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April 16th, 2006, 05:05 PM
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Is there a downside to too many external HD's
I have two externals attached to my system via usb ports (Dell 4700 xp pro sp2) plus an additional 2 fixed hard drives, plus 2 dvd rom/rw. Occasionally I have a key hard drive attached to as I transfer between pc's.
Downside to so much usb portage? I don't know. Doesn't seem to have impacted me yet, but with the ease of installation of the external hard drives you're only bound by number of usb ports, or so it seems.
Just wondered if the techies amongst us know the answer?
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April 16th, 2006, 05:24 PM
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If there were a downside, you would have seen it by now 
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April 16th, 2006, 10:56 PM
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DOS-based Windows ran out of drive letters at Z:
I've never researched, does XP do anything to mount drives beyond this?
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April 17th, 2006, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Platypus
DOS-based Windows ran out of drive letters at Z:
I've never researched, does XP do anything to mount drives beyond this?
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Not with Basic disk volumes, but it does have Dynamic disks available, which I think can overcome some of the limitations, though I might be wrong - I haven't ever looked at dynamic disks in detail.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314343/EN-US/
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April 17th, 2006, 11:37 AM
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You could use Dynamic discs to overcome drive letter limitations. Just have to make them all subdirectories on Z: or whatever letter you wanted.
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April 17th, 2006, 11:44 AM
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It has always been a dream of mine to add enough drives to have a ZCBDE:\ drive....but I don't have room in my basement for that kind of system....
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April 17th, 2006, 12:17 PM
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April 17th, 2006, 12:27 PM
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You bet....I was real excited when someone told me there were Raptors in Jurassic Park....I was real disappointed when I saw that they were only dinosaurs. 
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April 18th, 2006, 04:23 PM
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You could probably buy bulk 100MB drives on ebay. You'd end up spending more on power supplies, ide controllers, and electricity than on the drives themselves... but to prove a point you could go crazy with it.
Then you'd have to use windows to put them in a single 60GB array.
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April 18th, 2006, 11:55 PM
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Haha, fun stuff.
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