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Installing 4 HDD into my home PC

Hi guys,
My home PC has a primary 40GB HDD and a 200GB slave, but i want to connect another 2 or 3 HDD to it, how can this be done and i prefer not to have to do any formatting to get this running

Cheers

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mr_crust

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leew thanks for the quick reply, when i mean formatting i dont want to format my current primary and secondary drives, as for my 3 new hdd im happy to format them.

my motherboard has no sata conenctors, only ata.

so on the first ribbon i have 40gb hdd , slave 200gb hd
on the 2nd ribbon i have dvd-rw and a cd-rw

i have one usb hdd , but i prefer to keep them internal. my case can hold 4 hdd's, if not ill get another case to suit. I have no other controllers available , so im guessing i will need this PCI card to do it....do u know what the pci cards are called so i can hunt around for one.

once again thanks for the quick reply

Lee W, MVP

The cards can be really cheap or really expensive or somewhere in between.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010150410+4093+1193512552&Subcategory=410&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=

LARGE list:
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Subcategory.asp?Subcategory=410

There should be NO NEED to reformat your computer.

Note: Unless you want to use RAID, I'd probably avoid the RAID cards. (It's a RAID card if it says RAID in the description, generally).

jamietoner

If you want IDE heres one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102007 they do have cheaper ones but remember you usually get what yah pay for
If you want sata
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816150007
even a card with both sata and ide
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102045

mr_crust

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leew , your the man, thanks so much mate, im gonna have a look at these cards now and hopefully get one in my pc asap.

this should keep me busy for the next wk or 2 :)