Amout Of Drives

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okay a com can onli hold two hard drives right, two cd rom drives and two floopys?

[Luca_Snipes]

most motherboards can take any combination of harddisks and CD/DVD upto a total of 4, and 2 floppy drives.
It is possable to have many more disks than that by using extra controller cards (Some SCSI cards will run upto 15 drives)

[Crazycol]

If you have a RAID motherboard you can run up to 8 IDE's

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ASUS P4PE Motherboard for Intel P4 478 Retail w/ Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, SATA, Gigabit LAN, Firewire IEEE1394
***1st Intel chip that TRUELY supports DDR333 PC2700***
Specifications:
Supported CPU: Socket 478 for Intel® Pentium® 4/ Celeron up to 3GHz
Chipset: Intel 845PE
FSB: 533 / 400 MHz
RAM: 3x 184-pin DDR333 PC2700/PC2100/PC1600Max 2GB
IDE: 2x UltraDMA 100/66/33
Serial ATA
Slots: 1x AGP 4X 6x PCI
Ports: 1x LPT, 2x COM, 2x PS2, 1x RJ45, 1x 1394,4xUSB2.0 and Audio Ports
Onboard Audio: SoundMAX AD1980 6-channel CODEC
Onboard Gigabit LAN: 100/1000 Mbs
Onboard Firewire: IEEE1394 interface Model#: P4PE/R/GBL/F/SATA

okay this has 2 ide... so im guesing i can have only 2 hard drives and 2 cd rom drives and 2 floppies w/ this

[Crazycol]

Originally posted by Soul814@27 March 2003 - 02:00


okay this has 2 ide... so im guesing i can have only 2 hard drives and 2 cd rom drives and 2 floppies w/ this

Yes!

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darn... lol time to search!

[tilen76]

NO, two IDE channels means, you can have up to 4 drives:

Each IDE channel can hold two drives, master drive and a slave drive:

You could have either:

- 4 hard drives
- 3 hard drives + 1 CD/CD-RW/DVD drive
- 2 hard drives + 2 CD/CD-RW/DVD drives
-1 hard drive + 3 CD/CD-RW/DVD drives

[Luca_Snipes]

Serial ATA

this is also used for harddisks, you just need to buy a Serial ATA disk instead of an IDE one

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wow serial ata are like 170 ish for a 80gb hard drive OUCH lolz

[Supernatural]

Yea, RAID/SCSI is very expensive and not worth it for the average user.