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- From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell)
- Subject: Re: Avoid ClubMac -- Not.
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 04:24:05 GMT
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- ClubMac is not alone in this. Many many many OEMs ship external drives with
- marginal power supplies. This is the big temptation with modern switching
- PSs. The specs say it should be ok but these really need to be overspec'd
- by about 25% to be reliable.
-
- I have always found this skimping on power supplies confusing because the
- PS is such a small fraction of the manufacturing cost. The plastic case
- costs more! But if you are a large company and you order PSs by the
- hundreds, a couple of dollars difference really starts to add up, I guess.
-
- I, too, have had trouble with ClubMac external drives' power supplies. I've
- bought dozens of them and I'd guess that around 1/3 have failed power
- supplies.
-
- --scott
-