daihard Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Hi.I have a question about the Shuttle XPC computer that I'm currently using. It is an SN85G4V3. Here's the current spec:CPU: Athlon 64 3700+RAM: Corsair ValueSelect PC3200 RAM (2 x 1GB)HDD: Maxtor SATA 200GB HDD (7,200 rpm)DVD: NEC IDE ND-3540A (DVD burner)AGP: PNY Verto GeForce 6200 (DVI + D-SUB + S-Video)I am thinking about adding another hard disk. There's space for it. My only concern is whether or not it's going to consume too much power for the box. Its power supply is not powerful - at merely 240W. Do you think another hard disk would overload the system?TIA,Dai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rons Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Here is a site that will calculate your power supply:PS CalculateI think another concern would be heat. Those are awfully small cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsden11 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Replace the smaller drive with a larger one... Like a 400 or 500 GB drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daihard Posted February 17, 2006 Author Share Posted February 17, 2006 (edited) Here is a site that will calculate your power supply:PS CalculateI think another concern would be heat. Those are awfully small cases.Thanks for the quick reply. I calculated the total power consumption using the site. It came up to 224W, though the page does not take into account any hard disks. I wonder how much power one SATA hard disk requires?I agree with you about the potential heat problem. I should consider it a bit more.Replace the smaller drive with a larger one... Like a 400 or 500 GB drive.That's an option, but I'd like to avoid doing it since it would involve re-installing the OS. Thansk for the feedback, though.Dai Edited February 17, 2006 by daihard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsden11 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 There are programs that can copy your current installation bit for bit without having to "re-install." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rons Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 You may of missed the setting - hard drives are listed up to four. Each @ 25 watts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 (edited) Yikes, Rons that page comes up blank for me! The links work, I just get a plain white screen where the info should be. I guess it doesn't like linux and FF. I revisited it, still in linux but I fired up Konqueror and I can see. So FF can't render that page for me. Edited February 17, 2006 by zlim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2cm Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 How about using a USB hard drive enclosure instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daihard Posted February 17, 2006 Author Share Posted February 17, 2006 Yikes, Rons that page comes up blank for me! The links work, I just get a plain white screen where the info should be. I guess it doesn't like linux and FF. I revisited it, still in linux but I fired up Konqueror and I can see. So FF can't render that page for me.The page came up fine for me, using FF 1.0.7 with Fedora Core 4. Yes, I missed the hard disk section. I re-did the calculation and came up with 259W, which is already more than my PS can handle! This being a Shuttle box I can substract 3W for the CPU fan, but that won't help much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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