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Old September 30th, 2002 Top | #1
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What is a good card to buy if i want to add on more hard drives?

Currently im running 2 hard drives on my computer but I want to run 2 more 180 gig hard drives and was curious if I could buy a ultra card to hold more devices?


Also would the ultra card hold cd rom drives and other ide devices?

Are there any drawbacks to using a ultra card?
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Old September 30th, 2002 Top | #2
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those card I belive can only hold 2 ide devices... and it would be any ide devices like cd rom or harddisks.... if you want to put more ide things in ... you need more cards..
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IDE PCI controller card
Promise TX2 Ultra ATA133 x4 channel IDE Controller PCI £34.08


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Those PCI cards will take 4 devies easy, they have 2 IDE channels capable of running drives in master/slave/cable select mode, oe of my friemds is using one.

Short of that buy yourself a mobo with a RAID controller and use the RAID controller to just add extra drives to.
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most mobo's come with 2 ide channels capable of holding 4 devices being either hdd's or atapi devices...

RAID cards can add more hdd;s to your rig... but remember... they only add hdd's nothing else... remember that...

many are on the market and don't cost much at all..
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pci raid controllers have 2 or 4 channels and can support 2 to 8 harddrives, depending on which one you get. i wouldn't hook anything but harddrives up to them, though.

i don't see any drawbacks to using one of these cards.
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promise is the best place, ata100 and ata133 cards can be had cheap on ebay even
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