Getting More Harddrive Space

[sdugicus]

Currently I have about 360gb of hard drive space and just got another 200gb harddrive.
My computer has 2 ide slots and my 3 harddrives and 1 dvd drive takes up all the slots.
What I would like to do is install alot more space into my computer, possible another 3-4 harddrives. What would be the best way to go about achieving so much storage, 6-7 hardrives? Would i need to get a seprate ide card? And would it be safe running so many devices in one system? Any information would be much appriciated.
Thanks

 

[Zepper]

You will definitely need a controller card to add more drives. You may also need to beef up your PSU or run a second one to power all or some of the HDs. Or rig a way to stagger the drive startup. Or you could use a SCSI host adapter and IDE to SCSI drive adapters. Those can handle up to 15 drives per channel! And can internally stagger the hard drive startup. I just happen to be selling a controller in the FS/T sectiion. Just click the link to the rotary tool at the bottom.

.bh.

 

[Jeff7181]

Rather than adding a controller card and more hard drives, I'd upgrade your existing hard drives to a few 400 GB models if you really need that much storage.

 

[Zepper]

400GB drives aren't as cost efficient on a cost/capacity basis.

.bh.

 

[StrX]

Wat is the point of 400 gb hardrives?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Zepper
400GB drives aren't as cost efficient on a cost/capacity basis.

.bh.

Ok... 300 GB hard drives... whatever... having 5 or 6 hard drives in a desktop PC, or even a workstation is just rediculous.

 

[Zepper]

I once had eight 4.5 and 9GB SCSI drives in my system as those drives were cheap and plentiful - bigger SCSI drives were too expensive for me. Not crazy, just necessary if I wanted to run SCSI - which I always prefer.

.bh.