Some embodiments involve a method of managing power for a first multiple-data-storage-devices enclosure. The method can include: checking out a first token over a network connection from a token pool shared by multiple-data-storage-devices enclosures including the first enclosure, wherein each token of the token pool is available to be checked out by a single device and wherein the enclosures share power drawn from a power supply; after checking out the first token, initiating activation of a data storage device within the first enclosure; monitoring power consumption within the first enclosure; and releasing the first token back to the token pool when the power consumption in the first enclosure substantially reaches a steady-state after the activation of the data storage device is initiated.