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<blockquote data-quote="Tech Geek" data-source="post: 39798" data-attributes="member: 18181"><p>Just an FYI, most power supplies do handle more than their rating for spikes in power usage. How long they can deliver that depends on how good the power supply is. An external power brick without active cooling is more likely to overheat if you drive it too hard or long at those levels. </p><p></p><p>If it's a decent power supply and you aren't right at the rating for the power supply the drive spinup shouldn't be a problem... but I make no promises. The good news is that the hard drive and DVD should not be spinning up at the same time so if you have enough power for both to spin up at the same time you have some headroom left for safety.</p><p></p><p>Good luck and let us know how it turns out. I'm sure a lot of people would like to build systems with the smaller cases.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tech Geek, post: 39798, member: 18181"] Just an FYI, most power supplies do handle more than their rating for spikes in power usage. How long they can deliver that depends on how good the power supply is. An external power brick without active cooling is more likely to overheat if you drive it too hard or long at those levels. If it's a decent power supply and you aren't right at the rating for the power supply the drive spinup shouldn't be a problem... but I make no promises. The good news is that the hard drive and DVD should not be spinning up at the same time so if you have enough power for both to spin up at the same time you have some headroom left for safety. Good luck and let us know how it turns out. I'm sure a lot of people would like to build systems with the smaller cases. [/QUOTE]
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