Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:38:35 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Noses <noses@noses.com> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Casing wanted Message-ID: <20010606143835.B13639@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200106062126.f56LQ4U25867@proxon.bnc.net>; from noses@noses.com on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:26:04PM %2B0200 References: <20010606100749.A5681@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200106062126.f56LQ4U25867@proxon.bnc.net>
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--Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:26:04PM +0200, Noses wrote: > In article <20010606100749.A5681@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> brooks@one-eyed-alien.n= et (Brooks Davis) wrote: > > The PC Power & Cooling Solid Steel Tower has 10 bays, 8 external. > > If you pick up one of their 500W or redundent 420W power supplies > > and a couple of drive Y-s you should be able to connect everything. >=20 > Not quite; I've spent a few minutes with paper and pencil and the experie= nce > of putting my head into a number of casings and my first guess is six dri= ves > connected. Given that the 500W supply has a peak output of 700W, you've got plenty of headroom for the startup power (216W for 9 60GXPs) unless you need tons of CPU to go with the disk. With a nice modest 1GHz PIII or Athlon system, you won't even be close to your power budget. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7HqLaXY6L6fI4GtQRAhdSAJ9lM/pkCDPJtnnamXkD5LumJ2l48gCdHBKP v4ney4vMKBZco5y4ies9KKk= =E7aM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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