I found a PCI card that alowed for 4 hard drives, but it was almost 150$. Is there a cable or something that alows 3 hard drives?
2006-07-31 15:35:18 · 6 answers · asked by Mashu 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
So the enclosure is for the internal hard drive, but it converts it to an external? If I am reading that correctly. I didnt even think about my Cd and dvd drives. I didnt know they were the same connectors. I was just wondering about hooking 3 up because I have 2 in there now, one is a 120, and one is a 160. I wanted to put a 400gb one in place of the 120, but that one is my main drive, and its partitioned. So, I have to have 3 drives hooked up at once to transfer stuff accordingly.
2006-07-31 15:54:11 · update #1
Ah, there we go. Double drive cable. I was looking online for a 3 hard drive cable, but the searches came up with random stuff that made no sense. Now a double drive cable would be better then switching drives. Ive simply run out of space.
2006-07-31 15:56:44 · update #2
Would it be safe if I put an internal hard drive in, but just set it in there? Like on the bottom of the case? I ask only because I have no room left...at all...
2006-07-31 17:52:42 · update #3
I do have an external hard drive hooked to a USB, but I only have the 2.0 ports, not the ultra fast 2.0 ports, or whatever its called. It takes forever to pass information. But, I just bought a PCI card with 2 IDE slots, so, now I just need to make a place for another hard drive.
2006-07-31 18:00:28 · update #4
or, slave the 2nd HDD to the master (boot) HDD. If you have 2 CD drives and no more available IDE slots, then I would suggest buying a HDD enclosure and making a usb drive out of it (the 3rd one that is). You can find them at your local compusa or fryes electronics
http://www.compusa.com/products/products.asp?Ntt=HDD+enclosure&N=200063&Ne=200000&Ntk=All&Cn=_Accessories
2006-07-31 15:47:28 · answer #1 · answered by Arclight 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most computer motherboards support at least 4 hard drives.
What you need to do is get two IDE drive ribbon cables that have three connectors on each. Also called a double drive cable. Each cable will allow two drives to be plugged in. One each cable you must designate a master and slave drive, and plug the other end to your primary and secondary IDE controllers, usually marked IDE0 and IDE1. Beyond that the rest is relatively simple. Check a computer building website like MaximumPC.com for more details. Make sure your boot drive is the master on the primary controller.
2006-07-31 15:51:16 · answer #2 · answered by Albert F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you already have 2 hard drives in the computer it is difficult to add more unless you have Raid. The cheap solution is to get an external hard drive enclosure and connect the third drive by USB.
2006-07-31 17:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by Kanuk Komputers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your computer can probably handle it as-is. Get an extra IDE cable, you probably have 1 HDD and CD drive as primary, then hook up the other two as secondary.
2006-07-31 15:41:09 · answer #4 · answered by jim.walker0 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u could always go scic and and u wont have the problem till u hit 8 dvice but then u can go even higher than that by uses luns
2006-08-01 16:50:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try our RAID connectors
2006-07-31 16:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by arpan m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋