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Originally Posted by cianwill
Hang on a second, mine has 4x400 drives in it and runs off the original PS. It just would not complete a raid 5 on all 4, even when I added a second PS to suppliment the power. What I haven't tried yet is all that again with 256MB of Ram (which I now have installed). I will get back to you on all that as soon as I can backup all my data before I start trying again.
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Duh!
You just said 4 x 400. He said 4 x 500. BIG DIFFERENCE! My reply was to his 4 x 500 drives. There is an extra platter in the 500GB. Those extra platters take extra juice to get them moving. Too much extra juice for a 4000. 4 x 400 is okay, 4 x 500 is too much...