How did he fit 12 hard drives in his PC?!!

bartthecartoon · 07-21-2005, 08:55 PM

Some guy wrote a letter to one of the PC magazines that I have a subscription to, and he said that he had 12 hard drives in his computer. He also said that he had 2 power supplies, I don't know about you guys but I don't have nearly that much space in my computer, how did he do it?

Elbatrop1 · 07-21-2005, 08:58 PM

You can get server-sized cases, that are able to hold numerous hard drives.

Plus, the drives are most likely SCSI, which allows you to chain a bunch of drives together using interfaces that are capable of large bandwidth.

macdude425 · 07-21-2005, 09:38 PM

It's not uncommon for servers. My dad has 9 in the server in his office, all on a single SCSI chain.

Dark_Sniper* · 07-21-2005, 09:44 PM

elbatrop1 is right plus he should know thats what he does.

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macdude425 Member (again) Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Raul's Wild Kingdom...How 'bout that, huh? Posts: 4,195	It's not uncommon for servers. My dad has 9 in the server in his office, all on a single SCSI chain. __________________ Debian Support Forums!

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