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  1. As someone who has worked with high current DC power supplies, I feel I should point out that a 7200 RPM drive pulls 3 to 7 Amps when spinning up. With 10 drives in your cable, you have the potential for 30 to 70 amps to be passing through the lower segment. Those wires are usually 18 or 16 gauge if you are lucky, and you are exceeding the safe amperage rating for that by 200 to 300%. Those wires should really be more like 10 or 8 gauge. Now, obviously, you aren't pulling that load all the time, and there is a duty cycle involved, but those wires will be trying to carry that current if you spin up all the drives at once. Not to mention that Molex drive connector is rated for about 8 amps if it's a good one, and you could be asking it to do 70..
  2. I know there are a few alternatives to the 590, but I'm one of those people that gets really picky and I'd really like to get my hands on a 590. Has anyone been able to locate them? NewEgg is out and eBay is dry.. Amazon lists one available for 600 something dollars. I don't like it that much.. I had convinced myself that I would accept a Xigmatec utgard as a substitute because it was plain looking like the 590, but those seem to have dried up as well. Any help tracking one down would be appreciated!
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    You could do a compromise of those two ideas... Mount it outside the protected array and rsync it to a drive in the array with a cron job at some off-hour time.
  4. NewEgg has a special on this single 12V rail "700 Watt" power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171054&cm_mmc=ENCORET-_-58-_-N82E16817171054&nm_mc=ENCORET For 59.99 shipped with a 10 dollar mail in rebate. I know it's not of the Corsair/Antec/Seasonic trifecta, but what are the opinions of this PS? 52 amps on a single 12V rail seems pretty good for that price..