Looking for smallest possible power supply for 2 IDE hard ..

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I want to power 2 small drives and a fan in an external enclosure using as
small of a power supply as I possibly can. I don't know exactly which
drives I will be using but lets assume they are some power hungry IDE drives
(Parallel ATA). I don't have room for a standard power supply.

Can anybody recommend a small power supply such as this?

Thanks,
--Dan

 

[cjt]

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dg wrote:

> I want to power 2 small drives and a fan in an external enclosure using as
> small of a power supply as I possibly can. I don't know exactly which
> drives I will be using but lets assume they are some power hungry IDE drives
> (Parallel ATA). I don't have room for a standard power supply.
>
> Can anybody recommend a small power supply such as this?
>
> Thanks,
> --Dan
>
>

You know IDE isn't designed to be used in external enclosures, right?

Or are you using a firewire, USB, etc. enclosure ?

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Why not get the Li-Ion battery powered MPD 2.5" enclosure that runs up
to 10 hours of battery powered operation on the go?

http://www.whiningdog.net/Reviews/PCs/Drives/20021207-MPD/index.php

 

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Dont much care what it was designed for. The entire project strays so far
from original intention I won't let IDE specs stand in my way (it should all
be fairly compliant anyway). Thank you though.

Thanks,
--Dan

"CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> You know IDE isn't designed to be used in external enclosures, right?
>
> Or are you using a firewire, USB, etc. enclosure ?
>