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December 25th, 2023 00:16

Aurora R13, internal HDD upgrade

I'm looking to upgrade my seagate 2gb HDD data drive as showing signs of failing, drive has been noisy, slow with occasional read n write taking huge amount of time, so at the moment transferred everything of it, I upgraded the single NVMe 1gb to two x2 2gb NVMe WD SN850X, I do have a new drive that my previous pc could not handle the power requirements and crashed, I'm wondering if this pc could run a seagate 6gb barracuda pro ST6000DM004 as the additional data drive, spec sheet states the start up requires 2amps, operating mode states 9watts typical with idle average at 7.2watts and 0.6 watts for standby and sleep mode, the original fitted drive is a seagate 2gb ST2000DM008 with a 2amp start up, 5.1watt typical operating requirement, 3.9watt idle and 0.3watts for standby and sleep, I did also upgrade my CPU to an i9 processor inline with dell upgrade recommendations 8 months ago, I'm just concerned whether the motherboard can handle that drive, does anyone know if the R13 will run it? I only have the 750watt PSU as the 1000w was not available for my pc at the time of purchase.

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December 25th, 2023 00:55

No worries.  mechanical hard disk drive uses very small amount of power (<10 w) .  no need to be over concerned.

ST6000DM004 Is 6 TB, not GB.

2.5" Hard Disk Drive HDD 0.7 to 3 W
3.5" Hard Disk Drive HDD 6.5 to 9 W

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January 16th, 2024 11:15

@redxps630​ thanks for the info, I'll try the drive out

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