i have 4 harddrives and 2dvd drives, need more space, how can i add more harddrives

Time4aMassiveOC · Sep 7, 2006

i have 4 harddrives and 2dvd drives, need more space, how can i add more harddrives

so yeah like the title states. i have Sata 4 harddrives and 2 IDE/ATA dvd drives. 1150gigs, but its always filling up before im able to burn my stuff in 130gig sets of 30 dvds. (soon to change to blueray whenever it comes down in price.)

but yeah i need at least 2 terabytes im thinking. so how could i get like 2-4 more drives on my present machine?????

the one im using atm is an abit ic7-g

freakdiablo · Sep 7, 2006

you could always get a pci card to add more sata ports if thats what you mean. or you could always go external

BossBorot · Sep 7, 2006

move some of your lower density drives out and use them as external storage then put in some new drives. If that doesnt work then you will have to get a pci card or have a lot of external disks.

johan851 · Sep 7, 2006

Build a RAID 5 fileserver. 4x320GB drives = almost a terrabyte, plus you get some redundancy. Any board with an ICH7R should be able to handle it.

Or just clean up the stuff you won't ever use.

SavageBasher · Sep 7, 2006

if you have 2 ide channels then you can add 2 ide drives...

Time4aMassiveOC · Sep 7, 2006

eh, i have an external 250gig too, so basicly i have like 1400gigs of space completly filled up. im thinking i need at least another 600 or more gigs. i guess imma get a pci card. anyone know a good one that has 2-4 sata slots?

correct me if im wrong johan but isnt a terabyte like 1024gigs?

and i have room for like 2-3 more harddrives in my computer so imma just install them inside the cpu.

does the p180 hold 6 or 7 harddrives....hmmmm and i wonder if i could get something that let me mount harddrives where the extra dvd slots are...

crfracer290 · Sep 8, 2006

Time4aMassiveOC said:
eh, i have an external 250gig too, so basicly i have like 1400gigs of space completly filled up. im thinking i need at least another 600 or more gigs. i guess imma get a pci card. anyone know a good one that has 2-4 sata slots?

correct me if im wrong johan but isnt a terabyte like 1024gigs?

and i have room for like 2-3 more harddrives in my computer so imma just install them inside the cpu.

does the p180 hold 6 or 7 harddrives....hmmmm and i wonder if i could get something that let me mount harddrives where the extra dvd slots are...

Damn, thats alot of Porn dude. No really, what do you have 1400 gigs of?

crossed_wires · Sep 8, 2006

Maybe sell some(or all) of your drives on Ebay or something and buy one or two HUGE drives?

Time4aMassiveOC · Sep 8, 2006

crfracer290 said:
Damn, thats alot of Porn dude. No really, what do you have 1400 gigs of?

Take a wild guess and ive got some of that too.

heck thats nothing, ive got at least 2 terabytes worth of data saved to dvd in my cabinet. which by the way kinda stinks since here in awhile when blu-ray drives get more refined/less expensive, im going to be able to store more on 3 blu-ray disks than what i currently store on 30 dvd's, and the disks themselves right now arnt any more expensive dollar to gig than DVD's, but im thinking 750ish to 1000$ is a little too much for being a blu-ray burner beta tester.

but yeah does nobody have any recomendations for a good pci to sata card?

what are they called btw?

Edit: nm i found out what they are called, but there sure isnt much of a selection as far as newegg goes

telexen · Sep 8, 2006

Depends on whether you want SATA II capability or not ... but if not you can search for anything with a Silicon Image Sil3114 controller and it'll work fine.

funnyperson1 · Sep 8, 2006

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816132006

There you go, its got a trusted SATA chipset and tons of great newegg reviews.

David · Sep 8, 2006

SavageBasher said:
if you have 2 ide channels then you can add 2 ide drives...

Quoted for truth and ease if you have another IDE channel there.

I have 3xIDE drives + 1xDVD burner on my two IDE channels plus 2 sata drives on a cheap sata card I bought.

Time4aMassiveOC · Sep 8, 2006

can anyone tell me the difference between a PCI-X card and a PCI Express card? i know it sounds obvious, but i dont belive the pci express cards go into the graphics slot. is there a newer slot now than PCI-X?

johan851 · Sep 8, 2006

PCI-X is an extension of the normal 32-bit PCI slot. PCI-X is 64 bit, and allows much higher throughput. It's usually only seen on server motherboards, and it's useful for large SCSI controllers and such.

PCI Express is PCI-E, and it's even faster.

David · Sep 11, 2006

johan851 said:
PCI-X is an extension of the normal 32-bit PCI slot. PCI-X is 64 bit, and allows much higher throughput. It's usually only seen on server motherboards, and it's useful for large SCSI controllers and such.

PCI Express is PCI-E, and it's even faster.

I would add to this that 64bit PCI-X slots are longer than 32 bit PCI slots. PCIe slots come in various speeds - typically one or two 16x slots for graphics card(s) and a few PCIe 1x slots for slower devices such as soundcards.

johan851 · Sep 11, 2006

I would add to this that 64bit PCI-X slots are longer than 32 bit PCI slots. PCIe slots come in various speeds - typically one or two 16x slots for graphics card(s) and a few PCIe 1x slots for slower devices such as soundcards.

This is true - it's an extended slot. Also, some 64-bit cards are backwards compatible with 32-bit PCI slots and will work in them, but they revert back to 32-bit mode at 133mb/s bandwidth.

deathman20 · Sep 13, 2006

Get 4x 750Gig Drives that takes you up to 3 Terrabytes.

Or get 4x 500Gig drives and move out or sell some of your older drives. Be one heck of an investment thats for sure.

Dang and I thought I was doing good for space hehe.

Dukeman · Sep 16, 2006

Any Silicon Image 3114 or 3124 based SATA card will provide 4 ports and both are good chipsets. Promise also makes so good SATA cards. You could also look at external SATA.

d94 · Sep 16, 2006

bro, if your in heavy need of space, buy a couple 500gb or 750gb drives, to replace all yours - backup the data and sell off the old drives

4x 750gb = 3TB

legionaire45 · Sep 17, 2006

Can Windows XP x86 even recognize 2 or more terabytes? I thought you needed x64 for it to work....

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