Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
On Friday 27 April 2001 19:05, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> I imagine the dangerous part would be when you turn the thing on
> and it tries to spin up all those disks. You could put them to sleep
> shortly after bootup and get the load down, but if PS doesn't blow on
> startup it probably won't blow under normal load either.
I just checked one of my 46G ATA drives. 500ma @ 12V and 300ma @ 5V, that's
7.5W of power.
A typical PSU will be 250W, even if the hard drives take double power at
spin-up time there will still be plenty to spare...
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