What kind of PSU for 10 hard drives...

[BarneyFife]

Right now I'm running a small shuttle system with 2 hard drives but I have like 8 hard drives laying around all over 100 gigs. Since I'm having power issues with this computer, I'd like to buy a case and throw all the hard drives in there and just use that as my new system. My system will be

p4 3.2
10 hard drives
1 dvd burner
nvidia 6600 gt

Any ideas?

 

[Rike]

How about this monster?

Edit: Seriously, what mobo are you using that will take all those drives? I guess 4 IDE and 8 SATA is the most I've seen for a desktop board. You are at 11 with that set up. You'd be pushing your mobo pretty good. I guess a quality 500-550 watt would do you.

 

[BarneyFife]

I haven't picked out the mobo yet but worst comes to worst I can drop a couple hard drives. I guess I can go with the Antec 550 or the OCZ 520.

 

[aatf510]

Any decent quality 500w+ will do fine.
I am sure 10 harddrive together will use much less power than SLI 6800U.

 

[PerfeK]

You should dedicate about 18A of power to those hard drives so I would shoot for at least dual 20A rails. Maybe even 4 15A rails if possible.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: Rike
How about this monster?

ROFL! What a ripoff that thing is. $469.00

 

[Chaotic42]

I'd feel safer with two different PSUs. Spinup will suck on one PSU.

 

[KayKay]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'd feel safer with two different PSUs. Spinup will suck on one PSU.

yeah thats a pretty good idea

coolermaster stacker with 2 Antec 550's, lots of room for drives and psu's

 

[cryptonomicon]

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: Rike
How about this monster?

ROFL! What a ripoff that thing is. $469.00

yeah thats what I thought at first, but thats a nice damn psu. 85% efficiency?

 

[cubby1223]

The manufacturers put out wattage requirements on their websites. 10 harddrives on startup are going to put quite a spike in the lines, probably needed the PSU to jump to 200+W almost immediately. SCSI drives have settings to delay startup times, so their isn't the massive spike on the PSU - but IDE drives don't have that same luxury.

 

[KoolDrew]

This is a really good deal.
http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/Antec_SmartPower_20_SP_500/SP500/F09966/

 

[BurnItDwn]

depends ....
if you don't plan on upgrading your video card down the road ... a quality 430watt would be fine, if you don't want to have to upgrade the power supply in a couple of years when it's time to buy a new vidcard, then go with 500+

Most I've ever had in one box was 7 hard drives, with an athlon xp mobile 2500+ overclocked to 2.2ghz .... my enermax didn't give me any trouble at all ... (though I am down to 6 drives in that system now since the geforce 6800 is so damn big, it blocks one of the 3.5inch drive bays ..... and I didn't feel like mounting it up in one of the 5.25inch slots.)

 

[imported_whatever]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
The manufacturers put out wattage requirements on their websites. 10 harddrives on startup are going to put quite a spike in the lines, probably needed the PSU to jump to 200+W almost immediately. SCSI drives have settings to delay startup times, so their isn't the massive spike on the PSU - but IDE drives don't have that same luxury.

many mobos also have options for delaying spinup of IDE drives.

 

[albumleaf]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'd feel safer with two different PSUs. Spinup will suck on one PSU.

i actually had a friend of a friend design a pci controller card (this may go into production) for ide drives that stagger starts them in banks of four. This reduces peak power load on the psu.

I believe scsi has this functionality built in... maybe it was ide or sata, can't remember

 

[albumleaf]

Originally posted by: whatever

Originally posted by: cubby1223
The manufacturers put out wattage requirements on their websites. 10 harddrives on startup are going to put quite a spike in the lines, probably needed the PSU to jump to 200+W almost immediately. SCSI drives have settings to delay startup times, so their isn't the massive spike on the PSU - but IDE drives don't have that same luxury.

many mobos also have options for delaying spinup of IDE drives.

wow really? um, like say, mobos that everybody and their mother might buy? or special server boards, etc

 

[Vegito]

I had a powerman 300 w running dual p4 xeon 2.4 with 12 scsi 10k 146gb drives and had 0 problem.. I upgraded to a seasonic 480 w now and running dual 3.2 xeons.. still no problem.. machine is on about 24/7 running file server with VM DC, RIP and exchange for home..

but it wasn't using a heavy video card, just a matrox g550. slots used was Video, RAID and 1 gigabit ethernet.

 

[aatf510]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
SCSI drives have settings to delay startup times, so their isn't the massive spike on the PSU - but IDE drives don't have that same luxury.

Raptors does.

 

[PerfeK]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
The manufacturers put out wattage requirements on their websites. 10 harddrives on startup are going to put quite a spike in the lines, probably needed the PSU to jump to 200+W almost immediately. SCSI drives have settings to delay startup times, so their isn't the massive spike on the PSU - but IDE drives don't have that same luxury.

SATA drives have delayed startup also.

 

[wchou]

why so many hd? why not invest in 400gb, 2-3 of that would put 10 100gb hd to shame
op, you better do this in the basement where the temperature is always cool and heat from your hd is not an issue.

 

[SVT Cobra]

I'd go with a good 500w PSU like the OCZ...most importantly make sure you get the right tools to test the system first

 

[EatSpam]

Zippy 460W EPS power supply. I had 9 drives and an Athlon64 w/1 gig RAM running. Didn't break a sweat.