How can one motherboard hold the 2.x terabytes?

[Nab]

I was looking at this thread: http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=13487

I was wondering how one motherboard can hold 20+ hard drives? And also, does that power supply come with that many output power cables?

 

[Nab]

bump

 

[Jeff7]

Looks like he's got a few PCI IDE controllers. That's got to be a heck of a power supply too; it looks like he is using y-splitters for the additional power connectors. I hope he's got 64-bit 66MHz PCI IDE controllers and a supporting motherboard, cause heavy usage of just a few of those drives could choke a 32-bit 33MHz PCI bus.

 

[Nab]

oh ok....i never knew you could get PCI IDE controllers until now. Thanks

 

[MDE]

My God that's a lot of hard drives!
BTW, he's running an Epox motherboard (judging by the northbridge beatsink), so it's 32-bit 33MHz PCI AFAIK.

 

[Gravity]

I thought I was cool with a TB. That's impressive. Looks like it might be this case, or one like it.

 

[robcy]

Wow, that should be able to warm a middle sized livining room. Can 1 PSU supply that much juice? How much current will at require at boot up, when it has to begin spining all of those disk? There is no way that the side can be placed on that case while its on.