On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: ... > - even if you had 2 power supplies... > - most motherboards only has one atx power connector
True. And if you went for redundant PS's and a mobo that supports them, the cost would go way up. > - are the two power supplies properly doing load sharing... Usually not. I imagine that's too hard and not worth the trouble anyway: what you usually want is redundancy, not load sharing. (I mean, if one PS dies, it will overload and kill the other one pretty fast. Not a good idea. And if each PS can handle the load alone, there's little point in sharing the load.) 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. Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public key We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King in asr
