connecting 2 PSU's together

ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
edited March 2005 in Hardware
A clan mate of mine has a server with 8 250 gig hdds in a raid 5 array, its not enuf so hes got 8 more and another raid card in the mail, he got Lian Li drive bay converters for the extra drives

heres his server now


server07.jpg
server14.jpg

lol he aint playing around

theres no way with 560watt psu can support his compy and 18 drives ( cd drives and OS drives ) so the only conclusion is to some how connect 2 psus together, does any 1 have any ideas or tutorials?

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  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited March 2005
    A friend of mine did something similar (but I forget why... certainly not 16 drives :eek: 0. He dremelled a new spot for another PSU. I think he had one set up so that power from the first would trip the second, but I dunno.

    http://www4.ncsu.edu/~pjgilban/dualps.html is what I got from Googling ;D

    Looks fairly simple. I guess... :-/

    More:
    http://www.pc-mod.com/articles/atx/
    http://www.burningissues.net/how_to/power/psu.htm

    I guess, from a bit of reading on forums, that that third link will make the two boot together (relay somehow or other). Flip the master, the secondary kicks on. Don't know if the other two links do that, though it looks like it. I didn't really read them all ;D
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    o m f g
  • BriltBrilt brooklyn
    edited March 2005
    4 terabytes of pron ... I mean storage space ..... damn!! makes me and my 80 gig feel inadequate.... /me has hard drive envy
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited March 2005
    take the leads that power on the psu out of the secondary psu atx connector and attach them to the primary psu atx lead.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited March 2005
    As gobbles indicated, it is just the 'turn on' wire you'll need to connect to the primary PSU's ATX cable. It should be the green conductor on the ATX lead. I think you may have to connect the ground (black) conductor next to the green one as well. As soon as the green conductor shorts to a ground, the PSU should start up.
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