HD storage extenders
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- pr2
My third Hd is almost filled to its capacity. All 3 are huge HDs so simple exchage for a bigger one won't cut it. Obviously i can't get another one as theer are only 4 slots on the motherboard. I was thinking, is there equipmnet that would allow me to have more that 3 HDs?
- ribit0
What interface is it? ATA? How big are your present disks? etc...
I would think your best bet is a bigger HD to replace one of em... surely they arent all 500GB or larger? ...or start adding on Firewire(IEE1394/iLink) drives...I think you can have like 70 of em on the bus...
- pr2-1
All of them are on those gray cables inside computer. What is it SATA? All my current ones are 120 GB. I know there are larger ones but it seems a waste to just throw such nicely big HDs.
- fate0
I know this isn't helping, but what do you have that is eating 480gigs?!
- pr2-1
video
- fate0
- hk_dwayne0
http://www.lacie.com/products/pr…
might be a safer bet :-) I think I'd cry if i lost 1TB of data somehow though.....
- pr2-1
yeah... true, that's why i was thinking more about some kind of motherboard extender that just lets you connect more HDs to your system.
- hk_dwayne0
hmm...cant find the link I was after but...
a) why dont you just get a PCI SCSI or ATA card and run externals off it?
b) go with the previous suggestion of getting a firewire drive setup and add externals off it?
The link I was looking for was a company that used to make a PCI card that hooked out of the host computer to another box that you could put 4-8 drives in. It was designed for exactly the purpose you are after, but it was pre-firewire days, so my assumption is that its probably cost-prohibitive now. Will keep looking :-)
- pr20
Isn't FireWire slower than those "gray cables" inside?
- atomica0
hehe gray cables, you mean IDE.... just get another ATA controller card... and mount some more drives to that, using your 'gray cables' :P
- ribit0
or move your little 120Gb drives out into some Firewire housings as externals and go buy some nice new 250GB-500GB internal drives..