[geeks] Little Falls 2 System Power Consumpion Question

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Sun Dec 14 16:23:44 CST 2008


Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> You are very lucky you didn't fry the motor on the hard drive.  I have
>> seen cases in my own experience where under-powering drives results in
>> them being screwed out and requiring a new PCB (basically the hard drive
>> motherboard).
> 
> Really? I thought that people slightly underpowered laptop hard drives
> all the time -- 

I was not aware that it was a laptop hard drive, I have seen this
problem with 2 desktop hard drives I had.

--Patrick



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