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On 19/12/2020 16:51, David Haller wrote: |
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>> The power supply was replaced a few years ago. I may buy a new one that |
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>> is a little bit larger. It has a 300 watt now, a 400 watt would give |
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>> some breathing room for start up power for the extra drives. I haven't |
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>> measured the wattage it pulls now. May do that later. |
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> Beware: I use a lot of disks and I tried running it with then 8 (or 9? |
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> or 10? Lots!) HDDs with a 500W (or even 550W) PSU. System wouldn't |
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> reliably boot up. Replaced with a 650W PSU and it's running since |
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> (which is, those 10+ years now:) Currently I have a SSD and 7 HDDs |
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> (and 2 DVD[1]);) |
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Bear in mind I'm talking about a computer the size of a washing |
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machines, and an 800MB drive the size of a tower case... |
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Back in the old days, you could configure the system so the drive would |
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wait a certain number of seconds after power-on before actually powering up. |
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So you'd work out what power you had spare above normal operation to |
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spin up your drives, and avoid overloading the system. |
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That useful feature has probably been lost in the name of progress... :-) |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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