On 6/3/05, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great price, but these days you start running into limits on how many > > drives you can put in a system, due to bays, IDE controllers and power. > > (Though you can buy external usb boxes for more than the post-rebate cost > > of this drive.) > > I'm one of the lucky few with 4 channels of IDE (up to 8 drives) > supported in linux (it's an older gigabyte board). So the real limit > in my system is power, heat, noise, and space! :-)
Yeah, I really miss these boards too, you can get them for Athlon XP CPUs still, Newegg has a few, but not for any newer chips. You can get boards with 4 or even 8 SATAs though. PATA-SATA adapters at almost $20/piece are a bit pricy if you want to reuse a whole case of disks though. > > - Jeff > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
