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Phoenix32 · 05-31-2006, 03:46 PM

I did a some searching on the Seagate and Western Digital factory websites. As I suggested before, they are all using a pat standard for each drive series on their power requirements. In fact, Western Digital does not even list spin up power on some of the drives here and there. One set showed the same power requirements for an 80 Gig drive as it's 500 Gig drive in the same series. We know that can't be so. I would tend to agree with what rpmurray said about that extra 12 watts being the division line. The problem is getting usable real data on the spin up requirements for given hard drives. Storage review seems to be a good source to look, but I cannot get on their forum. Seems my e-mail address is already in use, but I have not been there in a long time and cannot remember my password and my username does not seem to be listed (beats me).

With no ability to start the drives one at a time or delay them it seems, anyone else got experience with what worked and didn't work in the 4000 for Hard Drives?

05-31-2006, 03:46 PM	#11
Phoenix32 Thermophile Join Date: May 2006 Location: Yakima, WA Posts: 1,282	Re: Snap 705N/4100 lives and thrives! I did a some searching on the Seagate and Western Digital factory websites. As I suggested before, they are all using a pat standard for each drive series on their power requirements. In fact, Western Digital does not even list spin up power on some of the drives here and there. One set showed the same power requirements for an 80 Gig drive as it's 500 Gig drive in the same series. We know that can't be so. I would tend to agree with what rpmurray said about that extra 12 watts being the division line. The problem is getting usable real data on the spin up requirements for given hard drives. Storage review seems to be a good source to look, but I cannot get on their forum. Seems my e-mail address is already in use, but I have not been there in a long time and cannot remember my password and my username does not seem to be listed (beats me). With no ability to start the drives one at a time or delay them it seems, anyone else got experience with what worked and didn't work in the 4000 for Hard Drives?