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Originally Posted by jontz
Seems like a three platter drive or smaller would work from what I am hearing. 4 platter drives and larger are out because of the startup current needed. I would guess that even 5 platter drives don't draw much more current than a 2 platter once they are going, but there just isn't enough umph out of that 4000 PS to get them going.
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This is what I suspect as well... Except in the case of Seagates, I am still not sure on them because they draw lots of 12 v juice at startup compared to the others (or so it seems).