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I recently bought a second hard drive to add to my system which already has the original hd, floppy, cd-rom and cdrw. There was sufficient roon to mount the drive and available space on the ide ribbon. However there was no available power supply. Am I limited by the power supply cords or can I splice one source to feed multiple drives? Any risk in doing so?

Thanks!

tonnybrandt

You can buy a Y-split cable/cord in a computerstore, allowing you to connect two drives on one power-source.
There's no risc in doing this. The powersupply will be supplying sufficient power to all your stuff.

sorgie

I would suggest that you look at the rating of your present power supply.the Y split works fine and everyone carries them. You have a lot of hardware power demand and if you PS is less then a 250watt I sugest you upgrade.

magarity

Yes, I agree with Sorgie that you *might* have to get another power supply, depends on the current watt rating of the one you have. What is it?

I had a 250 die because I had too split it too many times, but I have a 300 that is rigged like Chevy Chase's christmas lights and it is doing just fine.

A 250 though would still be able to do what you describe as your current setup even split a few times.

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magarity

Baitz,
Its interesting that your proposed answer is that comments before your posting are the answer. Tonnybrandt is clearly the correct answerer here.

tonnybrandt

My comment came from experiance, I have had 3 HD's and 1 CDROM for years on at least 4 different computers, with no headache whatsoever. None of them were "modern" computers with large powersupply's.

Margarity: I quite agree with you. :-)

branam99

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Thank you for the response. I am now confident that I can install the second HD on my AMD 450MZ with sufficient power to all my other drives.