On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:27:18PM -0700, Neal Pollack wrote: > > So it only has room for one power supply. How many disk drives will you > be installing? > It's not the steady state current that matters, as much as it is the > ability to handle the surge current > of starting to spin 17 disks from zero rpm. That initial surge can > stall a lot of lesser power supplies. > Will be interesting to see what happens here.
Hmmm, that's an interesting point. I remember the old days of having to stagger startup for large drives (physically large, not capacity large). Can that be done with SATA? -brian -- "Perl can be fast and elegant as much as J2EE can be fast and elegant. In the hands of a skilled artisan, it can and does happen; it's just that most of the shit out there is built by people who'd be better suited to making sure that my burger is cooked thoroughly." -- Jonathan Patschke _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
