stevebt

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currently have 2 hard drives and 2 writers in my pc one of the drives is on a removeable case and all my pci slots are taken up,and i need more hard disk space 200gig isnt enough how can i add aother drive as switching pc on and off to insert removeable isnt a good idea

Neil Smalley

Unless your motherboard has any SATA(serial ATA) slots or RAID functions then I think the best bet is to get rid of one writer and buy an external one. Then use the spare slot for a hard drive.

Or, get an external(USB) version of any of the cards you are using and buy something like a highpoint RAID controller which will let you have 4 more drives(at least)

Or just get a bigger hard drive.

Or buy a cheap PC(A p2 400 will do(but watch the BIOS will support big drives)), stuff that full of hard disks and use that as a data server. Install games locally on your machine, and stream video/MP3 etc from the server.

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

I put one of my drives in a USB2 external case and it works just as well as an internal one USB2 or Firewire external cases are higly recommended.

You could always delete some of that p0rn you have filling up your drives, that'd free up 100Gb or so

king_tut

Get a PCI Raid adaptor car and you can have up to 4 more hard drives. You get them in PCWorld(yuk cleans mouth with bleech) for about 30-40 dont know what the performance is like though. The IT guy in our other building uses it, in his server.

Hope that helps/

::kriss

stevebt

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asus a7n8x board has raid and sata but i like the idea of extrenal usb, how much is a case for a hard drive

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Around £35 mate (edit: for a USB2 caddy)

[Edited by DJ Dunk - 8/19/2003 4:52:38 PM]

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

djdunk post a link for that case