sometimes curiosity killed the cat, then again...

[Izumui Abriel]

Okay guys, today I got really curious, and was thinking about hard drives, and slaving hard drives; what it boils down to is IDE cables and connections, but you can't have IDE connections or cables for the matter without a motherboard.
Well I was wondering just how much MAXIMUM SPACE you could get, i say a 120 gb hd and another one slaved for a total of 240 gb of hd space. now I was wondering if you could find a hard drive with an extra Primary IDE connector; for example my current Asus mobo has three IDE connectors on it, one, the primary, is for the HD, then one for the CD drive(secondary) and one for the Floppy drive(tertiary). What I would like to find, see, or possibly have is a mobo with an extra primary IDE connector; example two for hard drives(which means you'd have two primary hard drives and two slaved HDs), one for floppy and one for the CD drive.

has anyone seen this, and more importantly, is it even possible?
I mean it would be a rather cool, however pointless, combo to have for 120 or 160 gb hard drives; you'd have 480 to 640 gbs of hard drive space, which would never find use, but would it would be cool to say "I've got 640 giga bytes on my computer, what have you got? A dinky little 40 gig? Muwhahahahahahahahahahaha!".........yes, that was an evil laugh!

-Izumui Abriel

[HAL9000]

All "standard" motherboards have 2 IDE connectors (floppy isn't IDE), each IDE connector can hold two drives making any combination of up to 4 hard drives and opticals possible. Some boards have IDE RAID controllers making 8 IDE drives possible... some boards now have the 2x IDE, 2x IDE RAID, 2x SATA connections making 8x IDE + 2 SATA drives, totalling 10 drives possible. You can add controller cards such as those made by Promise Technologies to add 4 drives... how many drives do you want?

Anyway... 640GB is nothing... I'm still waiting for the go on the server here at the university... 6.3TB + 216x 80GB... thats 23,580GB.

[icallmedan]

There is one nForce 3 board (I am pretty sure the ASUS one) that has 3 IDE ports right on the motherboard.

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...131-465&depa=1

If you look at the specs....it says 3x IDE, and you can see them in the pics. So you could have 4 HDDs and 2 optical drives.

[Panama Red]

Like this?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...2-007&depa=0:D

oops, too slow

[Izumui Abriel]

first off, I didn't know floppy was IDE, makes sense. and second; I hate you!(fesciously) Stupid SERVERS! That's rather unfair! i don't even have a cable internet connection!!!!!! roar!!!!!!!

-Izumui Abriel

[Cricket]

Originally posted by HAL9000 I'm still waiting for the go on the server here at the university... 6.3TB + 216x 80GB... thats 23,580GB.

Wow!

Cricket