Who makes good server power supplies?

[zylander]

Who makes good power supplies for servers? I need a PSU that will fit in a 2U rack mount case. The server is going to have 8 hard drives for storage, plus one optical drive and one HD for the OS.

How many watts am I going to need and where can I buy a 2U PSU?

 

[SammyJr]

I've been happy with my iStar mini-redundant PSU. They make 2U PSUs as well, in both redundant and nonredundant forms.

I have a 485w PSU and for a long time, it was running a dual Woodcrest, 12gb FBDIMMs, 12 HDs, and an Areca RAID card. I had Performance-PCs modify it so the cabling was a little more sane.

http://www.istarusa.com/custom...er/1u_2u/cp-02046.aspx
http://www.istarusa.com/server...ve_pfc/is-460r2up.aspx

 

[Beanie46]

Delta's probably the largest builder of server power supplies, Win-Tact is another choice as is Zippy.