How many hard drives can you fit in your case, /g/?
Using the bays? 5
Haphazardly throwing them in? Dozens
>>46702901
How do you power them, though? Even SATA power cables with multiple connections are hard as fuck to position for different drives.
1x 3.5
1x 2.5
>>46702939
I don't use that many drives but years ago I did hav e 6+ drives in my system. This was the time of IDE and I didn't even have enough bays for them. I literally had them laying on the bottom of the case stacked on top of each other
>>46702939
just lay them sideways
6 trays can hold at a 3.5 or 2.5
2 trays that can hold a 2.5.
However many my cables will allow for if I start fucking with them, and don't mind lack of care and/or air flow.
5 x SSDs
5 x HDDs
>>46703000
You forgot 5 x ODDs
>>46702731
Stock, 8x3.5" and 2x2.5".
>>46703000
>buying HDDs even though you have 5 SSDs
>>46702731
6x3.5" bays
1x 2.5" SSD slot
3x 5.25" bays
>>46703037
HDDs will still be better for mass storage until the price of large capacity SSDs go down.
>>46703019
5 x FDDs
>>46702731
1 SDD
1 HDD
0 ODD
Computer/case: iMac…
>>46702731
12, Hot Swappable.
Get on my level
>>46702731
I think I have 8 drive bays (full sized, 2.5 just go in an adapter).
6 Mountable Bays, so any combination of 6 HDDs or SSDs.
Could probably fit 4-5 more SSDs anywhere else in the case. Would probably need a SATA expansion card if I wanted that many drives, though.
10 with the standard mounting brackets.
I think I could fit 20 in here with something like the OP pic.
>>46702731
As it stands right now? 4. If i were to switch everything out to 2.5" disks and use 6x2.5" drive bays, I could theoretically cram 54 drives inside.
3 3.5" ones
6 2.5" ones using 3 Scythe bay rafters
A lot more using 5.25" to 2.5" bays. 5.25" bay is useless anyway.
On a sidenote: why do people buy 3.5" drives? noisy, huge, heavy, not much cheaper than 2.5" drives, not much faster than 7200 rpm 2.5" drive.
>>46702974
How to manage those awful IDE cables though
The real question is how many cases can you fit in your rack?
Mini master race
>>46702731
i've got 5 hdds, 1 ssd, and 2 dvd-rw drives in there atm
I have an SSD basket that holds like 5 or 6 idk, and then 2 HDD slots at the bottom of my case, tho could easily mod other areas to fit more if needed. No need tho since I have 2 SSDs and 1 HDD.
Corsair Air 540 btw.
>>46702731
Originally two, now 6.
>>46704216
>not much cheaper than 2.5" drives
3.5" is much cheaper for consumers. Sure, you can fit two 2.5" drives in the space of a single 3.5", but it's not like even datacenters use 2.5" drives.
>7200RPM sorted by cost per GB
http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#t=7200&f=3,2&sort=a7
3.5" starts at $0.032 and 2.5" starts at $0.069, that's more than twice as expensive.
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Hey guys which is the best HDD suitable to storing all the films I download? WD greens or reds or a Hitatchi deskstar?
The WD greens are slow so are reds suitable to use every now and then? The blacks cost $$$.
>>46704216
Manage? You can't manage that. Airflow was terrible and the heat built up pretty quick. But I had hundreds of gigs which was rare at the time.
>>46704503
WD Blues are great, I have one in an old server of mine. Reds would work well too
>Streacom
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