----- Original Message ----
> From: John Carmonne <[email protected]>
> Hi All
> I have a PM G5 Dual 2.7 with a Jive 5 adaptor and 5 2TB HDDs. I've heard
> that
>the power supply is to small to handle 5 large drives, so far I've had no
>problems, but I'm just wondering if this is true?
>
You can calculate the wattage needed from the power requirements written on
the
drives in question or find it on their specification sheets and compare it with
the wattage of your power supply.
The largest power requirement is when you boot the computer and all drive get
the juice at once. Once your G5 is booted power requirements of you drives will
decrease.
Don't know if this is true with today's SATA drives but in the old days of
SCSI
your could set jumpers with a delayed start so they all did not start up at
the
same time. Useful in servers that had many hard drives with critical power
requirements. --glen
--
You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for
those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs.
The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette
guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
