How many hard drives

[aceofrazgriz]

almost infinite drives. count your IDE (count each IDE slot on mobo as 2 drives) and SATA ports, then your USB ports and any e-SATA, or Firewire too. then thats how many you can have. add some PCI/PCI-E cards for more. But if you go anymore than 2 internal drives... i'd suggest using RAID. I run a RAID 0 right now with 2 320GBs (acts as one drive, "stripes" data onto the 2) and my performance is up 40% over regular 7200RPM drives. Problem is i have no backup or UPS lol. so if i encounter a problem where a HDD would normally drop dead, i lose both .

 

RAID is the way to go, especially for extremely large amounts of files... RAID up some raptors in any 0 configuration and WHOA.

 

SCSI drives generally are 15000RPM but i think theres some OS and mobo limitations to using SCSI, and the price is much higher.

 

Solid State drives are ABSOLUTELY top of the line in basically all specs of HDDs. But insanely expensive currently.