braun@drivax.UUCP (Karl T. Braun (kral)) (01/15/87)
[] Hi. I tried to post this a week or two ago, but I don't think it made it. If this is repitious, please forgive me. Thanx. ---- I have a standard compaq plus. The internal 10 meg hard disk ceased to be sufficient about a year ago, and I've reached the point where I really want to do something about it. The two options I've considered are a) replace the internal 10 meg with an internal 20 meg. The questions I have about this concern the power supply. I've already had to replace the original, and I understand that this is a fairly common problem on the compaq plus. So I'm wondering if the current powersupply will be sufficient for a 20 (or 30, for that matter) meg disk, particularly one with decent access time. b) adding a secondary external disk, which can be disconnected and left behind when the compaq goes traveling. Anybody have any suggestions or comments? -- kral 408/647-6112 ...!{amdahl,ihnp4}!drivax!braun "Who is Number One?" "You are, Number Six!"
berger@clio.UUCP (01/22/87)
Modern 20 meg drives don't use significantly more current than 10 meg drives. If the present power supply is sufficient, it should handle a different drive adequately. You can always check power requirements with the drive manufacturers to be sure. Another alternative is to buy a "hard card" type drive. They typically draw about 15 watts operating current, which isn't much of a strain on most power supplies.