How can I connect multiple hard drives to my computer?
Written by admin on April 15, 2009 – 10:04 am -I have a camcorder, and want to connect multiple hard drives to my pc to save the different videos I take.
I want to use 'regular' hard drives. I guess I would need some kind of case to connect multiple hard drives? Is there some kind of 'stack' or some such 'thing' for this purpose?
I am thinking about connecting 10 hard drives at the same time. I want to connect them via the USB, if possible (1st choice). Or would I need to connect the 'stack' directly to the motherboard?
Would this work and is it possible, and how would I do it?
I forget to mention that I meant, all the hard drives in one case.
I know you can get USB hard drive cases.
But I want the hard drives all in the SAME case/stack.
Seems to me you're looking for something a little more sophisticated since you already know you can use external casings and connect them to a USB hub.
I'm not sure why you want to use "10 hard drives", but if your objective is to separate the video categories, you can use one huge harddisk with mulitple partitions so they can be accessed as different drives (c:\, d:\, e:\....).
If you're willing to spend a little more money for a robust solution, take a look at network access storage solutions. I won't go into the details about performance and fault tolerance here, but you can easily find such products and their features on the internet.
As a start, see http://www.buffalotech.com/products/storage.php. You can get up to 2,000Gb of space.
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By alcavy609 on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
Why not just a second large hard drive? Computers allow for such an addition one is "master" and the second "slave". Or, you can put a different operating system on each and decide which you will use on startup. I've done this on one computer where I have Win98, Puppy Linux, and Unix
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By justinacast on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
USB would work. You can only fit 4 directly to standard motherboards. Only down side with the USB approach is that the USB data transfer rate is spread accross all drives. This should not be a problem if you intend to read and write from no more that 3 at a time. You would be better to have 3-4 drives allocated to each USB slot into computer.
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By joseph_abri on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
if you would like to connect multiple hard drives on ur pc, u can do it externally or internally, it depends whether its sata, or ide drives, u can connect as many hard drives as available in the motherboards, usually its 2, max to 4, if without dvd drive, if external u can connect as many as u want, u can by a harddrive external storage or just by an external casing that is usb capable, then connect as many as u want, though data speed may differ if usb or serial is used. for video editing that would be fine.
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By aaaleeex on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
For a quick answer, I'd say you have 2 options:
USB (I'm not really so sure about this). If you have a motherboard with USB2.0 support(is faster than normal USB), you can buy an USB swith, wich enable to connect several devices to it, so maybe you could connect all the 10 HD to the computer.
The other option is to use scsi, you would need to buy a scsi card (it must be plugged on the motherboard), and you can connect several HD to the scsi card. Scsi is very ofthen used on servers and real workstations, so maybe you could find a little disk array for that objective.
like this one from HP:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/sharedstorage/sacluster/msa20/index.html
Been honest, I don't know wich one is faster. Maybe doing a google search for "scsi vs usb vs sata" would help.
By the way SATA it's a new technology but is not familiar to me.
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By Jarret T on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
Buy a server case, and put all what you want in there and then buy 2-3 PCI IDE controller card should be avaliable at a computer hardware store or someing along the lines of the type.
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By Adrift on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
Seems to me you're looking for something a little more sophisticated since you already know you can use external casings and connect them to a USB hub.
I'm not sure why you want to use "10 hard drives", but if your objective is to separate the video categories, you can use one huge harddisk with mulitple partitions so they can be accessed as different drives (c:\, d:\, e:\….).
If you're willing to spend a little more money for a robust solution, take a look at network access storage solutions. I won't go into the details about performance and fault tolerance here, but you can easily find such products and their features on the internet.
As a start, see http://www.buffalotech.com/products/storage.php. You can get up to 2,000Gb of space.
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By sulaiman s on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
Use a USB connection or even A HUB.
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By mariagethai on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
I don't think it's easily possible
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