• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

File server power supply

H

htpc_user

[H]ard|Gawd
Joined
Jun 27, 2008
Messages
1,435
My power went out yesterday while I was at work, and when I went to turn my file server back on I found that it was dead. My first guess was the power supply, and it turns out I was correct. It was the Corsair 430 watt model regularly seen for cheap after rebate.

My first thought was just to buy another one of those. But then I was wondering, should I get a lower wattage, efficient power supply... something in the 300 watt range maybe? It has a socket 775 35 watt Celeron, a stick of RAM, and 4 hard drives. I doubt I'd have more than that in it, maybe a 5th hard drive. It does run 24/7, but is the power usage negligible between something smaller and the 430 watt? One reason I might like to have a little higher wattage is I've thought about doing away with the file server, and if I do that then a PSU with higher wattage might be more beneficial to have to put in another system.
 
I'd never touch a 300 watt power supply for any system. The PSUs in that wattage range are going to be cheaply made very low end stuff for the most part. Even on a low-end server like that I'd be thinking about a decent 500 watt PSU.

Then again, if you were considering the retirement of the server, you could take this as a sign. :)
 
I saw a Seasonic 300 watt PSU. It says it's an OEM, but then I wondered if it was actually made by Seasonic or just their name slapped on it.

I thought about using 2 external hard drives connected to my TP-Link router's USB ports and doing away with the PC but when I experimented I never could see the drive on my network. I think my USB hard drive was not staying on though since it was 3.0, and the router's ports are 2.0. I don't think the router was able to keep it powered on. I need to experiment more.
 
I haven't played with the router based NAS stuff, but could see why that might fit for some uses.

Id' make sure you have the latest TP-Link firmware, and then it looks like you just open the share
or map a drive as usual. This page doesn't show any user security involved.

http://www.tp-link.com/en/faq-325.html

If you can't get the USB 3.0 drive to work, you could try a cheap USB 2.0 enclosure for the drive.
Just pull the drive and swap it into the other case.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top