building rig with LOTS of hd's.. best psu?

allllec said:
Says 0.4-1amp ontop of all my sata hard drives? :confused:
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I'm talking worst case scenario like 15k RPM SCSI. The WD400 sitting on the desk in front of me (nice paperweight) says 0.63 A 5 VDC and 0.32 A 12 VDC. You're quite right. I simply want to suggest that a big honkin' 600+ W PSU is not necessary.
 
Just checked a power calculator and it only adds 25W per hdd. Even with 10 in there you're looking at 300W max from them all going full blast.

The Corsair 520W (that's sustained output rather then max that most PSUs show) will be plenty for that system.

You're worrying about nothing mate ;)
 
Hmm. Maybe my tagan 480w psu'd do it.. its out of warranty now i imagine so i could stick a big fan in that.. at least for the time being.. i'm going to add hdds up to max capacity (10) as and when they get full, that way, i can start getting 2tb drives etc as my 3rd or 4th 1tb gets full :D
 
would a corsair 520w psu do if i happened to use, say, a P4 3.2 prescott instead of that XP-M? :eek:
 
Skree said:
we're talking initially 5tb of data going up rapidly (20gb+ a week) over the years, and i've had a rig killed when a psu died before. DO NOT want to lose that kind of data.
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if this is important data i would look at having a mirror of the data stored somewhere preferably a second location
 
binaryknight said:
if this is important data i would look at having a mirror of the data stored somewhere preferably a second location
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Yep just waiting for the new high density dvd discs and writers to become reasonably priced, and ima keep backups then - I do it with DVD's now but they're getting a bit volumesome to keep doing it (1000 dvds takes up a lot of space) - It's not that important that i'd pay a lot of money for uber backups, but i'd be pretty upset if i lost it all certainly.
 
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