If you have access to those R630's you can get the power down pretty hard I've gotten as low as 50 watt idles with the V4 22core models and 128gb of ram. Go into the bios and set minimum power usage on the power configuration. you can get it down even lower by removing the raid card, unplugging...
You'll have to make a few more decisions on what you value before you buy more hardware for what you're doing. A great starting point is to decide the following:
Do you value quiet?
How much space do you have?
How much power budget do you want to stay in? (how many watts per hour is reasonable...
I'm looking at purchasing some used Epyc servers to build an HA cluster that won't break the bank but also won't burn down the building with power usage and I can't find any useful information on how do this without buying a few thousand in servers and just testing it.
I'm currently running 3x...
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