drewster2100 Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 hay, i just wanted to know how i would go about adding another hard drive, i have 2 connected at the moment, but no more spots, would i need another ide cable with 4 spots on it, or what? also, whats the best RAID to use and how would i get started using that? thanks, ladr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple-a-Day Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 Originally posted by drewster2100 hay, i just wanted to know how i would go about adding another hard drive, i have 2 connected at the moment, but no more spots, would i need another ide cable with 4 spots on it, or what? also, whats the best RAID to use and how would i get started using that? thanks, ladr yes to the second cable for another drive, as for raid theres lotsa info at promise.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaraBoft Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 I won't recommend attaching a 3th drive to a ide cable. It will blow your harddisk....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewster2100 Posted July 1, 2002 Author Share Posted July 1, 2002 Originally posted by LaraBoft I won't recommend attaching a 3th drive to a ide cable. It will blow your harddisk....... well how else would i add another? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulladle Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 Get a cheap PCI ATA133 RAID card and you'll have another 4 drive options (also supports big 160MB drives), mind you I suspect you're going to be running out of power supply leads before you've filled a monster case with drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyy4 Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 Originally posted by LaraBoft I won't recommend attaching a 3th drive to a ide cable. It will blow your harddisk....... 3th??? I have only heard of 3rd the last time I checked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewster2100 Posted July 1, 2002 Author Share Posted July 1, 2002 Originally posted by paulladle Get a cheap PCI ATA133 RAID card and you'll have another 4 drive options (also supports big 160MB drives), mind you I suspect you're going to be running out of power supply leads before you've filled a monster case with drives. would those drives be slower than the ones going through ide? and i have a 300 watt power supply, so i would be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulladle Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 EIO AP1680 PCI ATA133 RAID (RAID 0 1) Controller Card W/Cable - Retail Box ?19.98 ?23.48 inc VAT QuickFind code: 33743 Mfr part #: AP1680 Product Information Support IDE RAID 0 (Striped set), RAID 1(Mirrored set) and RAID 0+1 (Striped+Mirror) under MicrosoftR Windows OS System Boot up from standard and RAID Volume supported Support ULTRA ATA133 / 100 IDE Hard Disk Drive Coexist with on-board IDE controller Dual Independent IDE channels connect up to Maximum 4 IDE devices Maximum IDE data transfer rate up to 133Mbyte / Second Support up to 137GB Big drive with LBA addressing On-Board Upgradeable Flash BIOS support Easy RAID Configuration with DOS Boot up menu Support PIO, DMA and Ultra DMA modes PCI Local bus Revision 2.2 compliant 32-bit PCI Bus Master support Fully PCI Plug and Play Told you they were cheap but admittedly this one only says it supports drives up to 137GB, I seem to remember the Maxtor 160GB drive comes with an AT133 controller card as most pre-ATA133 BIOS have a size limitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaraBoft Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 **3th??? I have only heard of 3rd the last time I checked...** Sorry....... :disappoin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewster2100 Posted July 1, 2002 Author Share Posted July 1, 2002 gosh! thanks so much for your help!! one more question, whats the best raid to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 Hey heres the description for what I imagine is a card you need to get more IDE spaces AT100 Controller Card, adds 4 x AT100 IDE Ports Is that what I would need if I wanted to add more IDE to my machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulladle Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 Depends on what you want to do - Mirrored gives you more security at the cost of space (as stuff is duplicated over the drives) and striped gives you the ability to have your drives appear as one enormous volume. Personally I've got my CD drives on a very cheap old ATA66 card (non-RAID) which lets me run all my drives as master on their own channel. And yes that AT100 Controller Card would give you an extra 4 IDE channels Osiris however like I said before your PSU needs to be man enough for the job (probably 400W) and have enough spare connectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted July 1, 2002 Share Posted July 1, 2002 Thanks mate Yes its a 400W doesnt really have any spare power connectors but you can buy splitters cant you, which will give me addition power connectors if im not mistaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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