I am using an Adaptec 29160 controller with ultra 160 SCSI drives. With it I can connect up to 14 drives. As it is now I have 8 SCSI drives and one SATA. I recently added three more ultra 160 drives. However they were not recognized when I booted up. Nine was apparently the maximum number the board - an ASUS P5Q3 deluxe with wi-fi - would recognize. I was able to access them when I got to windows. But that is a pain. Am I just too out of date here or is there some current board that will support this number of drives?
Are there any boards that will recognize 12 or more hard dricves
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ronintexas
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I would assume your primary OS drive is the SATA drive, and the "second" boot device would be set to the Adaptec controller. You should be able to theoretically connect 6 drives to your mobo (SATA drives only), and up to 15 SCSI drives with your controller. I am kind of lost as to why you would utilize this card - as it transfers data at only 140Mb/s - as compared to 6Gb/s for your SATA drives (the SATA drives would be about 45 times faster).
Usually, unless you have a big file server (and then you would have a RAID controller), it wouldn't be economical to utilize those drives....
Usually, unless you have a big file server (and then you would have a RAID controller), it wouldn't be economical to utilize those drives....
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