RE: [cobalt-users] 7200 rpm hard drives

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:

> > >
> > > Anyway...has anyone tried what I'm testing here in a production
> > > environment?
> > >
> > 	It's not only the heat, it is the power.
> > 	The RaQ3/4s only have a 60 watt power supply.
> > 	We ran 2 - 60GB 7200 RPM drives for a couple months and
> > the power
> > 	supply went south.
> >
>
> What drives were you using or amps did they use? I have some 40GB
> Maxtor's here given to me by a friend that knows his hardware pretty
> good. These drives are actually smaller in size than the 15.3GB Seagate
> drives I have and he said to check the specs on both to see if the
> Maxtor's even use as much or more amps.
>

	They were Western Digital
	 5 VDC  0.8A
	12 VDC  0.45A


Gerald
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