>From my analysis with 3Ware at 32 drive configurations, you really
need to power the drives from a separate power supply is you have
more than 16 devices. They really suck the power during initial
spinup.
Jeff
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:48:20PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 432watts. This will go down alot after all your disks spin up, but I'm
> > amazed your system boots. Morale of this message: Don't be a dipshit and
> > put 12 IDE disks on a single power supply.
>
> I've run a dual athlon set up fully loaded with cards with 10 disks - that
> takes a 550W PSU but works
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