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Originally Posted by rpmurray
I wouldn't be too sure about that. The Seagate 500GB drives draw a bit too much power on startup for the Snap 4000 power supply. Three will work, with four it comes on for a couple of seconds and then shuts itself down.
It might work with the Hitachis since they seem to have lower startup power requirements, but they use a bit more when running than the Seagates. I don't have any Hitachis to test this with.
Right now I'm trying to replace the power supply with a 250W unit, but it's going to require some rewiring to hook it to the motherboard, and I've been tied up at work for the last few weeks, so haven't gotten very far.
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Recently, in another message thread, someone was having trouble with 4 x 400GB drive. This thread came to mind concerning the power requirements, but then that conversation turned towards a possible limit of the 4000 and large numbers of sectors (above about 1.2 TB). Something keep nagging at me saying that was wrong, then I came back and read this message thread again.
Dave, this guy has 3 x 500 GB drives working (power was the issue for 4). For my math, that would be 1.5 TB. If we can confirm from rpmurray that he has 3 x 500 GB drives working with no problems, that would dispell that issue would it not?
rpmurray, can you confirm 3 x 500 GB drives working with no problems in your 4000 please? Any issues at all formatting or putting into and keeping a RAID 5 etc?
Ideas? Comments? I am still searching for the limitations of the 4000 (stock).