how many hardrives can you have in one computer

[Shady]

I'm sure there's some way to get around that...

why ....? is it possible to merge two drives on two different HDDs ?

 

[Bobo]

why ....? is it possible to merge two drives on two different HDDs ?

I don't know....I was hoping that somebody else would

 

[magicman]

why ....? is it possible to merge two drives on two different HDDs ?

This may be an answer to your question.

 

[Lamilia]

what about if you use a few of these? wouldnt you be able to have more than 4 then?

 

[TheChef]

Of course you would. The number of drives we could stuff into a system is amazingly high, as we have established. Now, the question still remains. Why?

 

[Bobo]

Why?

Hmm....something for insanely rich people to do with money that has no other purpose? lol...that wouldn't be me.

 

[Shady]

This may be an answer to your question.

thanks magicman

 

[Spi1lz]

Now that you can plug in like 165 Hd's...

Let's do the math...

(not sure how high HD's go, so lets use 500GB HD's)

165 x 500 = 82,500GB...

Lets put that out in words here...

Eighty Two Thousand Five Hundred Giga Bytes...

That is insane...

 

[Lamilia]

thats about 82.5 tb right? They have 750 gb hard drives now.

 

[SFR]

thats about 82.5 tb right? They have 750 gb hard drives now.

... Just buy one of these:

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10351

 

[Lamilia]

... Just buy one of these:

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10351

I have trouble getting to 10gb with my 250gb hdd I dont think or anyone else (except someone with A LOT of music) will need that much space for quite a while. Aww this isn't helpful I gotta delete it otherwise I go against what i said in my sig. Ahh well at least its not a post on that word association thing.

 

[Dngrsone]

Most motherboards have a pair of IDE channels on them, two drives per. You can add at least two additional IDE controller cards (most I've done, more may be possible) for an additional four drives per-- that's ten IDE drives.

It is possible to RAID a bunch of smaller drives into a single virtual volume. Each SATA channel holds one drive, though one can use a port multiplier with SATA II for up to 15 drives per channel (bandwidth is a limiting factor).

I have yet to see anything that specifies a technical limit to the number of drives one can attach to a computer, but common sense dictates that physical architecture and available bandwidth would impose limits.