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Hey, you guys think a 550W PSU would be enough for 12 hard drives?

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JackBurton

Lifer
I'm planning on building my ULTIMATE file server and I'm gonna use this case. I've got plenty of drive bays but I'd like to know if 550W would be enough to power the drives and teh rest of the system. The drives will be running in RAID5 with 2 Promise Supertrak SX6000 controllers. The other stuff I'm not set on but I'm thinking a Tyan or Supermicro server board with 64bit PCI slots, and I'm most likely gonna go with a single P4 Xeon and if I need something more I can throw in another Xeon. I'll probably only have 512MB of ram and a basic Radeon with dual monitor support, a decent sound card, and a DVD-ROM. Other than that, that should be everything.

So what do you think, would 550W be enough?
 
Originally posted by: Pariah
Promise sells a 15 drive RAID enclosure with a 300W PS.
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Hmmm, I just took a look at the Promise UltraTrak RM15000. VERY interesting. I might just have to get a rack for that baby. Thanks Pariah. Yet another thing to look at. I like the Promise solution because it is expandable. Very cool!
 
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