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more than two hard drives

hello there,
I have this motherboard
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=4
and I have two hard drives already and a DVD and CD room so
I cant connect other hard drive!! is it possible to have more than 2 ?
thanks
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Sure, you can have as many as you can fit in your case and provide power for.

... or you can use external USB drives if you need even more.   (The computer I'm typing this on has 6 hard drives => 4 in the case; 2 outside the case)

You have 2 IDE connections; so you can have 4 IDE devices; and you have 4 SATA connectors, so you can also have 4 SATA devices.

I assume your optical drives are connected to one of the IDE channels.   If this is correct, you can connect up to SIX hard drives -- 2 IDE drives, and 4 SATA drives.
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which hard drives are better SATA or IDE??
never seen a SATA drive!
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