Minimum Power Supply Recommendation

[diecypt]

Hello, I currently have a 230 watts power supply but I wish to upgrade it as it can not sustain both of my hard drives. I had to unplug one of them or the result will be a constant message as one of them continuously disconnect and reconnect. I was wondering what would be the minimum watts I would need to acquire and if possible, leave some recommendations. Thanks.

Is 230 watts enough for two hard drives in the first place?

 

[Zerk2012]

I think you have other issues but without knowing the exact PC you have nobody can help you a idle drive uses almost no power.
I would think 1 of 4 things, the drive is going bad, SATA port is going bad , bad SATA connector, or bad power connector.

 

[diecypt]

I think you have other issues but without knowing the exact PC you have nobody can help you a idle drive uses almost no power.
I would think 1 of 4 things, the drive is going bad, SATA port is going bad , bad SATA connector, or bad power connector.

AMD FX(tm) -6300 Six-Core Processor
8.00 GB RAM
NVIDA GeForce GTX 760

I definitely think that it is something wrong with the power source as when both of the ports are connected, my computer sometime shuts down all of the sudden.