[G4] G4 Power Supply

[johnnyg]

I have been snaking the cables out of my computers for ten years or more 
now, running a fistfull of drives (especially when they were only 1gb or 
less) and using external power supplies that I bought used many years 
ago.  I think I bought about a dozen or more power supplies for 2 bucks 
each..something like that..some kind of pc server supplies I think.  But 
they come with 6-8 standard plugs and are probably 400 watts or more with 
their own cooling fans...I just pluck it down next to the computer and 
plug in a drive, lay the drive in front of the airflow from the power 
supply and sometimes I even stack the drives with rubber cushions....3-5 
high.  They are a bit loud but at one time I even build a little noise 
reduction box, and another time I ran a longer cable and put some in a 
closet.  I think you had to keep it six feet or less.....They all worked 
fine for many years...I even think they run cooler than being cooped up 
in the cases.  And I just got used to the noise as they (the power 
supplies) have some real air moving fans.  I had over ten  drives at 
least one or two times for a few years going back to the quadra 650 days, 
but figured the system "maintenance" wasn't worth pushing the limits and 
when I cut back to half a dozen hard drives,  things ran smoother for 
many more months it seemed.  

But now with these larger drives, my whole world is getting less 
cluttered.....and quieter too.

John

>Luke Rademacher wrote:
>> Very good idea... but that DOES NOT SOLVE the Power problem.
>
>It does if you *replace* the existing drives with SATA drives -
>which can be a lot larger than the current drives. Then you
>aren't adding any drives.
>
>Apparently he already has the extra ATA drives, though, so
>that is not a desirable solution.
>
>Eric S.
>
>> So good idea as you can always take out the SATA HD's for a newer machine.
>> 
>> Good Luck
>> 
>> Luke Rademacher
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>> On Sep 22, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> Luke Rademacher wrote:
>>>
>>>> FWIW, if you want more HD space why not add externally? External HD's 
>>>> often have their own power and attach via FireWire.
>>>
>>> But Firewire (or USB) drives are still slower than internal ones.
>>> Even ATA/66 is faster, and adding a SATA drive and controller card
>>> would be waaay faster. I'd advise replacing the internal ATA drives,
>>> which are subject to the 128GB size limitation, with a big SATA drive
>>> or two.
>>>
>>> E
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