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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:16:41 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: James DuHadway <jduhadway@atrato.com>
Cc: Cary Kosher <ckosher@atrato.com>
Subject: Re: power consumption figures
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Hi Jim,

Thanks for the breakdown, I know you must be quite busy.

A couple-three questions.

1.  The 480 for the drives -- does that mean for enterprise 2.5"
    drives?  I'm guessing 'no' but I wanted to check.

2.  I'm not sure what the "Floorboard" refers to; there are 4 of them?

3.  Can the PS conversion loss be spread out?  In other words, can two
    disk chassis be run from one PS tray?

I'm drawing up just a bit because I'm thinking that if the average
power consumption for "normal" storage is 40 watts/TB, then this puts
the V1000 of 40TB with one head unit roughly in that ballpark, whereas
I'm thinking I want it somewhat lower.

Our "cluster in a box" 2U dual gateway (67xx) is supposed to use
300 watts.  Next week, I'm going to run one with power going through
a power meter to get the most accurate numbers possible.  Would it be
possible for me to get access to a V1000 somewhere in the Bay area to
do likewise with?  I know you're very busy, so thanks for any
assistance.

Thanks for all your help,

Andy Sharp


On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:34:31 -0700 James DuHadway
<jduhadway@atrato.com> wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> 160 Drives range from			480
> 4   Floorboard				170
> 8   Fans					 70
>     Overhead for power conversion   280
>     Total				     1000
>
>


> > On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:28:36 -0700 James DuHadway
> > <jduhadway@atrato.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Cary/Andy, checking into this.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Cary Kosher
> > > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 4:26 PM
> > > To: Andrew Sharp
> > > Cc: Don Ayers; James DuHadway
> > > Subject: RE: power consumption figures
> > > 
> > > Jim, can you help Andy with this?  Thanks.
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@onstor.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 12:44 PM
> > > To: Cary Kosher
> > > Cc: Don Ayers
> > > Subject: power consumption figures
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:18:00 -0700 Cary Kosher <ckosher@atrato.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi Andy,
> > > >
> > > > Here is some data on power consumption for the V1000.  The
> > > > controller is 425W.  The SAID is 1000W.  A system can have
> > > > multiple SAIDs/controller.  As an example, a 240TB system (3
> > > > SAID's, 100W each
> > > > + 1 controller, 425W) would be a total of 3425W.  All 160 drives
> > > > are always spinning.  Thus, there is no "at rest" data.
> > > >
> > > > Let me know if you have other questions.
> > > 
> > > Hi Cary,
> > > 
> > > So my first question is what do these numbers include.  The 1KW
> > > for the SAID sounds high to me.  From Thomas M. Ruwart's white
> > > paper, one drive consumes 2.3 watts, which puts the power draw
> > > from just the drives at about 370.  Can the fans and power
> > > supplies really more than double that?  It sounds like these are
> > > maybe 750GB drives, so maybe they use more power than the 320GB
> > > drives mentioned in the paper. Still, they shouldn't be double?
> > > 
> > > Also, does the head unit (controller) actually use 450 watts or is
> > > that what it's PS is rated for?  I thought Don said something
> > > about 250, but it was pretty loud in the lab, perhaps I mis-heard.
> > > 
> > > At 1000watts per SAID, it would be tough to get 500TB in a single
> > > rack.  Unless you know of a 120A rack ~:^)  The reason I mention
> > > that is the paper mentions 1PB would fit in 2 racks.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
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