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April 16th, 2006, 05:05 PM
#1
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?
Philo
Running: (1) Windows 7 Home Premium (Dell Studio 540)
and (2) Windows XP Home SP3 (Dell Optiplex 330)
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April 16th, 2006, 05:24 PM
#2
If there were a downside, you would have seen it by now
If you're happy and you know it......it's your meds.
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April 16th, 2006, 10:56 PM
#3
DOS-based Windows ran out of drive letters at Z:
I've never researched, does XP do anything to mount drives beyond this?
Pleased to have been a Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) 2007/8, 2008/9
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April 17th, 2006, 11:17 AM
#4
 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?
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/
Nick.
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April 17th, 2006, 11:37 AM
#5
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
#6
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....
Desktop: Intel i7 960 CPU @ 4.0GHz, EVGA Classified 4-Way SLI mobo, 12GB Corsair Dominator-GT 2000 DDR3 RAM, Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB Solid State Drive, Two WD 2TB SATA drives, 2x EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked graphics cards in SLI, Coolermaster HAF X full tower case, OCZ ZX 1250w PSU, Corsair H100 CPU Cooler
Laptop: MSI GT60-004US, 2x Seagate Momentus XT 750GB SSD Hybrid drives in RAID 0, 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM, GeForce 670M 3GB graphics card, Networks 'Killer' N-1103 WLAN card
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April 17th, 2006, 12:17 PM
#7
Some folks count sheep if they can't get to sleep. Bistro counts hard drives (especially Raptors) 
Nick.
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April 17th, 2006, 12:27 PM
#8
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. 
Desktop: Intel i7 960 CPU @ 4.0GHz, EVGA Classified 4-Way SLI mobo, 12GB Corsair Dominator-GT 2000 DDR3 RAM, Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB Solid State Drive, Two WD 2TB SATA drives, 2x EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked graphics cards in SLI, Coolermaster HAF X full tower case, OCZ ZX 1250w PSU, Corsair H100 CPU Cooler
Laptop: MSI GT60-004US, 2x Seagate Momentus XT 750GB SSD Hybrid drives in RAID 0, 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM, GeForce 670M 3GB graphics card, Networks 'Killer' N-1103 WLAN card
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April 18th, 2006, 04:23 PM
#9
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
#10
SPECS:
Motherboard - ASUS A8N5X ATX
Memory - Crucial Ballistix Tracer
PSU - Antec TRUEPOWERII 550w.
Processor - AMD Athlon 64 3700+
HDD - Seagate 250 Gig. 7200.8.
Video Card - XFX 7900GT (Extreme Edition... Yum)
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