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How many PHYSICAL drives in your PC?

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LiteOn 24x burner
LiteOn 16x DVD
WD 40 gig 7200
WD 80 gig 7200
WD 120 7200 (8MB)
WD 120 7200 (8MB)

Havent installed the 120 gig drives yet (just got them yesterday). 😛
 


<< K: Friends >>


you put your friends on a HD? hmm, i guess that would save driving time😛

I've got:
20GB HD
6x DVD/4x4x24 CDRW
Floppy
Smart media

yeah, it's a lappy🙂
 
1x Floppy
1x 30 GB 7.200 rpm ATA 100 HDD - Main
1x 30 GB 7.200 rpm ATA 100 HDD - Storage
1x 14.5 GB 5400 rpm ATA 66 HDD - Storage
1x 4 GB 5400 rpm ATA 33 HDD - Music Only
1x DVD-Rom
1x CD-RW
1x internal Zip Drive

8 in total
 
Bomber:
1 Floopy <==
2 CD
1 Tape
7 HDs --SCSI RAID 5 (1 array)
======
11 drives

Gunner:
1 Floppy
1 CD
1 Tape
8 HDs --SCSI RAID 5 (2 arrays)
======
11 drives
 
guys i have a question....im not a computer newbie ...i would like to know how you use 7-8 harddrives using the raid setup...i do know the science and the theory behind the raid( im comsci major)...but where do you fit that many hard drives in one tower???
 
5 in one
1-floppy
1-60G HDD
1-30G HDD
1-CDRW
1-CDROM

4 in the other
1-floppy
1-20G HDD
1-DVD
1-CDROM
-Cyco-
 
1 floppy
1 pioneer dvd116s
1 lite-on 16/10/40
1 ibm deskstar 60gxp

and outside i got a 40gig external firewire.

...i have less than 5gb free thanks to anime.

Have a nice day 🙂

Darien
 


<< guys i have a question....im not a computer newbie ...i would like to know how you use 7-8 harddrives using the raid setup...i do know the science and the theory behind the raid( im comsci major)...but where do you fit that many hard drives in one tower??? >>



Visit the TECHNICAL SUPPORT forum or the HIGHLY TECHNICAL forum....if you ask this question here...you'll just get a bunch of nef threads.
Good luck 🙂

BTW:
1x18GB SCSI
8x20 Plextor SCSI
6x Pioneer DVD SCSI
1x40GB Maxtor 7200RPM
 
Floppy, 20GB IBM hard drive (It might be a 75GXP, one of the much older ones anyway...who knows, it's been working for a few years), 100GB WD1000B Hard drive, 12x DVD-ROM, 12x/4x/32x HP CD-RW drive.

5
 


<< guys i have a question....im not a computer newbie ...i would like to know how you use 7-8 harddrives using the raid setup...i do know the science and the theory behind the raid( im comsci major)...but where do you fit that many hard drives in one tower??? >>



If you're a comsci major then you're not a very successful one, are you? 😀 More than likely, the user with 7-8 hard drives is not using a tower but a server case with an internal hot-swappable drive cage. Though it would be possible to use an external hard drive cage and a raid controller in the box, it's less common. In either case the drives could be configured in a single RAID5 logical drive or split into many other different configurations depending on need.

 
1 20GB maxtor hd
1 40GB IBM 60gxp hd
1 dvd drive
1 cdrw drive
1 floppy
___________
5
I don't use the floppy nor the dvd though.

And trust me I know a lot of compsci majors that don't know a dang thing about the inside of a computer case.
 
6:
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-106 [CD-ROM drive]
TDK CDRW161040X [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
IBM-DPTA-373420 (34.22 GB) [Hard drive]
Maxtor 5T060H6 (61.49 GB) [Hard drive]
Maxtor 91360U4 (13.61 GB) [Hard drive]
 
BooneRebel has it mostly right....

My workstation has no internal HDs, just an external F/W hot-swap drive tower (Compaq).
My server has 4 drives internal in a hot-swap (that's the max) cage (which is in the tower, but the HDs (on sleds) can be pulled w/o opening the case up or powering the server down).
The server also has a 7 drive Fast/Narrow external hot-swap drive tower, which isn't full, because I can't find enough narrow drives, and I don't want to put in 1g drives.

And, I just bought another F/W drive tower, but this one's a rack-mount, and will take 7 drives. ($46.50 shipped from e*ay 🙂)
 
Let's see...

1 x Floppy drive
1 x plextor 24x cdrw
1 x pioneer 16x dvd
1 x 40 gb WD 7200 rpm
2 x 60 gb wd 5400 rpm
2 x 80 gb maxtor 5400 rpm
1 x 100gb wd 5400 rpm
-------------------------------
hmm so 2 optical drives and 420 gb of storage
about 80% of the storage except for the 40gb drive is dedicated to store anime 🙂
 
1 x 40/24/10 Plextor cdrw
1 x 6x Pioneer Slot DVD
1 x 40.9GB Maxtor DiamondMax+ 60
1 x 30.7GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP
1 x Floppy

Average, and only in my main rig though.
 


<< 1. Floppy
2. DVD
3. CD-RW
4. 30GB HD
5. 10GB HD >>



change 5 to a 60GB and that's what I gots. Wouldn't want any more... too much clutter.
 
Across three machines:

Jonah:
2 x 60 GB IBM hdd
1 x pioneer dvd
1 x sony cdrw
1 x soundblaster Live! Drive (doesw this count? 😉)
1 x floppy

Job:
1 x floppy
1 x cdrom
1 x 30.7 WD hdd
1 x 10.2 IBM hdd

elcheapo:
1 x floppy
1 x cdrom
1 x WD 6.4 hdd
1 x WD 1.6 hdd
1 x WD 540MB hdd
1 x 8x Acer cdrw

total of 16 across three systems plus a number of spares laying around... 😀
 
My Box -

1 x Floppy
1 x 20 gig
1 x 27 gig
1 x 40 gig
1 x 4 gig SCSI
1 x 8x20 SCSI burner
1 x 40x SCSI CDROM
1 x card reader

So 8 I guess.
 
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