WD 6TB 5400RPM

Notice: Page may contain affiliate links for which we may earn a small commission through services like Amazon Affiliates or Skimlinks.

GoNode5

Banned
Oct 11, 2016
19
2
3
34
I currently have a few Dual Intel Xeon E5630's that are using about 1A/120V at the moment with 1x6TB WD 5400RPM drive how much power do you think is added to the server per 6TB WD drive? Would the power vary lets say I threw a Hitachi 6TB drive instead of a WD would the power vary anyone know?
 

Gene

Active Member
Jan 27, 2016
171
32
28
41
You can pull the spec sheet for the hard drive model in question and it will list power usage at different hard drive states
 

MBastian

Active Member
Jul 17, 2016
205
59
28
Düsseldorf, Germany
The WD Red drives (WD60EFRX)? According to the specs these are 0.4/3.4/5.6 W standby/idle/active. I can not find any low power Hitachi 6TB drives, the 7.2k drives I know of are at 9.2W active. But as Gene wrote: the specs are out there ...
I am interested what kind of setup you have with (only?) one 6TB drive per server. A Ceph cluster?
 

GoNode5

Banned
Oct 11, 2016
19
2
3
34
The WD Red drives (WD60EFRX)? According to the specs these are 0.4/3.4/5.6 W standby/idle/active. I can not find any low power Hitachi 6TB drives, the 7.2k drives I know of are at 9.2W active. But as Gene wrote: the specs are out there ...
I am interested what kind of setup you have with (only?) one 6TB drive per server. A Ceph cluster?
I'm a storage nerd the I'm doing 8x6TB on some of the L5630's basically replicating the storage nodes I currently have at OVH in order to have my data transferred from OVH to my own servers. With OVH i have 5x6TB in raid5 but I don't have to worry about power because I'm renting the server. I only have one 6TB drives in the servers now to check the power usage because I'm on a strict power plan with colocation.
 

dicecca112

Active Member
Feb 10, 2016
302
36
28
39
Well how does the colo check the power usage? Is it via the PDU? Could they get you the info?