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tdcnq2 The Mystic Llama
 Post subject: Getting more IDE slots
PostPosted: Wed 01-05-2005 1:37PM 
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all mother boads ive looked at only have 2 ide controllers slots in them, im gonna need like 6 (devices attached not slots) or so, is there a new type of ide cable i need or a motherboard that i just havent seen yet, or some other way to add more IDE devices to my computer (they will be for multiple HDs that ill be purchasing this summer)

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you need a IDE controller card.

Promise makes some good ones. Maxtor ones are made by Promise.

SIIG cards are okay...

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so something like this?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=280534&CatId=508

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exactly
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do you plan on setting up a raid array??

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductde ... 004&DEPA=1
Highpoint is an older company in the controller card business and have done well. This card should do you okay. Also, this is newegg...tigerdirect isn't doing so hot. http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1983.html

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and if you really wanted to go cheap:
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductde ... 001&DEPA=1

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I ran 6 ide devices on my mobo before it crapped out. Gigabyte GA-7VRXP.

Still looking for a cheap replacement. Anyone got some offers?

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go sata, they make some mobos these days w/ 6-8 sata connectors + 2 ide connectors
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I've had some mobos with 4 IDE ports giving you a total of 8 devices. Look around, you shouldn't have much trouble finding a board with 4 of them
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whats a Raid array? i just plan on having around a tetrabyte(?) of storage, im gonna setup a couple game servers to run off it such as HL2 or TF2 when it comes out, right now my mobo that i plan on using is a Gigabyte tech model Ga-8ID533, unless someone else has a better suggestion, its got enough pci ports to do most anything i should need, max the ram out on it, its gonna be my summer project when ive got the spare money



http://www.mainboard.cz/mb/gigabyte/GA-8ID53311.htm

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RAID is pretty spiffy. Right now I'm running 4x120GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration using Linux software RAID and am pretty happy with it. Throughput is around 25-30MB/s, with all drives on the motherboard controller.

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