[mythtv-users] Lots of bits and pieces...

[Mark]

Tupshin, what are you doing that you need that many hard drives? 
 Potentially, that's Terabytes....  the mind drools....

Tupshin Harper wrote:

> Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
>> At 11:38 PM 6/21/2003 -0700, Tupshin Harper wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> Thanks, a useful site, but even they don't seem to have what I need. 
>>> I'm looking for a case that can easily handle my current setup of 9 
>>> ide hard-drives, 1 floppy(optional), and 1 cdrom. And, I'd even like 
>>> some expansion room ;-). I'm willing to go to about $200, without 
>>> power supply or fans
>>
>>
>>
>> I recently purchased a 10-bay tower case from www.compugeeks.com . It 
>> was a special of the week, about $US30 for it, a keyboard, and a 
>> mouse. Last time I looked, they still had these or similar cases, 
>> though the price was not as good. Included a fairly big P/S (360W, I 
>> think). 
>
>
> www.compugeeks.com points to a networks solutions temporary site...did 
> you mean somewhere else?
>
>>
>>
>> I also recently purchased a 10-bay case from Fry's, also on a weekly 
>> special, for $US5 (after a $25 rebate). Smaller P/S (250W, I think).
>>
>> Both were tower cases. My impression is that 10-bay cases are 
>> starting to become commonplace. But I have not ever seen a case with 
>> 11 or more bays, so I don't know how to accommodate your optional 
>> floppy or "expansion room". 
>
>
> Agreed. 10 bays is common but not enough, and larger is hard to find.
>
>>
>>
>> BTW, how do you run 9 IDE drives? I thought 8 was the limit. 
>
>
> Well, I have a motherboard with 2 regular ide channels, with an 
> onboard highpoint ide-raid controllers with two more ide channels, and 
> a pci promise ide controller with two more. Note that I'm use the raid 
> controller as a regular controller, and doing lvm on top of it all. I 
> have drives at hda,hdb,hdd,hde,hdf,hdg,hdh,hdk, and hdl. Looks like a 
> bit of room to expand before I run out of letters. ;-)
>
> -Tupshin
>
>
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