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SEAGATE SATA HDD and Asus A8V-Deluxe K8T800

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Mattax

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I am looking at purchasing four SEAGATE SATA HDD's and the MB is the Asus A8V-Deluxe K8T800.

How many SATA drives can I hook up? What other connectors will I need to purchase?

I have an ENERMAX 550 PS already. Will I need more connectors for this as well?

HDD 1: OS 30-40 GB
HDD 2: STORAGE 200 GB
HDD 3: GAMING 200 GB
HDD 4: VIDEO CAPTURE 200-300 GB


If I cannot connect more than 2 or 3 SATA drives what is the best drive to get for IDE? For the above HDD's which should be on the SATA? Which on the IDE?

 
BUMP

Just give me a link. I am desperate to build a new computer as my current one is crashing all the time, not sure if it is hardware or software and do not have the time to pull it offline as it is used for business.

Thanks in advance.

 
A couple of notes, ...

Looks like that motherboard has four SATA connectors.

Seagate currently offers 400GB drives, possibly eliminating the need for at least one drive in your planned configuration.

Is your current disk usage anywhere near your planned config?

I currently run 6 operating systems off of one 36Gb Raptor (still with a few GBs to spare). I'd say that I almost exclusively use Windows XP, and I have dedicated no more than 4GB of disk space just for XP and the apps I have installed there. I do have 1GB of temp space/virtual memory that is not apart of XP's 4GB. I also have 2GB set aside elsewhere (but still on the Raptor) for personal files. After two years (or so) with this arrangement, I've still got at least 1GB free in the XP volume, and 1GB free of personal files.

I offload things lile MP3s, game installs, download archives, and benchmarking installs onto common disk space (all but 1GB is *not* on the Raptor).

Once upon a time, I had dedicated a certain amount of disk space like you've planned for your non-OS drives. Well, I guessed wrong. One particular volume had grown larger than my prediction, while another volume was over 90% free. I ended up merging all non-OS, non-personal files onto its own drive without specifically partitioning xxGB for this and yyGB for that. I'd be willing to be that you'd be better off that way.

-SUO
 
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