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From: alab@ur-tut.UUCP (Daniel F. Luna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hardware Upgrade help needed
Message-ID: <1300@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 18:55:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.1300
Posted: Sat May  9 18:55:25 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 06:05:46 EDT
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Reply-To: alab@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Daniel F. Luna)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <47200004@hcx1> scottw@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
>
>  The question that I have is this:  Does the power supply in my PC
>  have enough power to run a hard disk in addition to all the rest of
>  the equipment?  If I buy an external hard disk does this help the
>  situation?  I know that most external disk drives have their own
>  power supply.  If I add an accelerator card does this require more
>  power?
>


   The PC power supply produces a mere 63.5 watts.  It will support 
2 drives and 5 slots.  Any two drives are ok, I think.  I have put a 
20MB hard disk on mine, but had to get rid of the  second floppy.  

>  Some advertisers claim that their hard disks on a card can run on
>  a stock PC without adding a new power supply.  Is this claim true?

A hard disk on card seems to follow the rule.  It is a card...

>  If anyone out there has added a hard disk to their stock PC
>  (with no open slots) succesfully please let me know how you did it.

   A power supply upgrade is possible for some $ (under 80 I think)
which will allow more drives, etc.  Another possible alternative is
the externally powered device, or an expansion chassis.  The chassis
gives several more card slots, and room for a hard disk.  It uses
the expansion port on the back of the floppy adapter (as I recall)
so no additional card slots in the PC will be taken.  


-- 
Daniel F. Luna 
PC-Person.
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