On 8/21/08, Will Murnane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Corsair TX750 that is quiet, reviews well [1] and is only > about $120 now. It claims to produce 60 amps on the 12V rail, which > is enough to do 15 drives.
Wow, thanks for the quick reply. I will look to see the dBA for that PSU. If it's low enough, I'll go with that one. I'll be using an Athlon 64 that has lower power requirements, a mobo, a PSU and a boot drive. So total will be 16 drives + CPU/mobo/RAM + PCI-X card + optical (as needed) + fans. I have this mobo/CPU/RAM combo already at home now running snv_94 + ZFS and it works well and is pretty quiet. Current config: Case: Antec P182 Mobo: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Aud/2GbLan/SATA/RAID/1394 ATX CPU: Athlon64 X2 Dual Core 4450e 2.3GHz 2x512k 45w Retail RAM: 4GB(2x2GB) DDR2 PC6400 800MHz Matched Pair Kingston Optical: LiteOn 20A4P 20x IDE DVD+/-RW Video: Asus GeForce 8500GT 512MB TV-Out/DVI Silent Edition Boot Drive: Seagate 320GB 16MB cache IDE PSU: CoolMax PS-V500 500W 6x Seagate 1TB 32MB cache SATA2 CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS9700 19.5dBA heatsink/fan However I only have 7 drives total in that box if I recall + optical. I didn't figure I needed to shop for a special-needs PSU for that one. However for these larger disk quantities I wanted to make sure I could do it all :) This time around, I can use a SATA boot disk (or two, if the PSU will support it and mirror it using SVM?) since I will have the extra onboard SATA ports. The current config I used only onboard SATA ports, so I had to go back to IDE for my boot disk. I plan on using the same config above (Mobo/RAM/CPU/Video/Optical/CPU Cooler possibly too) _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
