From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 21 0: 6: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from borja.sarenet.es (borja.sarenet.es [192.148.167.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C040837B41A for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from borjamar@sarenet.es) Received: from there (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by borja.sarenet.es (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7L75HV04414; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:05:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from borjamar@sarenet.es) Message-Id: <200108210705.f7L75HV04414@borja.sarenet.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Borja Marcos To: Hodge Podge , Michael VanLoon Subject: Re: 3ware stuff not ready for heavy duty useage-followup Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:05:17 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: val@picturetrail.com, mike.wentz@3ware.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Borja Marcos References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday 21 August 2001 03:37, Hodge Podge wrote: No, 300 watts is plenty. IDE's do not use as much current as SCSI drive= s > and I have run more scsi drives than that on a 300W Power supply. > > Now I suppose it would depend on the amount of activity and the drives > particular sensitivity, but that only makes the case more so in some wa= ys. > How much coddling do the IDE's need then? =09Have a look at the specifications and check the temperature after some= =20 hours. Modern, high-performance disks generate enormous amounts of heat. =09Borja. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message