I currently have a couple of r720 based servers and was wondering what the power difference would be if I switched them with a pair of r730's with similar performance. I plan on re-using same drives and networking so that will be the same except server 1 will probably drop to a single HBA for both.
I tried to find power usage comparison's between the two and only found vague responses that the r730 uses less power. I also know that I probably won't ever get my money back in savings between the two setups, but might do it anyway just to get something different.
r720 - dual e5-2667v2's with 128GB of PC3L ram (8x16)
currently using ~220-260w with esxi with 6 running VM's including Blue Iris, Plex, and FreeNAS)
2-HBA's (9207-8i and HBA330) with 16 SSD's (4 SAS3 and 12 SATA)
dual SD card reader
128GB SSD on SATA controller
r720xd - dual e5-2650v2s with 128GB of PC3 ram (8x16)
currently using ~145w at basically idle (esxi with 2 VM's running FreeNAS as backup server and APC shutdown)
Single HBA(9207-8i) with 4 HDD's and 2 SDD's
dual SD card reader
intel 16GB optane in PCIe adaptor
replace those with
r730 - single e5-2695v4 with 128GB of PC4 ram (4x32)
run same items as r720 except single HBA330 mini
r730xd - single e5-2690v4 with 64 or 128GB of PC4 ram (4x32 or 4x16)
run same items as r720xd except HBA330 mini
I tried to find power usage comparison's between the two and only found vague responses that the r730 uses less power. I also know that I probably won't ever get my money back in savings between the two setups, but might do it anyway just to get something different.
r720 - dual e5-2667v2's with 128GB of PC3L ram (8x16)
currently using ~220-260w with esxi with 6 running VM's including Blue Iris, Plex, and FreeNAS)
2-HBA's (9207-8i and HBA330) with 16 SSD's (4 SAS3 and 12 SATA)
dual SD card reader
128GB SSD on SATA controller
r720xd - dual e5-2650v2s with 128GB of PC3 ram (8x16)
currently using ~145w at basically idle (esxi with 2 VM's running FreeNAS as backup server and APC shutdown)
Single HBA(9207-8i) with 4 HDD's and 2 SDD's
dual SD card reader
intel 16GB optane in PCIe adaptor
replace those with
r730 - single e5-2695v4 with 128GB of PC4 ram (4x32)
run same items as r720 except single HBA330 mini
r730xd - single e5-2690v4 with 64 or 128GB of PC4 ram (4x32 or 4x16)
run same items as r720xd except HBA330 mini