So how's that power supply holding up?

[beatle]

See the specs of my duallie. Recently I've been having problems with a harddrive that's part of a spanned volume spinning down and trying to spin back up immediately. Disk manager shows the volume is "at risk" and points to a specific physical disk. It was my 30GB drive before, now it's my 60GB drive.

I ran Maxtor's diagnostics on the 30, WD's diagnostics on the 60. Both turned up zero errors, but sometimes a drive will not start up on boot. I'm guessing PSU, but I'd rather not just throw money at the problem. What else could it be?

 

[mechBgon]

That's a fair amount of load... Two P3's, five HDD's, two optical, one Zip, floppy, at least four PCI cards and a fairly hot-running + crummy video card (had one myself 😉). Yeah, couldn't hurt to upgrade the PSU a little. Enermaxes are good for lots of 12V amperage to power those drive motors, maybe one of their 350W-450W ones?

 

[Arcanedeath]

I'll 2nd a Rec. for a more powerful PSU w/ all those drives your 300 watter may not be makin it. thats the easiest thing to upgrade / replace that may reslove the issue.

 

[beatle]

How about an Antec True330? I'd really rather spend the money on my main rig if I'm going to spend it on a PSU. Remember, those P3s only suck up about 21 watts each. 🙂

 

[Dewey]

I had similar problems. I had a flakely drive and then I upgraded my video and another drive flaked out. I measured the output of my PSU and it was very low. I replaced the PSU and everything is fine. Sometimes they just fail I guess.

 

[beatle]

Oh, I also have a 300w Fortron w/120mm fan that's pretty new and hasn't seen much action. 🙂