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Old 08-04-2004, 14:24   #9
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Cool Re: Maximum Number Of Internal Hard Drives
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Originally Posted by SOSAGES
got a pic of the inside of your case? would help

but there is always room for drives .resting on the bottom, where the floppy lives, sitting in the cd rom bays hanging from the roof on wire and covered using bubble rap

do u need 4 drives? get 2 huge ones or even one small one to boot from and one huge one to do with what ya like.

how about an external usb/firewire drive ..all sorts u can do and im sure they will fit just nudge em in ..

what other stuff do u have in the pc in the way of dvd's etc
Sorry,I don't have a picture of the inside of the PC. The case is 17 inches wide by 6 inches high by 16.25 inches deep. It was built circa 1997.

The back left corner is occupied by the existing QDI Brilliant motherboard with 4 PCI slots,3 isa slots and 3 memory slots which I intend to replace.

The right back corner is occupied by the power supply.

The front right corner is taken up by 3, 5.25" bays.The top one contains my CD-ROM drive.The second bay contains a hard drive cooler behind which is a hard drive caddied with the CD-ROM above.The third and bottom drive is blocked off and apparently unused, though I do intend to put an Audigy Platinum unit in there.

In the front middle I have a 3.5" floppy drive, a 3.5" Iomega 100MB zip drive and a second hard drive ( not visible) all caddied together. The only available space is the front left corner space just in front of the motherboard, but I'm concerned at the moment as to how I might safely attach them, particularly if I have to move the PC for some reason.

I'm essentially trying to maximise usage of the facilities on the motherboard and get myself a system that is super-fast and has high storage and expandibility potential.

It may well be that I will have to content myself with two large serial ATA drives preferably in a RAID configuration.

But it will be interesting to hear what others think. And thank you to all those who have commented while I was writing this epistle.
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