alt Hacker NewsIf you actually were running this thing at 80% or 100% load, then the first thing you'd want to is get a better PDU and then connect your servers to that (48V DC).
If you actually were running this thing at 80% or 100% load, then the first thing you'd want to is get a better PDU and then connect your servers to that (48V DC).
One of the problems in buying used/refurb x86-64 rack servers for test and development/proof of concept environment, is that by volume in the market, there's not that many -48VDC power supplies going around, because maybe 5-10% of enterprise customers buy them. Resulting in many fewer units ending up on the resale market.
The options for AC power supplies for servers with 2 or 4 load sharing redundant power supplies are a lot greater. If you were buying all new hardware and starting from a clean sheet of paper design with lots of money to spend, absolutely. At that point also start looking at higher voltage DC distribution stuff related to open compute platform and 800VDC.
But if I were trying to make the absolute most use of $20,000 to put together a 3TB RAM server (48 x 64GB DIMMs), it would likely end up AC powered.