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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: nick@snowman.net, Baldur Norddahl <bbn-linux-kernel@clansoft.dk>,
	Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE/raid performance
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:27:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020417102722.B26720@vger.timpanogas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204171108480.3300-100000@ns> <E16xrfQ-0002VF-00@the-village.bc.nu>


>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
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-17 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-17 12:58 IDE/raid performance Baldur Norddahl
2002-04-17 13:43 ` Mike Dresser
2002-04-17 14:00   ` Baldur Norddahl
2002-04-17 15:15     ` nick
2002-04-17 15:48       ` Alan Cox
2002-04-17 17:27         ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2002-04-17 17:47           ` Kent Borg
2002-04-17 17:48             ` nick
2002-04-17 23:26             ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-18  6:47               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-04-18  7:41               ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-18 21:22                 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-17 17:36       ` Baldur Norddahl
2002-04-17 17:41         ` Mike Dresser
2002-04-17 17:46         ` nick
2002-04-17 22:35         ` dean gaudet
2002-04-17 23:52           ` Alan Cox
2002-04-17 20:36       ` Kurt Garloff
2002-04-21 19:01         ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-18 15:51       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-18 18:33         ` Mike Galbraith
2002-04-17 15:09 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-17 18:38 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-04-17 22:44 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-04-18  0:38   ` Mike Fedyk

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