[PLUG] Expanding a Linux Fileserver

Daniel Herrington herda05 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 23:51:36 UTC 2009


Thanks, all.

The calculator (http://www.schrockinnovations.com/powercalc.php) 
indicates about 365 Watts with the addition of the two drives and 
controller. Fry's is out of the way, and Free geek is open tomorrow, 
I'll check if they have what I need.

drew wymore wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Daniel Herrington <herda05 at gmail.com
>>>       
>>>> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> I was planning on adding two new disks to my ubuntu file server that
>>>> currently has a raid 1 array between 2 disks and the system drive. I
>>>> planed on purchasing a hd pci controller, but noticed that I only have
>>>>         
>> 1
>>     
>>>> molex connector open on my PS. Can this be added to or would I need to
>>>> purchase a new PS with more connectors?
>>>>         
>>> You can grab connectors at Frys and probably ENU just make sure your PSU
>>> can
>>> handle the additional load.
>>>       
>> By connectors, he means splitters.
>>
>> -wes
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>>     
>
> Right .. I assumed so.
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