I ran out of room within my HTPC (Antec Black/silver MicroATX Case w/ 380W PS (NSK2480) to place another hard drive. I filled the 2 slots with HDs and put another HD in the lower 5.25" drive bay on some double-sided tape. A bit ghetto but does the job nicely.
The only other spot available is on the power supply. Not the best spot but any issues?
Also, I ran out of connections to my power supply and SATA. What are my options there for another HD? I disconnected my Blu-Ray drive just to get the hard drives installed but not sure how to make everything work.
Sounds like you need something like a DROBO my friend
But I agree with ILYA depending on how big the PSU is, along with how much power is being drawn from it, it will get hot quick, and add the heat of the hard drive, its not good for either of them. It may be fine for awhile but its possible the added heat could cause one of them to fail.
Honestly I would consider something external like a DROBO or a My Studio II from WD
Pricey but worth it for someone like you IMO
As far as running out of SATA connections
Need a SATA Controller Card for the PCI Slot, along with pigtail connectors off the existing PSU connections in order to get another connection for each connection you pigtail…
Also be sure your PSU can support so many hard drives, as when their all going would cause quite a drain on the unit.
But in all honesty, Id find some sort of external enclosure, or purchase the drobo/My studio 2
Yeah I know. The ones I get are 4.7GB, XBox 360 games are around ~6.7GB and PC games vary anywhere from 1.5GB to 9GB. And then software such as Photoshop, etc.
I also burn a lot to disc and then delete (if it’s not majorly important).
I’m only using 450GB out of 1TB. A single 2TB storage point or drive for me would be way sufficient…and I’m thinking of going to NAS eventually.
A little off topic but what video card is that? How do you connect it to your reciever for A&V?
I picked up a HD4650 with the HDMI but in XP the PSO drivers wouldnt pass audio over the hdmi, but I just (few days ago) installed Win7 and under sounds it showed the hdmi so I hope it will work now.
Seagate 500GB SATA 7200RPM 16MB Cache HD (ST3500641AS)
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 32MB Cache HD (WD20EADS)
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 32MB Cache HD (WD20EADS)
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 32MB Cache HD (WD20EADS)
Pioneer SATA Blu-Ray DVD-ROM/12X DVD±R DVD Burner (BDC-202BK)
AZiO 802.11b/g USB 2.0 Wireless Adapter (AWU254)
VidaBox Premium Wireless Keyboard with Optical Trackball (ACC-BT-KBOTB)
Mine was a spare parts rig.
Some rando P4 motherboard
P4 3.0GHZ
Radeon HD 4650 1GB 128-bit GDDR2 AGP 8X
Patriot 2GB DDR 400
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB
LiteOn DVD R-RW, CD R-RW sata.
APEVIA Aluminum X-MASTER HTPC case
two Scythe SY1225SL12L 120mm "Slipstream
two SilenX IXP-54-14 80mm
Some heatpipe lay down 120mm cpu cooler, only one that fit in the case. max temps are 65c which is good for a cramped case and a old P4!
I was just thinking. How about take apart an old case and get the hard drive mounting setup out of it. Most hold like 3-5+ HD’s. My lian-li one is sick, it have these aluminum sleeves you put the HD in and the side pegs are rubber isolated and they slide into the HD mounting cage and lock right in.
You could stack a bunch in that, then just run your sata and power wires out a grommett/hole in the case. Sleeve the wires and neatly and just have them all external. I am sure this isnt on display and could be just tucked in behind the PC case in the entertainment center.
It would make adding and removeing HD’s alot easier too.
