[SOLVED] do hard rive consume a lot of power?

[Osaidaz]

Hi,
building new PC, with like 4 SSD hard drive, do I need to consider them when calculating PSU power?
i'm building RTX 3080 PC,
thanks

 

[USAFRet]

Hi,
building new PC, with like 4 SSD hard drive, do I need to consider them when calculating PSU power?
i'm building RTX 3080 PC,
thanks

Solid State Drives consume maybe 3 watts each, at full load.
Not a consideration, at all.

 

[Osaidaz]

3 watts each

what pc component consumes the most power?

 

[kanewolf]

what pc component consumes the most power?

Usually the graphics card. CPU can, if highly overclocked/overvolted.

 

[USAFRet]

what pc component consumes the most power?

Depends on the components in question, and the use.
But probably the GPU.

http://www.buildcomputers.net/power-consumption-of-pc-components.html