PVT.Snowball Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 104 Joined: 07/11/08 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 How many hard drives can you run on a computer... I have 3 right now, two internal, one usb hard drives. Can I put another external on it? Plan on buying 1tb hard drive. Link to comment
jeN Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 5086 Joined: 04/13/07 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 What do you need with that much hard drive space? STOP DOWNLOADING PORN. Link to comment
PotshotPolka Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 6084 Joined: 03/31/08 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 My currently fubar new pc and can hold up to six drives, but right now I have two possibly bricked 500GB ones sitting in it. Link to comment
Modgers1 Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 2903 Joined: 02/01/08 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 One hard drive is enough. I recommend one external for backups too. It doesn't show off your PC, or make your PC any better by adding a ton of Hard Drives. -Modgers Link to comment
BOOWY Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 868 Joined: 04/30/08 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 (edited) I don't see why not. You should be limited only by the number of letters in the alphabet(drive A: to drive Z:) and the output of your power supply unit. When I can afford it I plan to have a computer with a few terabytes in it strictly for storing music, TV shows and movies on it. My own television, no commercials, plays what I like all the time. Edited September 28, 2008 by BOOWY Link to comment
Cooki3Monsta Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 981 Joined: 05/04/08 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 It essentially depends on just how you want to configure things. Most cases limit you to 4 or 6. Each IDE controller can drive 2 drives (master/slave) and most motherboards and add on controller cards come with 2 IDE controllers for a total of 4 drives per motherboard or controller. I believe that SCSI allows thirty drives per bus. External firewire/USB drives could likely have 20 or 30 more. Somehow I doubt if you really want THAT much storage! Backing it all up gets to be an issue even with a single 300Gb drive, at some point you will spend all of your time doing backups. Link to comment
Omar Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 2994 Joined: 03/06/08 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 How many hard drives can you run on a computer... I have 3 right now, two internal, one usb hard drives. Can I put another external on it? Plan on buying 1tb hard drive. Why do you need so much space? ive got a 500 gig and i have only used one third of it.. oh and i got an USB LanDisk wich holds up to 500 gig too, it connects all the PCs in my house together. (my familys and my one.) (my own is best in every way ) Link to comment
Pancake Batter Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 672 Joined: 03/20/07 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 If you're downloading things like HD movies (aka porn), it will eat up space really fast. Link to comment
Cooki3Monsta Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 981 Joined: 05/04/08 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 Used to dl movies but I cant till I get an external drive :001_unsure: Link to comment
Omar Posted September 28, 2008 Content Count: 2994 Joined: 03/06/08 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2008 LOl, i remember seeing this episode of Arby n the chief, Master chief was downloading a 1000 gig porn file. arbiter was like "but thats like porn for a month" and the camera is towards Cheif wich was standing beside a vasaline bottle LOL! Link to comment
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