hard drive

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

i got a question...i have 2 hard drives in my computer now, and i just got another one the other day. i only have 2 spots to hook up hard drives, so how would i hook up a third? its probably simple...but i have no clue.

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[Hook Me Up 10+ year member]

what i did i got a new wire type thing and had a guy program it all so they all hooked up together and plugged in and used the same memory.

maybe there is an easier way i dunno i just had a comp dude do it for liek 30 bucks including the wiring

 

[Moe Lester 10+ year member]

if you have nowhere else to plug it up, youll need an expansion card (SATA, ATA100/133, SCSI) that works with your hard drive.

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

Are you hooking these up as a RAID? How big are they? Sounds like one sexy PC...

 

[vosschs 5,000+ posts]

if you have nowhere else to plug it up, youll need an expansion card (SATA, ATA100/133, SCSI) that works with your hard drive.

i doubt its a scsi HD and a ATA 100/133 is older..... iirc its prolly sata

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

Are you hooking these up as a RAID? How big are they? Sounds like one sexy PC...

no...not sexy at all. i started of w/ a 13gig, then got (for free) a 20gig. and now got (for free) another 20gig. whats raid, and sata, and all that other junk?

 

[vosschs 5,000+ posts]

ok if its 20 gig it could be ata 100/133 not scsi there usually with networks/servers

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

no...not sexy at all. i started of w/ a 13gig, then got (for free) a 20gig. and now got (for free) another 20gig. whats raid, and sata, and all that other junk?

lol, Well that is 53 gigs, what do you use your computer for that you need that much memory? I have a 160 gig HD, but only have 26 gigs used... For normal PC use, I would say you will be fine with the 33 gigs you have. Or just sell all three on eBay, and buy a single 60-80 gig drive.

 

[vosschs 5,000+ posts]

umm with my 80 gig i have 11 gigs left..... few games 6 gigs plus, a few dvds, 700 "paid for songs"

 

[vosschs 5,000+ posts]

jellyfish, comming from the main board to the HD is a IDE cable, looks like a wide cable with 40 or so wires, there should be another plug on it just plug it into the 2nd HD then plug a power supply hook up into it, then set the master and slave functions

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

jellyfish, comming from the main board to the HD is a IDE cable, looks like a wide cable with 40 or so wires, there should be another plug on it just plug it into the 2nd HD then plug a power supply hook up into it, then set the master and slave functions

thats how the first 2 are. the second ide cable goes to my dvd drive, and my dvd burner... so where would the 3rd drive go?

 

[vosschs 5,000+ posts]

ok on the same IDE cable there should be another plug, is there?

 

[vosschs 5,000+ posts]

does it look like that

 

[brad 10+ year member]

Dont forget to get the jumper settings correct if it is a IDE, which it most likely is. You will probably need to buy a pci adapter card but they are fairly cheap at newegg.com (where I bought all of my computer parts from).

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

does it look like that

ya. one end goes to board, one plug to hd1, and the other to hd2

second cable, one end goes to board, one plug to drive1, and the other to drive2.

so i need a pci adapter card to run a third ide cable?