Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

[Antonio Vargas]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:46:09PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> > > - Performance. What happens if you plug in 4000 disks at once?
> > 
> > You crash your power supply :)
> 
> [Puzzle]
> 
> Say the power supply had five 5.25" drive power connecters, how many 1
> into 3 power cable splitters would you need to connect all 4000 disks?
> 
> :-)
> 
> John.

Also, assuming 1 second spinup, you would need
4000 seconds == 66.66... minutes == 1.11... hours
for a sequential spinup (which _may_ not crash
the power supply)

Antonio.