connecting two external hard drive

sunky · 6 Feb 2006 at 16:08

is it okay to connect two external ghard drive at the same time to ya pc

just wondering cos i gat loads of files in both and i need to use them at thesame time over a long time, *** the long time affect the effectiveness of these hard drive??

Berserker · 6 Feb 2006 at 16:23

USB, yes. In fact, you can probably connect up to 26 if you want (one for each drive letter A-Z).

Skilldibop · 6 Feb 2006 at 17:26

in theory you can daisy chain 127 devices on your USB bus, which includes 127 HDDs, tho you'd need some sort of Raid array to condense them into *24* letters (not 26 cos you can't have C or A, sometimes not B either)

Berserker · 6 Feb 2006 at 18:28

You can have C if you boot from USB. There are ways to get A and B as well.

127 HDDs isn't possible with a single USB port - you'd need some hubs.

Skilldibop · 7 Feb 2006 at 09:37

Berserker said:
You can have C if you boot from USB. There are ways to get A and B as well.

127 HDDs isn't possible with a single USB port - you'd need some hubs.

I said "USB bus" not port. Although that's still wrong, i meant Root controller but yeah common sense says you can't plug 127 plugs in 1 hole without some hubs...

sunky · 7 Feb 2006 at 17:44

uuhnnnnnnnnmmmm!!!!!
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