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Old 11-07-2007, 03:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Maximum # Of Drives?

Ok, i just wanna know what's the absolute max i can put in here, pata and sata cobined. the MB is MSI P6N SLI Platinum nForce 650i SLI Socket 775 1333MHz DDR2-800, and amount of connections is below.

n-Board IDE

• An IDE controller on the NVIDIA® nForce430i chipset provides IDE
HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices.




On-Board SATA

• nForce 430i supports 4 SATA II ports (SATA 1 to 4).
- Transfer rate is up to 300 MB/s.
- 1 eSATA port by Sil3531 (back panel)
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Re: Maximum # Of Drives?

you can install four IDE drives / this includes cd-rom drives


and four sata "stand alone" hard drives



four drives for raid



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