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

[Steven Adeff]

On 10/23/06, Mercury Morris <mercury.morris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I've had great luck with the Antec TruePower line, they're not the
quitest, but they are pretty darn quiet. The Seasonics are great too,
though a bit pricier, they do seem to make less noise which would make
them good for frontends.

Also, I've currently got a Norco server case for my backend, it has a
6 drive bay for harddrives plus room for 3x5.25 and a
floppy/harddrive. The 6 drive bay has two big fans for cooling the
drives which is nice. Its a well built case and well designed. Best of
all its relatively cheap.

Newegg carries them, RPC-810,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811219007

-- 
Steve
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