived content at this point), alienvault, veeam, and a unused security onion instance.

I5 with 8gb of ram for OPNSENSE

mikrotik 28 port POE switch

I've got an absurd amount of storage right now mainly for archival purposes. 8mm / vhs / photos / etc. Plus take way too many raw photos, and legacy hdhomerun content.

Colo sounds like fun! I've got a NAS offsite that I use for a backup target for veeam for safety.