2 drives

[dougland]

Is it okay to run two drives on a 400watt power supply? i have a cd/rw and a dvd/cdrw drive in.

 

[Ambushed]

Yeah does anyone know this answer? I'll be doing this soon aswell I got a 350W psu.

Thanks

 

[addle_brains]

It should be ok, depending on what else you're going to be using.

 

[dougland]

turns out im going to only use one of my drives, i really dont need two. I kept the other one as a back up.

 

[Geoff]

It depends what else it is running, such as an older P4 or a newer Core 2 Duo with a newer card, but optical drives dont use up much power.

 

[PohTayToez]

I doubt, no matter what you're running, that another CD drive would be enough to push it over it's limit... and if it is, you should be looking at a new PSU then anyway.

 

[MixedLogik]

I was thinking about doing this too, I have a 400watt PSU. Does anyone reccomend getting a CD/RW over a DVD/RW to play CD's?

 

[Kabu]

For the price, I would get a DVD+/-RW. It will burn and play both. Why limit yourself?

Two drives should be fine unless you'll be burning both at the same time.

 

[colt1911]

These days most CD/RW are out of date most software is formated on DVD now so I would definitely get a DVD burner.