Hard drive choice

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Wed Mar 7 13:25:47 PST 2007


Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:

<snip>
>> But I have lots of PCI slots on this MB so
>> can I get more controllers for more drives?  Don't laugh if it's a
>> stupid question; how am I supposed to know, eh?
> 
> Yes, you could purchase additional PCI SATA controllers to attach more 
> drives.  I'm puzzled as to why your mobo only has two SATA connectors. 
> Every board I've seen in the past few years usually has 4 or more.  I've 
> even seen a few with 16(!).

It doesn't have SATA connectors, it has IDE connectors.
But that's good news about the multiple SATA thing.
Oh, boy, oh, boy, I'm going to Fry's, I'm going to Fry's.



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Tony Alfrey
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