[mythtv-users] How the heck do I pick a power supply???

Mercury Morris mercury.morris at gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 18:03:57 UTC 2006


On 10/23/06, Stephen Boddy <stephen.boddy at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Its the CoolerMaster Stacker. Awesome case. It's a huge full size tower, with
> 11 top to bottom 5¼" inch bays. Then I have two disk cages that take up three
> bays each. These soft mount 4 x 3½" drives, and have a 120mm fan to blow air
> over the HD's. Drives and cages have a tool-less rail system for easy in and
> out (once cables are disconnected). Mine is black and silver, has castors to
> move it around (you really don't want to try lifting it) and it just looks
> the biz.
>
> http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/index.php?LT=english&Language_s=2&url_place=product&p_serial=STC-T01&other_title=STC-T01CM%20Stacker
>
> is the model I have, but mine looks more like the picture of
>
> http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/index.php?LT=english&Language_s=2&url_place=product&p_serial=RC-810&other_title=RC-810CM%20Stacker%20810
>
> And just in case you're curious, the disk setup is a bit of a mongrel.
>         1 x 80GB system disk
>         3 x 250GB PATA + 3 x 250GB SATA
> The 6 x 250GB disks are setup in a single software RAID 5. This gives me a
> 1.2TB partition using xfs.
>
> As it is setup right now, I have a spare slot in one cage (+1 HD), and could
> add another cage (+4 HD's) if I needed to.
>
> At some point in the future I'm going to buy a proper HW RAID SATA card
> (something like the 12 port 3ware card, and I'll buy fewer high capacity
> drives (i.e. 500GB or 750GB disks) to replace the collection of 250GB'ers.

Thanks, Steve.  That's just the information I wanted.  Clearly, I need
to do more research into cases, especially the Cooler Master products.
 They are designed so that all the 5.25 space (up front) can be used
for 3.5 cages and that is so cool!

A comment on your 1.2TB system: I surely envy that much capacity as my
750GB system never has more that 20% free space.  Thanks for showing
what can be done with the right choices of components.

-- 
MM


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