Ralph wrote:
If it's not the problem now, it will be a problem later once the PS finally can't take the load anymore. My personal NL box actually has 2 PS's, currently 1 drives the motherboard, CF-IDE card, LSI raid, GigE nic, etc and the other powers the 5 SATA drives and rack, both are 500Watt.
If anyone's interested I could post how to power on a second ATX PS without it being connected to a motherboard as in my setup.
500W for 5 drives! Isn't that a bit over the top?
I just got a Thermaltake TR2 470W PS and it should be good for at least 10 drives
From memory drives use less than 30watts approx each.
I would be very interested on details of your setup with 2 PSs since it's something on the horizon with a coolermaster stacker case which has room for 2 PS. I always wondered how to get the thing to work.