I've been given a SFF compaq that I'm re-purposing as a fileserver. It comes with a mITX motherboard which runs from a single 18v external power brick. It powers its single HDD and DVD RW from a 4pin molex style connection on the board.
In an ideal world I'd like to fit a PCI-E Raid controller to run a pair of 1TB drives in raid 1 config, with a smaller drive to run the OS.
What are the chances of this succeeding given the original intention of the mobo was to power a single drive and a DVD RW? Has anyone got any figures as to the power draw of a DVD RW drive compared to spinning discs?
(I could reduce the power load by using a small SSD for the OS, but I've got a ton of smallish harddiscs that are rapidly turning into paperweights, I'd rather use one of them than spend out further)
In an ideal world I'd like to fit a PCI-E Raid controller to run a pair of 1TB drives in raid 1 config, with a smaller drive to run the OS.
What are the chances of this succeeding given the original intention of the mobo was to power a single drive and a DVD RW? Has anyone got any figures as to the power draw of a DVD RW drive compared to spinning discs?
(I could reduce the power load by using a small SSD for the OS, but I've got a ton of smallish harddiscs that are rapidly turning into paperweights, I'd rather use one of them than spend out further)