Simple Power Supply Quesion

[BigJelly]

This is a simple power supply question:

Can a 300W power supply handle 2 CDROM drives, and 4 hard drives (7200 RPM)?
If not can a 300W power supply handle 2 CDROM drives, and 3 hard drives (7200 RPM)?

 

[Ilmater]

You really need to state your other hardware, but assuming that you're not running too many fans and that you're not overclocking, 300W should be OK.

 

[boi]

It should be ok as long it isn't a generic power supply. Those things blow up under heavy load.

 

[QTPie]

I have a generic 300W Enermax PS (comes with the Enermax case). It powers 1 FDD, 1 Super Dish LS-120, 1 SCSI 2GB Jaz Drive, 2 CD Drives and 4 HDDs (1 SCSI, 1 IDE, and 2 others IDE in RAID-1) . Supposedly, it's too much for the PS to handle, but I've been running it for more than 2 yrs without any problem (1.2GHz Athlon T-bird).

Many times the drives had run almost full load i.e. I burned some stuff (both CD Drives were running) while I listened to music from RAID-1 drives (both of them must run at then same time) and surfed the net (SCSI drive is in use), or I moved data from other IDE drive to RAID-1 drives. NO PROBLEM SO FAR.

 

[lenjack]

An Enermax ps is not generic.

 

[BmXStuD]

Originally posted by: lenjack
An Enermax ps is not generic.

duh its under antec so its genric heh

 

[moronNZ]

I think you need to look up your power supply spec and see if current from +5V/+12V can meet total +5V/+12V currents from all of your devices.
Correct me if I am wrong

 

[BigFatCow]

I used to have a generic 250watt PSU with 5 hds hooked up to it, dual celeron 400's, and 1 cdrom drive. but i upgraded it to a generic 300 watt PSU and now have the 5hds and 1 cdrom with a k7s5a and xp1600+.

those comps are completely stable.