Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:27:22 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: IDE/raid performance |
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From my analysis with 3Ware at 32 drive configurations, you really need to power the drives from a separate power supply is you have more than 16 devices. They really suck the power during initial spinup.
Jeff
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:48:20PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 432watts. This will go down alot after all your disks spin up, but I'm > > amazed your system boots. Morale of this message: Don't be a dipshit and > > put 12 IDE disks on a single power supply. > > I've run a dual athlon set up fully loaded with cards with 10 disks - that > takes a 550W PSU but works > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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