I've discovered, the hard way, that slightly more money can get a lot
more quality out of your power supply. We're not talking hundreds extra
here, just buying something that everyone else respects and works with
over long terms.
I discovered 'cheap' power supplies sucked because I was running several
boxes with UPSs and still getting dirty power on my analyser out of the
power supply.
Sven Kirmess wrote:
> Thursday, April 06, 2000, 6:44:49 PM, Ed wrote:
>
> >> Do I need a special power supply like 300 W or what are you using?
> > A high capacity PS is always good to have, esp. in a high uptime
> > box. Having that extra wattage available can prevent power dips
> > from making things flake out.
>
> What about the quality of cheap 250 W against expensive 250 W power
> supplys? Does that matter? Here you pay about the same amount of money
> for a good (I think) power supply than for a case with supply. I could
> imagine that applications like RAID5 are a real torture, because all
> disks have to work simultaneous. Especially if the disks are the same
> type.
>
> >> What about "IDE power down when idle"? Can this blow up the power
> >> supply or crash the system when turning on 4 disks simultaneous?
>
> > Doubtful, BUT, Power Management has always been a sore spot for me,
> > I've had millions of Win PCs croak when they try to "wake" from
> > their low power mode. I blame the variety of specs, and variety of
> > BIOS, motherboard, disk, etc. manufacturers. In short, I'd avoid
> > "power down when idle" and similar, if this is a production machine.
>
> It's not a productive machine. I just don't like inconsistency on a
> disk. :-)
>
> Sven
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