power supply connectors question

[mmciver]

When hooking up a larger PC supply, (Ex. 850W single rail)  do you use all of the hard drive connectors on one of the cables or do you try to hook up multiple cables coming out of the power supply to the 3 connectors on the Smart hub?

Mike

[arw01]

If your 4 pin molex connectors are on multiple outcoming wires, use as many different source wires as possible rather than 3 from the same set of wires.

Alan

[Steve Gase]

When hooking up a larger PC supply, (Ex. 850W single rail)  do you use all of the hard drive connectors on one of the cables or do you try to hook up multiple cables coming out of the power supply to the 3 connectors on the Smart hub?

Mike

I try to spread as much load as I can across as many wires as possible.  if I use all of the wires that have drive connectors -- then I will double and use connectors from the same cable (as my second choice).

[taybrynn]

+1 plug in as many different wires as possible.

I personally think you often can buy another board for less than opting for the 'very large' ATX power supplies.

Last year the sweet spot for price/size seemed to be around 48-55 amps .... spending double to get a 70 amp PS never made sense
as I could get another hub or zeus board for about the same.

[mmciver]

Thanks for all the answers.  I bought this PS on sale and for my active hub I am still calculating how much power I will need but want to make sure that I was covered.  I am currently waiting for my 8 and 16 port Zeus to show up and I have smaller supplies for those and specific projects.
Thanks to all your feedback I was able to trim back excess cables and get the supply and hub ready to mount in its battery box.

Happy New Year!

Mike

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