Hardware power draws...

[Endymion]

Any sites out there that have the power draw that various hardware takes? I have a system here that has 7 hard drives in it, and they had only put in a 300w power supply. Has been running fine for a month or so, but just wondering if/when it might need a bigger power supply

P4 2.0
512MB DDR
Radeon 7000

etc

 

[Bovinicus]

It is probably a good 300W PSU then. Or, you don't use all 7 hard drives very often at the same time. If you were to use a stability testing program that would use all 7 HDDs at once then you might crash your system.

What kind of PSU? What are some of the other components in your system (CPU, Memory, Video, etc.)?

 

[Endymion]

Umm, the other specs are listed in the first post. There is also a propietary DVR card in there that controls input from 16 cameras...that is why there are so many hard drives in there, this computer is the heart of a security system. The power supply is an AOpen

Had I built the computer, I would have used a 450w and put the whole thing in a 24" case. I had to install the 6 extra drives, ended up having up hack up an old drive bay case and modding it in there so I would have the room to add the extra drives.

 

[Bovinicus]

Goto Passmark's website and try their Burin utility. I think it will allow you, with proper configuration, to use all of those drives simultaneously.