re choosing an appropriate power supply please help in a previous article lopes cogsci ucsd edu alann lopes says the problem is that i recently had an hd go bad and someone suggested that it may have been because of an inadequate power supply how does one know what kind of wattage is necessary to run two large maxtors and i am not an expert my understanding is the watts output of the power supply must exceed the sum of the hard disk watts requirement typically a w power supply is sufficient to power a pc hope this help lau hon wah
