Is it possible to safely have 3 HD on 1pc?

i have 4 in mine.


DrunkPenguin

nice, how are they conected?

I currently have 3, had four for a while as well. All of them were connected on their own IDE channel; I got another IDE controller (PCI) for this. Let me tell you, having each on it's own channel is damn freaking fast for IDE drives! Plus you can be doing a crapload of HD-intensive stuff at once and not worry about a thing.

im just using the 2 built in IDE ports, using master and slave on each one. i use that computer as a simple file server so speed is not that important. It has a cdrom installed and i just switch the ide cable on 1 drive if i need it temporarily. since inactive hds will go to sleep if set properly, theres no problems with heat or anything. so go for it!


DrunkPenguin

Holly shit i have 4 hard drives and a pioneer a07 dvd burner and a cdrom drive and a liteon 48x cd-rw and i can still have one more ide device to connect.
The secret is use a motherboard with raid! I use an abit with raid so i can use 8 ide devices and i would never buy a motherboard with only 2 ide channels.

well its not working too well


Here is what i have.......

Master HD is one its not IDE, one of those new things forget what

2nd is lave on IDE

now... When i put the 3rd in with spare IDE the pc hangs on start up


What am i doing wrong???

Thanks

still need help....................

Are the jumper settings correct?

well they are both on slave.........

so that would be 1 master and 2 slave..........

How much do PCI IDE Controllers run?

if you have 2 slaves on the same IDE they won't be detected, one has to be master and one slave.

Do you have 3 hard drives on one IDE cable or do you have 2 hard drives on one ide cable and the third on its own?

more than likely you have 2 IDE pots on your motherboard right? each of those ports can have 2 Hard Drives MAX. so in your case with 3 HDs, you need to take 2 of the HDs and put them on the same IDE port and have them share a cable, 1 of them will be master and 1 of them will be slave. On the other IDE port youll just have 1 HD connected to it, so that HD will just be master.

Make sence?


DrunkPenguin

I can sell you a PCI IDE thingy.. for like 15+shipping if you wanted.. its pretty easy.