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I have a server containing 12 spinning hard drives, 2 NVME drives, 1 SSD.
Supermicro X11SCH-LN4F MB. Xeon E-2136. LSI SAS9211-8I. 32GB ECC. Around 5-6 fans IIRC.
All of this is running on 650w currently.
If I am calculating correctly according to recommendations, this is just enough power. But, the margin is small and I'm not sure what being short on power would look like. Would it be random, unpredictable errors? Fail at boot?
My concern has become greater now that I've had a relatively new (6 months old) WD Red drive fail SMART tests. Is it possible that being short on power caused this?
Interested in experienced advice on if I should get a bigger PSU? If so, what would be sufficient? I don't anticipate adding more than potentially 2-3 more drives max, if any. But, I would like to eventually add a GPU to use for passthrough with SCALE when it gets a little further along in development. I'm assuming that is probably a big power draw.
Thank you in advance for any insight you can give.
Supermicro X11SCH-LN4F MB. Xeon E-2136. LSI SAS9211-8I. 32GB ECC. Around 5-6 fans IIRC.
All of this is running on 650w currently.
If I am calculating correctly according to recommendations, this is just enough power. But, the margin is small and I'm not sure what being short on power would look like. Would it be random, unpredictable errors? Fail at boot?
My concern has become greater now that I've had a relatively new (6 months old) WD Red drive fail SMART tests. Is it possible that being short on power caused this?
Interested in experienced advice on if I should get a bigger PSU? If so, what would be sufficient? I don't anticipate adding more than potentially 2-3 more drives max, if any. But, I would like to eventually add a GPU to use for passthrough with SCALE when it gets a little further along in development. I'm assuming that is probably a big power draw.
Thank you in advance for any insight you can give.