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Originally Posted by jontz
Ideally you would charge the caps after install and before you power up the unit by detaching the drives and using a resister inline so that the caps don't suck all the power at once and fry the power supply. After the caps are charged, plug the drives in and start up as normal. The caps supply the startup current and then recharge when the drives stop drawing as much power, just like a car audio cap on a subwoofer amp.
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Me thinks it would just be easier to change out the power supply.
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Originally Posted by jontz
I can't imagine that these drives draw peak current for 11 seconds. It doesn't take a drive that long to spin up. I am thinking 2-3 seconds, tops.
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I don't think they draw that much power for 11 seconds either, but I was going on what rpmurray said, which I think is what the spec says.
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Originally Posted by jontz
True about the 4100 power supply. I just hate "barely adequate" power solutions.
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Agreed, in fact if you expect to get much life from a power supply, you should run it at about 75% of rated spec or less. Just like any other electronic component(s), running at maximum spec shortens life a lot.
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Originally Posted by jontz
Seems like it would work, and I was in no way telling people not to fix the LBA 48 bit issue, trust me. I would love to have 4 750 GB drives in my unit  |
LOL, yeah, me too! But who can afford it...
