vshah
Lifer
I have a home server that i'm planning on adding a few drives to. It currently has 5 drives, i'll be adding 2 now and a few more down the road.
currently using this PSU, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817702014
which has 29A on the 12v rail. the rest of the server is a lga775 celery and 2gigs of ram, so not much power drain there.
i want to get something efficient that will handle 12 drives down the road.
the figure floating around is 3A per drive for spin-up. mobo doesn't support staggered spinup, although if I expand further i'll need a sata controller which may support it. so 3A * 12 drives = 36A, so It looks like i'll need a 500W+ psu for this. any recommendations?
currently using this PSU, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817702014
which has 29A on the 12v rail. the rest of the server is a lga775 celery and 2gigs of ram, so not much power drain there.
i want to get something efficient that will handle 12 drives down the road.
the figure floating around is 3A per drive for spin-up. mobo doesn't support staggered spinup, although if I expand further i'll need a sata controller which may support it. so 3A * 12 drives = 36A, so It looks like i'll need a 500W+ psu for this. any recommendations?
