- Oct 2, 2013
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Hey, I have an Acer Aspire 7551-7422 17.3 inch laptop. I have made several upgrades and have a large number of drives plugged in, namely:
- doubled the ram from 4 gb to 8 gb
- replaced the hard drive with an ssd, put the old hard drive in an enclosure, and plugged it in as an external drive
- put an SD card into the card reader
- plugged in a second external hard drive
- plugged in 3 flash drives
- plugged in mini/micro usb cables for use with other devices (tablet, smartphone, TI-89, gps)
I have my system set to "performance" battery settings, and I have a 24" LED monitor plugged in, which presumably stresses the GPU and requires more power.
Am I destroying my laptop's power supply? Is there anything inherently wrong with keeping so many USB devices plugged in permanently? I even want to add a bluetooth card to the mpcie slot, remove the optical drive and put a hard drive in the optical bay, and use the removed DVD drive externally in a USB enclosure.
Should I buy a 9 cell battery, a better power supply, or a UPS or something? Thanks for your help.
- doubled the ram from 4 gb to 8 gb
- replaced the hard drive with an ssd, put the old hard drive in an enclosure, and plugged it in as an external drive
- put an SD card into the card reader
- plugged in a second external hard drive
- plugged in 3 flash drives
- plugged in mini/micro usb cables for use with other devices (tablet, smartphone, TI-89, gps)
I have my system set to "performance" battery settings, and I have a 24" LED monitor plugged in, which presumably stresses the GPU and requires more power.
Am I destroying my laptop's power supply? Is there anything inherently wrong with keeping so many USB devices plugged in permanently? I even want to add a bluetooth card to the mpcie slot, remove the optical drive and put a hard drive in the optical bay, and use the removed DVD drive externally in a USB enclosure.
Should I buy a 9 cell battery, a better power supply, or a UPS or something? Thanks for your help.
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