Harddrive power supplies

[andrew.d.hay]

In article <1630 at madnix.UUCP>, dougm at madnix.UUCP (Doug McIntyre) writes:
> 
> 	I want to move the hard drive out of my Unix PC to reduce the
> drain on the poor little power supply and have a second one as well.
> How much power can an average hard drive draw? Would a 60W supply
> be enough for a couple drives or do I have to go a little bigger?

yes; the most i've seen for any hd is ~36w.  most are *well* under
this (18w for my 40M hh, *9w* for 80M 3.5").  the 67M 3b1 drives were
28w.

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