It may be on the power supply casing, but I think that supply #614-0157 is 344 W. Seems a dubious task the 4 HD box?says he who has 10 devices on his desktop. Why not put the 20G in a portable FW case to haul your bank balance around? ...jf
On Oct 15, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > 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: 2102 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051015/eb846741/attachment.bin
