How many HDD's do you

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 main computer (dormant) at home dual boots Windows 98 and Windows XP so i can play my Wacky Wheels and Commander Keen series games. :wink:

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 :stuck_out_tongue:

*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…

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”? :slight_smile:

*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.

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 :stuck_out_tongue: 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.

*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:!

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. :slight_smile:

Cheers!
-Niann

You wouldn’t happen to have the ASUS A7V8X would you? Cause that’s the one I have.

This here picture is taken of my 5 HDD’s and all the other cables from hell.

IDE cable and SATA cable comparison.

I have an Abit motherboard, IC7 G or something like that, it even has an onboard gigabit LAN device!

*Originally posted by eilsoe *
** … relandR: the limit is at 1024 :wink: not 1000 :slight_smile:

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:

*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

sheesh :sure: er… “bazillion” was a … nevermind …

I’ll just go over there somewhere… :sure:

lol, i was just gonna say, RelandR. i like your humor though.

ahhhhhhh =) … [size=1]a spark of light in an otherwise dark and lonely universe[/size]

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.

=)

you dont download a lot of stuff huh?