more hard drives?

[turn2dust]

im looking for a way to add additional hd's to an already maxed out system.

can i run em off a scsi card into an external case and toss other OS's on em?

maybe run them via USB or Firewire?

or make a longer ide cable and attach them to a untra 100 controller card into a case with a power supply thats been modified?

looking for some way to do this..anything would be appreciated..

links to anywhere that can point me in the right direction would be good also..

[Andy]

the question is not necessarily now many hard drives, but how much hard drive space you want - you can get 4 20 gig hard drives that put more strain on the psu or one 80 gig hard drive that puts a quater of the strain

[turn2dust]

i dont really want to have to go out and get a great big hard drive..i bought myself a nice 30 gig.. but ive kinda come across a situtation and figured this would/is the best way to deal with it..
but i want to deal with it in a way i want to..

im hopin i can some out with some way to mby put em in some type of external case and run them that way

[Andy]

yeah, you can put it in an external case, but if you want ok speeds, you will have to go scsi, firewire or usb 2.0

[ct_]

what kind of case do you have?

i was able to fit 7 drives in a baby AT...

4 off an ATA card, and 3 on the IDE channles on the mobo

if you can fit them - that's yer best bet

otherwise, an external case and some IDE (ata) and power extensions might do the trick, without loss of speed
of course, it'll look like hell ;)