how do i work out how many hard drives my pc can support?

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  1. manwood

    manwood Geek Trainee

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    Hi all

    I have an Athlon 64 X2 with a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 Serial ATA 300GB Hard Drive. I want to install another large storage drive (500gb) and another smaller drive to backup important files, and the possibly another large storage drive at a later date.

    how do i work out how many internal drives my pc can actually support?

    thanks for any help :)
     
    manwood, Nov 24, 2007
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  2. RHochstenbach

    RHochstenbach Administrator

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    Welcome to HWF :)

    This depends on how many SATA controllers you have. Every SATA controller (SATA port) supports 1 device. If you can't add more internal harddisks, you could eventually buy external harddisks.
     
    RHochstenbach, Nov 24, 2007
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  3. donkey42

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    not necessarily, a SATA controller typically have a set number of SATA ports that can each have only 1 device connected to it & If you use all available SATA ports on your specific controller you can add a PCI SATA controller to enable you to add more SATA ports & devices
    theoretically you can have an unlimited number of HDD connected to any number or SATA of IDE controllers
     
    donkey42, Nov 25, 2007
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  4. zxivate

    zxivate Geek Trainee

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    It depends on how SATA connection your motherboard holds and and how many slots your case has. You can install PCI cards for even more, and if you really want to go crazy wit sorage fill all of your USB ports with externals
     
    zxivate, Nov 26, 2007
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  5. Karanislove

    Karanislove It's D Grav80 Of Luv

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    if you really want to go crazy wit sorage fill all of your USB ports with externals

    I will suggest u should go with a storage server if thats the case
     
    Karanislove, Nov 30, 2007
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  6. Ferg

    Ferg Manbearpig

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    Or bigger hard drives! hehe
     
    Ferg, Nov 30, 2007
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  7. sarishti

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    It depends on number of your SATA controllers.. Each sata controller supports only one device at a time. You can buy another external harddisk instead of internal...
     
    sarishti, Jan 7, 2008
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