From: Mike '/m' 

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:35:20 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills) wrote:

>In article , "Geo"
 wrote:
>>I wonder how many 500g drives you could power with a 1KW power supply?
>
>My old IBM Server 500 systems have about 770 watts total (main and expansion
>power supplies), with 18 hot swap bays and 5 standard bays.

Speaking of watts, here is a very good wattmeter for $26.

 http://www.supermediastore.com/kilwateldet1.html

 /m

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