Harddrive power supplies
andrew.d.hay
mvadh at cbnews.att.com
Tue Nov 20 00:47:47 AEST 1990
In article <1630 at madnix.UUCP>, dougm at madnix.UUCP (Doug McIntyre) writes:
>
> I want to move the hard drive out of my Unix PC to reduce the
> drain on the poor little power supply and have a second one as well.
> How much power can an average hard drive draw? Would a 60W supply
> be enough for a couple drives or do I have to go a little bigger?
yes; the most i've seen for any hd is ~36w. most are *well* under
this (18w for my 40M hh, *9w* for 80M 3.5"). the 67M 3b1 drives were
28w.
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