EDIT: Grammar wins again.
Edited by PedroDaGR8, 26 January 2009 - 05:30 PM.
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Edited by PedroDaGR8, 26 January 2009 - 05:30 PM.
Three of my IDE drives are small (250G to 350G). I'll be moving the files that're on them onto a 750Gb SATA drive that I just bought. I also bought a 1T hdd for my C drive that I'll be partitioning and some files can go on it too. I've been thinking about it and decided to buy two more 1T drives before the build is finished so that all 12 bays will have a SATA drive in them and my files won't be cramped in the drives that I now have. The few IDE drives that I'll have left over can remain as ext hdds for my backup files. When 2T drives have been around for awhile and the kinks are worked out of them, I'll buy a few of them to replace the 500G to 750G drives that I have (in a year or so). And then there's the converter that I can buy if it becomes available again. So instead of taking the externals apart to see what types of drives are in them, lets forget about them and plan on connecting 12 SATA drives during the build. I'll also have a floppy drive and my DVD drive.I'm pretty sure that the ones that are connected via a USB 2.0 connection are IDE, but I'll open them tomorrow to make sure.
If this is the case, additional expansion cards will be required and a few will likely have to remain as external devices.
Edited by Denisejm, 26 January 2009 - 09:15 PM.
That's great . . . one less part I'll have to think about and can cross off my list. It's coming down to the wire and I'm chomping at the bit to get started.You will not need this: "D&S Cable 8" 4pin Internal Power Connector to 2 SATA Power Adaptor Cable
Yeah, sorry about that.wikipedia is where I went to find out what a PCI interface was and it might as well have been written in Japanese "The PCI Local Bus (usually shortened to PCI), or Conventional PCI, is a computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer. These devices can take either the form of an integrated circuit fitted onto the motherboard itself, called a planar device in the PCI specification or an expansion card that fits into a socket"
But your explanation makes practical sense, which is understandable, not theoretical like wikipedia's. So I understand that I need PCIe.
The SATA cables actually come with the expansion cards, so you don't need any SATA cables. You also have the option to purchase a 8 port card that'll take 8 drives alone, instead of using two 4 port cards. The 8 port card will cost more, but I think you'd like it given that it has the option of setting up a JBOD array, should you go that route in the future. Additionally, it'll keep a PCIe slot open. Aside from that, there isn't any more benefits. I'll let you decide on what you want to do here. Two four port cards would cost you 240$, the eight port card will set you back 260$. Again, I want to make this very clear, if you ever plan on making a RAID array, don't trust you're data with these cards. For expansion cards, these will do just fine.* HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCI Express SATA II Controller Card (how many?)
* Data cables (what kind and how many?)
Edited by james_8970, 27 January 2009 - 02:14 PM.
Edited by Denisejm, 27 January 2009 - 04:44 PM.
The case didn't come with any SATA cables, the drives were OEM and the other SATA dives will be taken from external enclosures. The expansion card will have 8 cables for 8 drives, but I'll have 12 drives. I'll have to buy 4 more cables.The SATA cables actually come with the expansion cards, so you don't need any SATA cables.
Edited by Denisejm, 27 January 2009 - 06:16 PM.
Edited by Troy, 27 January 2009 - 06:27 PM.
Edited by Denisejm, 05 February 2009 - 05:10 PM.
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