How many hard drives should I be able to attach?

[Socean]

Want as much storage capability as possible because it's for an HTPC setup.
I couldn't find an answer on any of the boards. I assume it's a pretty straight forward answer based on reading the specs below, but I'm a newbie and just want a quick answer. Please let me know if I need include any more relevant info. If anyone can recommend a guide that explains what all of the potential applications of the various interfaces, I'd be much obliged:

Peripheral Interfaces:
Eight USB 2.0 ports
One serial port
One parallel port
Four Serial ATA interfaces
One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
One diskette drive interface
PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports

Expansion Capabilities:
Four PCI Conventional* bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI Conventional bus connector 2)
Two PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connectors
One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector

Thanks.

 

[Silversierra]

Well, you have 4 sata, so thats four drives. And one ata so thats 2 drives, but probably your cd/dvd drives. If you need/can fit more drives in your htpc, then you could get an ata pci adapter to get more drives.

 

[Silversierra]

4 400gb sata drives would be 1.6tb. More than enough to get you started (I hope).

 

[Socean]

Thanks, Silversierra. I picked up a couple of 300gb drives for now and was hoping to wait for the prices to drop on the 400 gb drives.