Quantity of HDDs
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So, How many HDDs can I have installed on my main computer at home, before it becomes sick? I currently have 7 HDDs installed on 1 puter Whats the normal amount for CP 'ers?
Obviously it depends on many factors. 1 IDE controller can support 2 drives. Most computers have at least 2 IDE controllers (primary and seoncdary). Many have 4 for a total of 8, and you can of course add in I/O cards to add more. I'd be more concerned with power though. Lots of drives draw a lot of juice, and if your power supply is not up to the task, expect to hear a big bang. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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Obviously it depends on many factors. 1 IDE controller can support 2 drives. Most computers have at least 2 IDE controllers (primary and seoncdary). Many have 4 for a total of 8, and you can of course add in I/O cards to add more. I'd be more concerned with power though. Lots of drives draw a lot of juice, and if your power supply is not up to the task, expect to hear a big bang. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
Erik Funkenbusch wrote: I'd be more concerned with power though. Lots of drives draw a lot of juice, and if your power supply is not up to the task Uh huh. 8 months or so ago I migrated from a single Athlon XP processor motherboard to a dual Athlon MP processor motherboard. My power supply was a 300 Watt unit. The new motherboard worked mostly but was somewhat flaky (random reboots). After a few moments thought (and some expletives at yet another SETI work unit restarted from scratch after 3 hours of processing) I thought of the power supply. Replaced it with a 600 Watt unit and this system has been rock solid ever since. Ever since is about 7 months and 3 weeks :) Indeed, were it not for the most recent crop of Windows 2000 security updates and a new DVD burner I'd probably have an uptime of about 2 months... Rob Manderson **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
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Cisco4321 wrote: I currently have 7 HDDs installed on 1 puter Seven? :omg: How 'bout just one? Heck, mine isn't even that big (we're talkin' hard drives here!)... just a 30gig'r.
I have six, totalling 648GB, in my main PC 24/7. I am a hoarder so I just add new drives when I run out of space rather than moving old files over to archive, and I do my weekly backup by filling one of two removable 200GB drives with everything on my data drives so 200GB of the total is not-usuable. (Once bitten, twice shy, three times and you can just f**k off if you think I'm going to loose any more data to a corrupt file system.) I still use the very first hard drive I ever bought - a 4.3GB Seagate somethingorother. The next one I get I think I'd better use as an excuse to take out the old drives though, they are a tad on the slow side nowadays. :(
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I have six, totalling 648GB, in my main PC 24/7. I am a hoarder so I just add new drives when I run out of space rather than moving old files over to archive, and I do my weekly backup by filling one of two removable 200GB drives with everything on my data drives so 200GB of the total is not-usuable. (Once bitten, twice shy, three times and you can just f**k off if you think I'm going to loose any more data to a corrupt file system.) I still use the very first hard drive I ever bought - a 4.3GB Seagate somethingorother. The next one I get I think I'd better use as an excuse to take out the old drives though, they are a tad on the slow side nowadays. :(
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wow...648GB , when MS says they expect to see .5 tb drives in near future, I thought who would have those kinda of storage for home use. I guess they are right in some sense :-) Regards, Kannan
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Erik Funkenbusch wrote: I'd be more concerned with power though. Lots of drives draw a lot of juice, and if your power supply is not up to the task Uh huh. 8 months or so ago I migrated from a single Athlon XP processor motherboard to a dual Athlon MP processor motherboard. My power supply was a 300 Watt unit. The new motherboard worked mostly but was somewhat flaky (random reboots). After a few moments thought (and some expletives at yet another SETI work unit restarted from scratch after 3 hours of processing) I thought of the power supply. Replaced it with a 600 Watt unit and this system has been rock solid ever since. Ever since is about 7 months and 3 weeks :) Indeed, were it not for the most recent crop of Windows 2000 security updates and a new DVD burner I'd probably have an uptime of about 2 months... Rob Manderson **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
Rob Manderson wrote: yet another SETI work unit restarted from scratch after 3 hours of processing You were lucky. My experience of a "underrated power supply" was putting the case on the freshly uilt server friday eve, checking again that everything is set up and configured, then switching it off. Come monday morning. Switch on, click. puff. beep. silence. Three drives and the power supply dead. plus an extra day of plugging together stuff, formatting things, and clicking together security. :mad: My last "random boot" was an experience to be told, too (I guess I did here already but... :rolleyes: ) UDMA 5 board. 80 pin cable. UDMA 5 disk drive. In a mobile rack, that goes from the disk drive to the SCSI plug with a 40 pin cable :doh:
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wow...648GB , when MS says they expect to see .5 tb drives in near future, I thought who would have those kinda of storage for home use. I guess they are right in some sense :-) Regards, Kannan
Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote: MS says they expect to see .5 tb drives in near future, I thought who would have those kinda of storage for home use That's just for installing Windows. ;P
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I have six, totalling 648GB, in my main PC 24/7. I am a hoarder so I just add new drives when I run out of space rather than moving old files over to archive, and I do my weekly backup by filling one of two removable 200GB drives with everything on my data drives so 200GB of the total is not-usuable. (Once bitten, twice shy, three times and you can just f**k off if you think I'm going to loose any more data to a corrupt file system.) I still use the very first hard drive I ever bought - a 4.3GB Seagate somethingorother. The next one I get I think I'd better use as an excuse to take out the old drives though, they are a tad on the slow side nowadays. :(
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
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Damn, seven hard drives! I've only got 3 in mine (totaling 153 GB). I've been thinking about getting a fourth though, a SATA Western Digital Raptor drive.:cool: Brad Jennings Sonork: 100.36360 AIM: hongg99
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Once bitten and still using hard drives as a backup? :omg: I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. - Aleister Crowley
It's fast, cheap, easily upgradable when more storage is needed, and there is always going to be a backup no more than seven days old kept offsite incase the drive in the machine fails. Critical data still gets backed up to CD occasionally. What is wrong with that? :~
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I have six, totalling 648GB, in my main PC 24/7. I am a hoarder so I just add new drives when I run out of space rather than moving old files over to archive, and I do my weekly backup by filling one of two removable 200GB drives with everything on my data drives so 200GB of the total is not-usuable. (Once bitten, twice shy, three times and you can just f**k off if you think I'm going to loose any more data to a corrupt file system.) I still use the very first hard drive I ever bought - a 4.3GB Seagate somethingorother. The next one I get I think I'd better use as an excuse to take out the old drives though, they are a tad on the slow side nowadays. :(
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David Wulff wrote: totalling 648GB What on earth do you use it all for??? I have 40GB on my work machine and it's only around half full... Ok.. granted there are laods of network drives around here totaling well over a TB but what could you possible have on 648GB??!?!? The only thing I could think of is if I had ripped most of my DVD's on the HDD. Regards, Brian Dela :-) http://www.briandela.com IE 6 required.
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It's fast, cheap, easily upgradable when more storage is needed, and there is always going to be a backup no more than seven days old kept offsite incase the drive in the machine fails. Critical data still gets backed up to CD occasionally. What is wrong with that? :~
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OK, given that critical data is still backed up to CD, I see the convenience of just quickly doing a non-critical backup to another hard drive, but hard drives are not generally viewed as a really safe backup device. I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. - Aleister Crowley
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David Wulff wrote: totalling 648GB What on earth do you use it all for??? I have 40GB on my work machine and it's only around half full... Ok.. granted there are laods of network drives around here totaling well over a TB but what could you possible have on 648GB??!?!? The only thing I could think of is if I had ripped most of my DVD's on the HDD. Regards, Brian Dela :-) http://www.briandela.com IE 6 required.
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http://www.briandela.com/rss/newsrss.xml RSS FeedBrian Delahunty wrote: What on earth do you use it all for??? Windows. :)
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Cisco4321 wrote: I currently have 7 HDDs installed on 1 puter Seven? :omg: How 'bout just one? Heck, mine isn't even that big (we're talkin' hard drives here!)... just a 30gig'r.
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Obviously it depends on many factors. 1 IDE controller can support 2 drives. Most computers have at least 2 IDE controllers (primary and seoncdary). Many have 4 for a total of 8, and you can of course add in I/O cards to add more. I'd be more concerned with power though. Lots of drives draw a lot of juice, and if your power supply is not up to the task, expect to hear a big bang. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
you can of course add in I/O cards to add more Yeah.. two Maxtor PCI to IDE cards I'd be more concerned with power though Then I'm hoping that the two 450W power supplies hold up. :laugh: Maybe I should part this thing out and make two computers out of it.
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The 10,000 rpm drive is amazingly fast! Systems AXIS Ltd - Software for Business ...
Steve Thresher wrote: The 10,000 rpm drive is amazingly fast! Yeah, I don't keep up with the hardware stuff anymore but I think they're like the second fastest HD you can buy for a desktop computer and they're pretty decently priced.:cool: Brad Jennings Sonork: 100.36360 AIM: hongg99