How many hard drives to a desk top? Is there a way to have to much memory?

Answer 1

Normally one hard drive to a desktop unless it comes with more or you add more,

And yes you can have to much memory. If you add more than the mother board will support. Such as some only support up to 2gb or 4 gb. IF you had a mother board that supported unlimited amount of ram then NO NEVER TO MUCH MEMORY

Answer 2

If your PC has EIDE (wide ribbon cables) connecting your HD, you have 2 connectors that support 4 devices. These are physical devices, not virtual. If you have 1 DVD player then you can have 3 more HD. Your "C" drive is normally your boot drive and contains your operation system.

If your PC has SATA (thin cables that look a little like speaker wire) you can have from 4 to 12 as well as from 2 to 4 EIDE devices.

Yes, you can have too much memory. Some Operating Systems (OS) do not support more than a certain amount, some do not support over 32 gig HD's either. In newer PC's the BIOS is the limiting factor on the memory. With Windoze 95 through XP you really don't need more than 1 gig of memory because the system will not allocate more with any efficiency. I don't know about Vista.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

there is no relationship between hard drives and desktops.

One hard drive can support dozens or even hundreds of desk tops, and one desktop can have many hard drives, mine currently uses 4 drives but only I log onto my computer so only 1 desktop.

a desktop is a "user environment", it is customized and created for each account name that logs onto a given computer. you can have many accounts per computer.

Hard drives are a medium used to store data, as long as you have enough storage space you can have as many user accounts and as many files as you want on one drive or on many.

There is an upper limit on memory in all cases but generally speaking for the consumer more memory is better up to the limit of the mother board's capacity to handle it as the earlier poster said. These days operating systems like windows can generally use more memory than our mother board can handle.

Answer 4

as many as your other hardware will support. your Motherboard, power supply, and case must be able to supply them...... other than those, no you cant get too much