Comment on Options to Expand Sata HDD Drives on a Lenovo Computer

• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s also the possibility they’re referring to the current draw through the mobo connector itself frying things. A couple of HDDs at 12V, 10W will be pulling almost 2A which can be a lot for some circuit board traces, but there’s no great way know what the board can handle without documentation from the manufacturer or someone with relevantt engineering experience well above what a typical computer repair shop would have.

  If I were OP I would just roll the dice and try it out. Its not as if old Dell office PCs are high dollar items.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also a good point. Speaking of, that generation Optiplex SFF had a 300W PSU as an option in the XE3 model (meant for point-of-sale use) vs the stock 180W PSU. It’s plug-and-play, too. One of my Proxmox nodes runs a 7050 SFF with that PSU. It’s rock solid.

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