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... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
