I will plan for peaks and surges, but the rating listed on the power supply does not represent the starting or running current of the equipment. Our 740 is topped out at 1TB, so we won't be adding any more shelves or drives. The current draw should remain static.

-----Original Message----- From: John Stoffel [mailto:stoffel@lucent.com] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 14:24 To: Michael Christian Cc: Maglinger, Paul; NetApps list server Subject: RE: Amperage readings for NetApp 740 head and shelves

I just want to followup on this Amperage question and how to want to size the PDU to match the current usage of current. Boy, how to word that?

In my experience, trying to do this is bad. Use the numbers provided by NetApp and size according to them. Forgetting that you sized things tightly and plugging in one extra thing down the road is sure to lead to problems.

John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548