What methods could I go about using for hooking up about a dozen ATA hard drives simultaneously onto one single PC? i want to avoid using any internal IDE or external USB, most of them are used up anyway.
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Anonymous2006-10-20 23:25
PCI cards, three or four of them. Also, be sure you have a decent PSU. IIRC, you'll need 10W per disk plus whatever your CPU, video, etc use.
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Anonymous2006-10-22 0:49
Any easier ways than having to install extra PCI cards? Isn't there some way of utilizing a chain of hard drives and firewire or something else?
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Anonymous2006-10-22 1:51
>>3 Any easier ways...chain of hard drives and firewire...?
If the drives were SCSI you could. Daisy-chaining a dozen external firewire devices will cost you a fuckton of money; especially multi-drive configuration devices. Someone seriously needs to come up with a cheap, no-frills method of running several PATA drives. And I don't mean a 10/100 NAS. Maybe a 10-bay eSATA enclosure; with plenty of cooling like 4x120mm fans.