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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:00 am
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Hi,
I'm thinking of building a PC to support at least five EIDE devices.

Arcserve Brightstor r11 on Windows 2000 Pro is currently backing up to disk
for us in a five-day rotation and we are storing two days each currently on
250GB drives but we are running out of room.

The M-F daily backup is nearing 125GB. I could buy larger than 250 GB
drives but eventually I would run out again.
If I only had a mother board which supported five 250GB drives I would be
done.

Thanks for any advice.

PS. Yes, we backup to Tape from the disc backup and the tapes go offsite.

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:24 am
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Here is a thought: What if I just added a 2-channel SATA card to this PC and
bought two SATA drives, to go along with the three 250 EIDE drives? Or do I
have to disable EIDE controller?

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:19 pm
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"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels RemoveThis @NoSpamDot.com> wrote in message
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> Have you considered using "mobile racks" or "removable trays" such
> as those made by Kingwin? You could copy the entire primary HD


That would be a good idea but we like not having to change the drives when
we are taking long weekends. Smile
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:55 pm
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you know who maybe wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm thinking of building a PC to support at least five EIDE devices.
>
> Arcserve Brightstor r11 on Windows 2000 Pro is currently backing up
> to disk for us in a five-day rotation and we are storing two days
> each currently on 250GB drives but we are running out of room.
>
> The M-F daily backup is nearing 125GB. I could buy larger than 250 GB
> drives but eventually I would run out again.
> If I only had a mother board which supported five 250GB drives I
> would be done.

There are lots of PCI IDE cards that support 4x drives in addition to your
motherboard.

They're often sold as RAID cards but work fine just as IDE cards.

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:55 pm
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you know who maybe <nguser2u.RemoveThis@spamnotAOL.com> wrote

> Here is a thought: What if I just added a 2-channel SATA card to this PC and
> bought two SATA drives, to go along with the three 250 EIDE drives?

Yes, that will work. So will adding a 4 drive IDE controller too.

> Or do I have to disable EIDE controller?

Nope.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:44 pm
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you know who maybe wrote:

> Here is a thought: What if I just added a 2-channel SATA card to this PC
> and
> bought two SATA drives, to go along with the three 250 EIDE drives? Or do
> I have to disable EIDE controller?

Will work fine. You can also get IDE or SATA RAID controllers that support
up to at least 12 drives--there may be some that do more.

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(Msg. 7) Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:55 pm
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"you know who maybe" <nguser2u DeleteThis @spamnotAOL.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I'm thinking of building a PC to support at least five EIDE devices.
>
> Arcserve Brightstor r11 on Windows 2000 Pro is currently backing up to
> disk for us in a five-day rotation and we are storing two days each
> currently on 250GB drives but we are running out of room.
>
> The M-F daily backup is nearing 125GB. I could buy larger than 250 GB
> drives but eventually I would run out again.
> If I only had a mother board which supported five 250GB drives I would be
> done.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> PS. Yes, we backup to Tape from the disc backup and the tapes go offsite.

Just a thought seeing as no one else has mentioned it... If you have a high
end CPU + lots of drives, fans, DVD+CD drives + other devices your
power supply may run out of puff. So you might need to or upgrade the
existing one or fit an extra p/s just to power the additional drives to
ensure it all stays stable.

HTH

Ian
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