Why not a usb drive?  Seems less trouble and is portable.

Christopher C. Charles
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> Sent: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:55:56 -0400
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> Subject: [PCBUILD] Power Supply Capacity
> 
> I'm interested in adding an internal ZIP drive, and a required additional
> IDE controller for it, to a tower PC.  The machine already has a (seldom
> used) 3.5" floppy drive, an 80 GB and a 40 GB hard drive, a CD R/W drive,
> and a CD/DVD R/W drive.  The unit has a 350 Watt power supply and I'd
> just like to do a sanity check on whether I'd be stretching the limits of
> the supply if I add the ZIP drive and controller card.  That is, where
> can I get ballpark figures on how much power  the above collection of
> hardware is using?
> Thanks for any advice here.
> 
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