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About 7-13 watts, depending on if its idle or reading/writing. On startup, they can suck up to 30 watts.

Side note: too many hard drives on a weak power supply is usually a reason for a PC to reset itself now and then.

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Takes about 30 watts on startup and about fifteen watts to keep it spinning. About 20 watts to access data. This is in a 200 gb seagate hard drive hooked up to a killawatt meter

According to specs for most harddrives, it is in the single digits for idle, and 25-30W on startup

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a big one but i am not sure so dont ask me.

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