Hey folks, I decided that it was time to consolidate all my computer junk at home into one box (however dumb that may be) -- my dual 800 quicksilver. I figured I'd put all the drives I have into the computer: a 20GB for booting, and 80 GB for data for the quicksilver, a 160GB bought when I needed space, and a 250GB bought recently when another drive died. The last two would be for backups and such. I bought the controller card needed for this operation and set to work.
After futzing around, moving things hither and yon, I noticed that there are only 3 disk drive shaped power plugs, even though there are bays for 4 hard drives. I figure I could put another plug on the second power supply cord, but got to wondering if the power supply could handle the 4 drives. How would I go about figuring this out? The Apple manual says to check the electronic documentation which came with the computer, but this is long since gone. Any clues about how to estimate if the 4th drive will tax the power supply? I suppose this could be a waste of time to go to this effort to have a dyna-whopping-mega-huge 20GB drive, but I'm just curious. Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051015/c53dd093/attachment.bin
