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I was wondering if an OCZ Powerstream 600W would even be enough.. but I don't know for sure..
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Wow, that is alot of roomOriginally posted by: xtwells
grimlykindo: the reason I've got so many freaking drives is that they are: SATA I 7200rpm 8mb cache 250 GB drives that I paid $100 CDN each for. I got a case that can handle them, and it has room for every single one of them.
Originally posted by: xtwells
Okay I went on the second site which seems more up-to-date..
I'm looking at this power supply (850W):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817703002
However, I am now thinking that since my case does in fact have room to mount a second power supply, it would be wisest for me to nab 2 power supplies.. One for the motherboard & Video card, the other one just for the drives.
Originally posted by: xtwells
video editing and such things.. eg, an uncompressed 30 minute film can be 300GB in itself.. what if it's a few hours, or if I have a few at once?
It is very easy to come into a situation where even 3500 GB isn't as much as you think..
I will also have 2 Gigabyte iRAMs connected to the SATA controller, which will add to my power consumption, but..
Originally posted by: xtwells
Gamingphreek:
The drives will be in raid 50.
300GB uncompressed movies: I believe you are uninformed and therefore do not understand how big a professional movie, sometimes in HDTV quality will take up. It furthermore takes hours and hours to compress it into a quality package.
500gb drives: Let me educate you. 250gb: $100, 500gb: $400.. hmmmmmm?
Cooling for hard drives: I think you obviously underestimate how the case will be setup and what cooling is planned for it.
All of the drives being in the 5.25" slots are in fact 3.5" drives in 5.25" cooling mechanisms
The remaining 3.5" drives will have large fans over them, and I'm going to make sure there's an exhaust right behind them so that the heat dissipates.
I did buy this case for the hard drive space, and I plan to use it for them.
I am obviously planning this system piece by piece, so that when I have a final product, more educated people on these forums will be able to correct my errors.
As for the PCI raid card being a bottleneck, I guess I'll judge that for myself.
Gigabyte iRAM: I am largely assuming you have no understanding whatsoever of what it is or what it does.. Especially for CAD work, this will DRAMATICALLY speed up my system, even more than the 12 or 16 drives being in raid. One of them is told to work with valueram at something like 1400mb/s of 1500mb/s (or something like that)I, two of them probably will probably hit 1500.
300GB uncompressed movies: I believe you are uninformed and therefore do not understand how big a professional movie, sometimes in HDTV quality will take up. It furthermore takes hours and hours to compress it into a quality package.
500gb drives: Let me educate you. 250gb: $100, 500gb: $400.. hmmmmmm?
Cooling for hard drives: I think you obviously underestimate how the case will be setup and what cooling is planned for it.
I am obviously planning this system piece by piece, so that when I have a final product, more educated people on these forums will be able to correct my errors.
As for the PCI raid card being a bottleneck, I guess I'll judge that for myself.
Gigabyte iRAM: I am largely assuming you have no understanding whatsoever of what it is or what it does..
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Edit: As for the PCP&C. You need more amperage. You have plenty of wattage to run the drives. As said earlier, your going to fry most anything on start-up. I would highly recommend getting this for that kind of a system: Link
And that PSU probably doesn't even have the power to start 15 HDD all at once. Not to mention the rest of the system.
Zippy 750 watt specs--+3.3V@30A, +5V@35A, +12V@45A, -5V@0.8A, -12V@1A, +5VSB@2A
PCP&C 850 watt specs---
+5V @ 30A
+12V1 @ 16A
+12V2 @ 16A
+12V3 @ 30A
+12V1,V2,V3 = 54A (60A peak)
-12V @ 0.8A
+3.3V @ 30A
+5VSB @ 3A
continuous = 850W
peak = 950W
It looks as if the PCP&C 850 has more amps than the Zippy.......
As for the PCP&C. You need more amperage.-- surely not the Zippy..lolol
Then theres always the 1 kw---
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/viewproduct.php?show=TC1KW
Now what RAID are you planning on putting these drives in? PLEASE for god-sake dont say what i think you might say.
An uncompressed 30min movie should not take up 300GB. I have 2x 160s in my HTPC and i can store hours and hours of movies on there in MPEG 2. And uncompressed movie will not take up much more.
Additionally, why are you keeping uncompressed movies. YOu cant watch them at a decent speed or anything.
Additionally, why are you keeping uncompressed movies. YOu cant watch them at a decent speed or anything.
Finally you shouldn't have bought 250GB drives. YOu should have invested in 500's or something.
"your whole plan is wrong,you don't know what the hell you're talking about, and you're an idiot"
Are you calling me an idiot right here?
You obviously have no idea about uncompressed movies and how ridiculously large they can get.. Especially if I am working on a few projects at once and need the HD space to keep it.
I will invest in what I want to invest, or what I deem wise to invest. Yes, 250 GB @ $100 CDN.
Ultimately, it's one thing to give advice and allow a person to choose whether or not they take it. It is a TOTALLY different thing when you tell them "no, you're wrong" and THIS is the way, the only way..
hmmm... does seem like Gamingphreek does know what he is talking about (at least half the timeI have a Zippy 700w PSU running 18 hard drives.... no problems. I could probably stick another 10 on there without it breaking a sweat.