Max.Drives on 200W Power Supply Unit

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Hi,

I have a Dell Dimension V450 with a 200W power supply.

I presently have 2 hard drives and 1 cd-rw connected to it. I would like to
know whether I can add another hard drive without changing the power supply.

I checked on the net and it seems it should work fine.

any help with this would be great.

Sincerely,

PvS

 

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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:37:02 -0500, "Pawan" <pawanvir_singh@cogeco.ca>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a Dell Dimension V450 with a 200W power supply.
>
>I presently have 2 hard drives and 1 cd-rw connected to it. I would like to
>know whether I can add another hard drive without changing the power supply.
>
>I checked on the net and it seems it should work fine.
>
>any help with this would be great.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>PvS

Do you even have room for another drive? Those uATX cases aren't exactly
roomy. If you used an external drive that connects to the computer with a
USB cable and has it's own power cord, you'd solve both the power and
space problems at the same time.

--
Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

 

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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:37:02 -0500, "Pawan"
<pawanvir_singh@cogeco.ca> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a Dell Dimension V450 with a 200W power supply.
>
>I presently have 2 hard drives and 1 cd-rw connected to it. I would like to
>know whether I can add another hard drive without changing the power supply.
>
>I checked on the net and it seems it should work fine.
>
>any help with this would be great.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>PvS
>

You can probably add a drive and not see any immediate
problem, providing the voltages are still high, not dropping
from the already-present load. Even so adding another drive
is not a pass/fail situation usually, rather that the
increased load on PSU will be decreasing it's lifespan.
Ideally you'd not be trying to power all that from a
minimalistic system, not to mention cooling issues in a
small case.