Lots of IDE devices, how much power do I need?

Cryo · Post by **Cryo** » Tue Jul 10, 2001 8:48 pm

I'm looking at putting the following rig together after I sell off the two that I have going at the moment (celeron300@450 and 366@458). There are a lot of IDE devices and I'm not sure how much power I am going to need. I have a similar thread going on a different board and I am getting all kinda of responces. What do you guys think? how much power to run the following rig?

AMD 1GHz Athlon 200 FSB Socket A
Abit KT7A-RAID w/ 3x512MB PC133 SDRAM
Voodoo3 3500TV AGP 16MB
Voodoo5 5500 PCI 32MB (secondary purchase, may go with a different card depending on when I actually get a second vid card, assume that there will at least be a normal PCI secondary vid card)
Sound Blaster PCI 128
U.S. Robotics 56k Voice INT
3Com 10/100Mb 3c905b-TX
50x CD-ROM
Sony 8x4x32x CD-RW
2 x Maxtor 40GB 5400RPM
Western Digital 30GB 5400RPM
Samsung 8.4GB 5400RPM
Seagate 4GB 5400RPM
3.5” / 5.25” combo floppy drive
Zip 100 Internal (may go with the zip external that I already have)

Full Tower 6x5.25" & 6x3.5" bays

There are currently 7IDE devices (5hard disks, 2 cds), 8 if I go with the internal zip (quicker than the external (used for transfering the data for my Sr. thesis) Now I was thinking of going with either an Enermax350 or 431... tell me what you think please!!

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 5:18 am

I would guess the 431 - i had a ft with 5 ide and 300w antec and cooked it - replaced with a 300 w sparkle - but you need more juice for the bird

magtec · Post by **magtec** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 6:03 am

out of curiosity, why a 200mhz fsb tbird instead of a 266? the board can handle it. a 1.13/266 or 1.2/266 is only a few bucks more

LikeLinus · Post by **LikeLinus** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 10:09 am

What i'm really surprised about is my server. It's got a 250watt PS. Here is the crap i currently have installed in it

(2) 500mhz P3 CPU's
Mobo (w/ onboard scsi for 2.1 gig hd and tape drive)
40x CD-Rom
10/20gig Seagate SCSI Tape Drive
Floppy
(2) 9.1 gig Seagate Cheetah 10k Ultra160 drives
(1) 2.1 gig Seagate Baraccuda 7200rpm drive Ultra2 i think?
(1) 20 gig IBM Deskstart 7200 IDE drive
Mx300 soundcard
Adaptec 29160 scsi card
(2) NIC cards

I'm kinda amazed that a 250watt ps will run all of that! It does though, and has never had a problem over the past 8 months or more.

Cryo · Post by **Cryo** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 6:41 pm

magtec,
I've had to answer that question a couple of times thus far ;-) I want a board that can support a lot of IDE drives (min. 8) and decided to go with the above ABit board because I have nothing but love for ABit and it has up to 8IDE's. The specs that I got off the website only said that it supported a 200 fsb, I assumed that it would do 266 in an overclocked mode but hadn't confimed it yet.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 7:24 pm

well I have a system with: 4 10k hd's burner, dvd, 40x, zip100... <---all scsi a zip250, floppy, 1gigtbird@ 1300, 512ram, aiw radeon, nic, live, 2 scsi cards, and about 10 case fans on a 350w sparkle powersuply. Just info for ya.

greg

magtec · Post by **magtec** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 7:55 pm

the abit kt7's only support the 200mhz fsb processors, but the kt7a's support the 266's.