I have 1.78TB (unformatted) worth of working, 3.5" hard drives. 6 160s, a 320 and a 500. Today I finally got them all in the case with decent airflow so they're not cooking each other but I still have a problem. I stubbed my toe but I also have a problem related to the drive issue.
I can't plug all them in. Five of those drives are SATA. I have four SATA ports on the mobo.
Frak.
So I would like to offer the following proposal. I am willing to trade two of the 160 SATAs (a samsung and a seagate) for a single 250gb SATA. I will also throw in a 160 IDE in order to get a 320+ SATA.
Why don't I just buy a bigger hard drive since they're so cheap? Well I'll tell you, Mr Nosey Posey McPrying.
My problem is not lack of space. I'm only taking up a little over a terabyte of that space so I have plenty of room. My beef is the fact that I can't use all my drives at once. For some odd reason it really, REALLY bugs me to have a perfectly functional hard drive in my possession that is not spun up. Why? I dunno.
I SAID I DON"T KNOW, OK?
A non-spinning drive just sitting in the case being oh-so-unuseful irks me like one of those silly why-do-we-drive-on-a-parkway-and-park-on-a-driveway question or why they put braille on a drive-up ATM. If the Xbox had SATA I'd throw it in there or maybe not considering I killed my last one hard-modding it so I think I'll stick with the softmod but seriously folks what's the deal with airline no wait hard drives c'mon dudes help a brother out.
Also, I only like using laptop drives for external uses since they're easier to tote around (yes I said tote, deal with it).
I can't plug all them in. Five of those drives are SATA. I have four SATA ports on the mobo.
Frak.
So I would like to offer the following proposal. I am willing to trade two of the 160 SATAs (a samsung and a seagate) for a single 250gb SATA. I will also throw in a 160 IDE in order to get a 320+ SATA.
Why don't I just buy a bigger hard drive since they're so cheap? Well I'll tell you, Mr Nosey Posey McPrying.
My problem is not lack of space. I'm only taking up a little over a terabyte of that space so I have plenty of room. My beef is the fact that I can't use all my drives at once. For some odd reason it really, REALLY bugs me to have a perfectly functional hard drive in my possession that is not spun up. Why? I dunno.
I SAID I DON"T KNOW, OK?
A non-spinning drive just sitting in the case being oh-so-unuseful irks me like one of those silly why-do-we-drive-on-a-parkway-and-park-on-a-driveway question or why they put braille on a drive-up ATM. If the Xbox had SATA I'd throw it in there or maybe not considering I killed my last one hard-modding it so I think I'll stick with the softmod but seriously folks what's the deal with airline no wait hard drives c'mon dudes help a brother out.
Also, I only like using laptop drives for external uses since they're easier to tote around (yes I said tote, deal with it).
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