they are Dell PowerConnect 5324 Gigabit Managed switches.
As for power consumption, there's no point getting into a "better way" of doing things - they are what they are and the servers served us extremely well with no faults and ran in 1.5 cabs pulling off the full cab's in-built PDU and the for-sale PDU in the half cab.
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(consider figuring out the email as test #1)
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