HDD RPM=Louder? and 3rd HDD=ok?

[IIIBarcodeIII]

Hi there,

Just about to buy a third hard drive and wondering if its worth the trouble... I currently have two hard drives attached via one IDE cable, is it possible to get IDE cable with three ends or is there another way to allow three HDD's?

Also - choosing a HDD, what typical specification would be best, the noise of my second HDD is extremely annoying (7200RPM) but my main HDD makes no noise at all (5400RPM), does this mean that the lower RPM the less noise? I also want the accessing the material from the drive to be as fast as possible.

Thanks in advanced!

[Vigo]

Two ide devices to an interface. Scsi allows you to piggy back them but I don't believe you can with ide devices. You can however purchase an ata controller and stick it in an open pci slot. Thats probably the easiest solution since some retail kits come with the controller card.

Higher rpm's can mean more noise pollution but it really depends on how well (make) the drive is built.

If speedy is what your looking for find out how much cache is on your current drives and what ata interface you have.

[Redfallon]

lower RPM equals less noise and slower read/write times. It's a tradeoff, 7200RPM's are in the middle. If you want max read/write speed, 10,000 RPM SATA are the fastest you can get without going to SCSI.

[IIIBarcodeIII]

Thanks to both of you,

Decided to buy a considerably larger drive to replace by current second one - didn't want the hastle with the adaptors.

Thanks again,

[Jaggannath]

That's what I was going to suggest
What you doing with the smaller HDD you aren't using any more??