[geeks] Little Falls 2 System Power Consumpion Question

[Jonathan Groll]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:10:37PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
>I've got a Little Falls 2 (Atom 330 Dual Core) board with a 2GB DDR2  
>strip on, a 250GB 3.5" Barracuda 7200.11 and a Sound Blaster Audigy2  
>Platinum sound system. No DVD Drive (it works fine with a USB one).
>
>Do you guys think I could power all that on a Pico-PSU 80W adapter run  
>off a 60W brick?

For my littlefalls 1 board plus three hdd's, a "60W" brick was not
enough - the drive's failed to spin up. In the end I used a :

IBM 16V 7.5A thinkpad brick - 
http://tinyurl.com/6gdr4l

Which has enough juice and only cost $10 or so plus shipping.

Cheers,
Jonathan