Question about hard drives (How many can i truely have? ^_^)

Lol I'm defraggin now. I'm about an hour into it. 32% done on a 180 gig drive.

 

LMAO - you and I think alike, I was thinking this very thing, just before I read your post, so you stole my thunder. Anyway, I looked into it, unfortunately A single USB hub can only address up 127 devices - so its not possible to connect any more USB devices than that to a single HUB (though the normal desktop does come with two hubs).

Also, there is a limit to the number of hubs you daisy chain. That is to say, the root hub will request a status from all of its "children hubs" and it will wait a finite amount of time for the "child hub" to respond. It turns out that hubs cascaded down more than six levels, is like to not be able to report back to the root hub in time to report its status. So six levels of cascading is also considered the limit for USB.

LMAO - see, now this is probably the actualy real practicle limit.

 

After you run out of letters you cant have any more drives. I tested this. I had use a Virtual drive program to fill up all remaining drive letters except Z. Then i plugged in my USB 7-in-1 reader because that makes 4 drives. I plugged it in, and only 1 of the 4 drives appeared in My Computer. The rest didn't work and they didn't work again after that for some reason. I ended up reformatting to fix it.

 

" ERROR
0707x076 Windows Drive letter error -
A-Z is already in use.
Please, you don`t need more pr0n now!"

 

I don't have any pr0n.... almost all TV. But I only have 160gb too. And some of it is actually useful stuff. Pirated, but useful

 

I imagine it would work in linux though- given that drives are normally just assigned numbers anyway?

Sam

 

I've got up to drive S: before, but then we ran out of USB ports, and thumb drives etc. to plug into them. Mind you, I think windows always reserves B: for floppy drives, daft legacy thing I assume.

 

Well at one time i did have dual floppys, and windows xp gave the damn 5.25" drive letter B:

 

You can manually assign stuff to B: IIRC

I currently have C-N and S-Z in use. 5 partitions on my main drive, one hotswappable, a 6-in-1 (4 drives), 2 DVD, 8 mapped network drives. So i have A, B, O, P, Q, and R free. I could easily pull it off.

 

My file server has 11 physical hard drives. Y'all forgot to mention the firewire cards and the hard drives you can have on them. also just cus you run out of drive letters doesn't mean you can't have any more drives, all you have to do is make 23 JBOD raid arrays, to my knowledge with a JBOD array you aren't limited to the number of drives you are allowed to use per array. My 200GB HDD takes forever to defrag, i'd hate to see how long a multi-petabyte drive would take to defrag, i would guess my great grandchildren would most likely be watch it pass the halfway mark long after i've been buried.

As for porn, not so much, i got a little, but its mostly tv shows and movies and music.

 

The man does have a point. In theory, you could have 22 Raid arrays on a system so 88 hard drives if you do it the ide/sata way. If you choose to go to SCSI on the other hand... 22x15....