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Originally Posted by gr8fl4porsche View Post
...what does the second power supply do? Does it act as a backup if the first fails?
At basic used to help distribute the load when you start stuffing a box full of drives.

Can configure for hot swap redundancy if desired, for a data server it's cheap insurance.
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