Recent content by MaloventEvil

hi all, i have had issues in the past with choosing the correct power supply for my application, so i thought i would turn to you guys to ask for help... here is my setup: norco 4220 with 21x seagate 7200.11 1.5TB drives, a highpoint 3540 raid card, and a midrange i7 (can't remember which...

yeah -- i wish the drives i got supported staggered spinup. lesson learned!

:) as said before in the thread -- 2.8amp @ 12v is not the same as 2.8amp @ 120v :)

i might make it onto the top 10 list on this site! It has: 16x 1.5Tb drives, and 6x 1Tb drives inside the case, and another 5x 1Tb drives outside of it :)

in the psu's defense (it is a zalman 1000w) it has 960w dedicated to the 12v rails (which it has 6 of). :) hopefully this fixes it! the math is sound though!

I did not know that the drives use 2.8amp each on spinup! I checked and saw that when inside the case we were using two 12v rails that provide 18amp max, but when outside, we were using 4 (2 of which providing 30amp max). I suspect that is the problem, and ordered some male sata power -> female...

Excellent idea! Trying it tonight!

No, I am booting the OS from an os drive plugged in directly to the motherboard. It doesn't even get past posting though, let alone to the boot portion (like I can't even get to the bios setup -- it just reboots before I can. If I pull some of the hotswap drives out between the reboots so that...

I tried swapping the power supply with that exact model 1200w thermaltake. It is also odd that no one on here seems to complain about any backplane issues! I have tried both the sata backplanes on the 4020 and the sas backplanes on the 4220.

Hello all, I have been trying to upgrade my media PC to add a 16x1.5TB Seagates. I added in the drives to my Norco 4020, and plugged them into a Highpoint 3540 raid card... The computer would not post -- the bios would start to post and then it would just reboot before i could get to setup or...