On Jan 25, 2008 1:08 PM, Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If all is good with a couple disks, and then starts failing with more, > > I would expect the PS to be the problem. > > True, but.... I can have two drives connected to SATA 1 and 2, and a > third drive connected to SATA 3 sends things for a loop. If I do not > connect anything to SATA 3 and 4,instead connecting 2 drives to the > motherboard and 2 drives to my 3rd party RAID card... everything works > fine... so with 3 drives I get failures, but with 4 it's fine as long > as the 3rd and 4th are not plugged into the motherboard SATA > controller. > > I have a fairly new 600W PSU from BeQuiet in the case... so there > should be enough power for all devices.
Bigger PSUs are often harder to work with. I believe they tend to have multiple separate power subsystems. If you are indiscriminate about which connectors you use you can overload one subsystem while the overall unit is just chugging along fine. I think they call each subsystem a lane? The old classic 450W was just one big system, so all the connectors were effectively equivalent. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
