# How many HDD's do you **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 10, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166 "2003-07-10T02:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/21 "2003-07-10T13:27:14Z")
You could achieve 1 TB sing 4 250 GB hard drives in a server case. If you are getting a new motherboard as well, I would go with one that has on-board RAID which would allow you to stream data to multiple disks - the speed difference is incredible. TD ---
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My main computer (dormant) at home dual boots Windows 98 and Windows XP so i can play my Wacky Wheels and Commander Keen series games. 😉 ---
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I use about 3 gigs. No more, no less. Most of that is the OS. A swf file usually isnt over 100K so I dont need much space 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/24 "2003-07-10T13:34:03Z")
> \*Originally posted by thoriphes \* > \*\*My main computer (dormant) at home dual boots Windows 98 and Windows XP \*\* > How the heck do you do that? I havn’t been able to play “the feeble files” since installing xp… ---
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I’ve got two entire HD’s dedicated to games, mainly duplicated since the things weren’t always networked. Another one is full of media, mp3’s etc. Besides, it wasn’t that long ago when a terabyte was unthinkable. And who remembers Bill Gates saying (something like) “I can’t forsee anyone needing more than 64K of RAM”? 🙂 ---
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> \*Originally posted by TheOrangeOne \* > \*\*How the heck do you do that? I havn’t been able to play “the feeble files” since installing xp… \*\* > What i did was get one of the HDDs from one of my old computers that still had 98 on it and stuck it in my computer. I tried booting to it by messing with the boot sector to no avail. then i found this nifty little program called “OSloader” or something that did it for me! it’s not free though and it has nag windows. but it works. ---
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The SATA is 120 GB’s and cost about 140$ by me. The only thing i had problems with was the installation but that’s because it was my first time with SATA, now i know how to do 😛 Some BS with the motherboard BIOS. Im thinking of buying IDE -\> SATA adapters so i don’t have to have all those big gray/rounded black IDE cables, right now its one hell of a mess. ---
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> \*Originally posted by tobydog \* > \*\*You could achieve 1 TB sing 4 250 GB hard drives in a server case. If you are getting a new motherboard as well, I would go with one that has on-board RAID which would allow you to stream data to multiple disks - the speed difference is incredible. TD \*\* My motherboard supports onboard ide raid and onboard sata raid :geek:! ---
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Wow… Thats a lot of space to use… I have a 120GB Drive in one of my PCs that I use for Premiere temp files and Video that I am editing. Otherwise on my other PCs the 40GB drives are working fine. I can’t see needing more space then I have in them now… But I dont install a whole lot of things anyway. 🙂 Cheers! -Niann ---
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You wouldn’t happen to have the ASUS A7V8X would you? Cause that’s the one I have. ---
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This here picture is taken of my 5 HDD’s and all the other cables from hell. ---
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IDE cable and SATA cable comparison. ---
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I have an Abit motherboard, IC7 G or something like that, it even has an onboard gigabit LAN device! ---
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> \*Originally posted by eilsoe \* > \*\* … relandR: the limit is at 1024 😉 not 1000 🙂 1024 GB = 1 TB (terabyte) \*\* :sure: if yer gonna make a point to pick on _rounded numbers_… …actually that would be 1,073.741824 GB = 1 TB the ‘1024’ applies to the kilobyte all _true_ totals are exponents of 2 … but who’s really counting :sure: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-many-hdds-do-you/25166/35 "2003-07-10T15:20:05Z")
> \*Originally posted by RelandR \* > \*\*1,000 bytes = 1 kilobyte (thousand) > 1,000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte (million) > 1,000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte (billion) > 1,000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte (trillion) > 1,000 terabytes = 1 petabyte (a Bazillion :!: ) How much can you fit in your box ? … depends on a lot - o - factors \*\* its not a bazillion, its quadtrillion mi = 1 bi = 2 tri = 3 quad = 4 its only logical ---
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sheesh :sure: er… “bazillion” was a … nevermind … I’ll just go over there somewhere… :sure: ---
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lol, i was just gonna say, RelandR. i like your humor though. ---
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ahhhhhhh =) … [size=1]a spark of light in an otherwise dark and lonely universe[/size] ---
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Wow, I’m pathetic, I’ve used a 20GB separated 10 and 10 by partitioning and I’ve never used up more than 15GB thankyouverymuch. =) ---
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