On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 at 6:55pm, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote > Running a bunch of CentOS servers on 2U supermicro equipment, usually with > 8 drives on Adaptec SmartRAID V or LSI Megaraid. > > In designing a rack in a data center, the question arises as to how to > measure the amperage the server uses, prior to investing in power drops > that actually do that for you, even remotely, for about $260.00-300USD per > unit. This number is the important one these days in determining > rack/datacenter design. > > So the geek question is, "what do you use, from radio shack, or elsewhere, > to accomplish this one time measurement *before* you implement a design"? Kill-A-Watts a pretty darn popular on the beowulf list -- it seems like everyone has one. Thinkgeek has 'em for $30. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University