What To Do When IDE Is Full?

[Jay8oP]

i current have 3 hdd's and 1 cdr using up all the connectors and am planning on buying more hdd's, i know i am spose to buy a controller but is it as efficient as the onboard ide controller? also any suggestions as to which one to buy and where? i do not want to try raid either last time i did it crashed on me and i lost all my files not a happy sight to see.

[Hawker-rider]

i don't seea signature, but if you have SATA on your motherboard you have a few extra options there!

[FireMogle]

PCI IDE/SATA/SCSI are just as good as the onboard ones you may have. For IDE I use promise and SCSI I use adaptec.

[Jay8oP]

Hawker-rider: i am not really looking into buying sata drives im am currently happy with my pata. ;)

FireMogle: thank you i will look into the promise controllers.

[jajmon]

You could also go external USB or firewire

[Ravsitar]

Depending on the size of your current hds you could probably be 2 new ones that have more space than your 3 old ones.

[Hawker-rider]

or go with some PATA--SATA adpters, they ar only a few bucks, I picked up some decent ones for $20 a piece, inluding shipping. so they'll open up some channels

[JDizzle]

Man you've got a lot of porn!!

[Blueboy1986]

Originally posted by JDizzle
Man you've got a lot of porn!!

Lol why do u assume that he has alot of porn maybe u have alot of porn :rolleyes: and u assume that everyone else does too:D

[Th0r]

Originally posted by Blueboy1986


Lol why do u assume that he has alot of porn maybe u have alot of porn :rolleyes: and u assume that everyone else does too:D

I certainly don't ;)

:D :p

[Sirius]

Originally posted by Jay8oP
i current have 3 hdd's and 1 cdr using up all the connectors and am planning on buying more hdd's, i know i am spose to buy a controller but is it as efficient as the onboard ide controller? also any suggestions as to which one to buy and where? i do not want to try raid either last time i did it crashed on me and i lost all my files not a happy sight to see.
You must need some big time storage is there a way you can just replace the Hdd's you have w/ bigger ones?

[Quick69GTO]

Yeah, that would be my choice.
Replace your current drives with larger ones.
Other options would be to get a PCI controller which will allow you to add four more drives.
I have a RAID motherboard and that’s how I use the extra ports.

[wise-skiier]

Just get a controller card, it isnt messy and it is pretty cheap!!!

[wquiles]

I have used the Promise TX133 PCI card (about $40-50) and it works great - you can even boot from it no problem :)

[Jay8oP]

i current have 3x 120gb jb's i use them to store anime, if anyone has ever watched or downloaded anime series you should know it gets pretty big. i had thought about getting bigger drives and transfering them to the new drives but that would be too much of an hassle considering i will only be getting less than 80gb more space so i rather get a controller and add more drives to that.

[Sirius]

Originally posted by Jay8oP
i current have 3x 120gb jb's i use them to store anime, if anyone has ever watched or downloaded anime series you should know it gets pretty big. i had thought about getting bigger drives and transfering them to the new drives but that would be too much of an hassle considering i will only be getting less than 80gb more space so i rather get a controller and add more drives to that.
What kind of anime are you watching can we have a link.

[Jay8oP]

Originally posted by Sirius

What kind of anime are you watching can we have a link.


naruto, one piece, full metal alchemist, gunslinger girl, inu yasha, chrno crusade, and a lot more.

info on the titles above can be found here http://www.animenfo.com/

[axhed]

i added a siig ata133 controller pci card. i've got an 80GB, 40x cdrw, 120GB drives all on their own channel, and the fourth channel is shared between the dvdrom and the 48x cdrw. it's sweeeet.... i can burn off of the maxtor ata133 80GB to both the 40x and the 48x at full speed simultaneously (different compilations or the same.) as soon as one disc is done, removed, labeled, and started again, the other drive is done and it is just back and forth between the burners. it requires my undivided attention to keep up with their freaking appetites for discs.
i really oughtta get a dvdrw, but with bluray and doublesided dvds on the horizon, i'm gonna wait it out and see what develops.

i'm gonna send you a pm about an extra controller card i have.

[lancingfury]

why not forget this and go for 1 200 gig like me, or if you really need it 2? that way, no need to use up a pci slot, and youll have room for a new optical drive too.

[tom10167]

He's got three 120 gigs, full. He'd need two, at least, and that's about $400. The adaptor and another 120gig would be about 150, and give him an extra 120gigs, opposed to an extra ~40.

[axhed]

if you're archiving your anime on hard drives, consider getting one of those bays that let you swap out hard drives through the front of your pc.

[lancingfury]

yeah, those things that are mostly for servers...

is that anime site free? legal?

[simpleman]

:D :D :D
i have a whole lot of porn
:D :D :D

[Jay8oP]

Originally posted by axhed
if you're archiving your anime on hard drives, consider getting one of those bays that let you swap out hard drives through the front of your pc.

i could do that but my friends usually come over with there laptops or harddrives to copy the anime over so i might as well get a adapter.

i already ordered 2x 200gb jbs from newegg ill see how it goes from there i might just move 2 drives to the 200's or just get a adapter.

[Jay8oP]

Originally posted by lancingfury
yeah, those things that are mostly for servers...

is that anime site free? legal?

that site is just reviews for the anime. you can find the fansubs on irc which is free and legal as long as it is not licensed by a company.

[Jay8oP]

Originally posted by simpleman

i have a whole lot of porn


one of the drives was bought to store porn but then i decided anime was more exciting than porn :p

[simpleman]

Originally posted by Jay8oP


one of the drives was bought to store porn but then i decided anime was more exciting than porn :p

:eek: more exciting than porn
WHAT are you feeling OK

[lancingfury]

oh. than what fills up your hard drive so much, and where do you get the anime? ripping from dvds is illegal...

[one-silence]

^^ all legal as long as its not licensed by a company.

my cousins and i have more then 400 gigs total of anime. theses suckers take up space quick! i love watchign anime!Originally posted by Jay8oP


that site is just reviews for the anime. you can find the fansubs on irc which is free and legal as long as it is not licensed by a company.

[warlock110]

yeah, anime takes up alot of space, i'm running out of space on mine too, but porn and anime is just completely different hehe. and just to clarify, porn does take up more space more than anime :)

[madcow235]

I know how you feel man. I have every episode of 24 and family guy taped from tv in perfect quality and thats a good 80gb. Im to poor to get some new drives though so i guess I will just have to deal