My disk drives are rated to use 19.1 watts while active. My disk drives also get very hot without forced air movement. 14 such disks use 267.4 watts. That would give you 152.6 watts for everything else. I bet your disks use less power than mine. I agree with Michael, you may be exceeding the power rating of your power supply. Also, I would not want to push a power supply to the max rating. It should be sized 50 watts or more beyond what you need. Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brad Campbell Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 3:13 PM To: Guy Cc: comsatcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Busted disks caused healthy ones to fail Guy wrote: > 14 drives in 1 case? That's a big box! > It's not that hard. I have 4 drives loaded in the rear bays and 2 x 5 Way SATA Hotswap bays in the 6 front 5.25 inch bays. 14 Drives. And yes, they are on a single 420w PSU along with the motherboard, Athlon XP 2600+. and 5 80mm fans. Not much else though. I'm working my way towards a 15 drive box now. Just waiting for the new enclosures to arrive. -- Brad /"\ Save the Forests \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Burn a Greenie. X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
