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    Calculating power for a Mini-ITX w/ 8 Sata drives

    I'm using the Seagate 500gB drives as I have a lot laying around, so they have a price point of 0$. I also have a few spare 1gB sticks of 5300 DDR2 ram. This focuses my only pricing concerns on the mobo, psu, and Sata card(s). Hard to find PCI Sata cards > 4 slots at a reasonable price, and...
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    Calculating power for a Mini-ITX w/ 8 Sata drives

    Ya, I'm having trouble confirming if the D510MO handles it or not. I do know that some people have used highpoint SATA cards to stagger spinup, but that is breaking my low price point objective just on the card. Still need to get a mobo & PSU somehow xD My results did seem as though they were...
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    Calculating power for a Mini-ITX w/ 8 Sata drives

    I was aiming for ~ 6-8 Seagate Baracuba 500gB 7200rpm drives. I presume it would be complicated / unfeasible to have a proper staggered spin-up with all the different cards I had planned to use? I can't tell if the D510MO has a staggered spin-up as a standard feature. Thank you for the...
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    Calculating power for a Mini-ITX w/ 8 Sata drives

    I'm looking at building myself a small NAS-ish appliance for home use. I'm looking at getting a Mini-ITX Intel D510MO (2 SATA ports), adding a PCI card (4 SATA ports), and a miniPCIe card (2 SATA ports). This brings me to a total of 8 SATA ports. To the question; What size PSU do I...
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