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I don't see why not. You should be limited only by the number of letters in the alphabet(drive A: to drive Z:) and the output of your power supply unit.

 

When I can afford it I plan to have a computer with a few terabytes in it strictly for storing music, TV shows and movies on it. My own television, no commercials, plays what I like all the time.

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It essentially depends on just how you want to configure things.

 

Most cases limit you to 4 or 6.

 

Each IDE controller can drive 2 drives (master/slave) and most motherboards and add on controller cards come with 2 IDE controllers for a total of 4 drives per motherboard or controller.

 

I believe that SCSI allows thirty drives per bus.

External firewire/USB drives could likely have 20 or 30 more.

 

Somehow I doubt if you really want THAT much storage!

Backing it all up gets to be an issue even with a single 300Gb drive, at some point you will spend all of your time doing backups.

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How many hard drives can you run on a computer... I have 3 right now, two internal, one usb hard drives. Can I put another external on it? Plan on buying 1tb hard drive.

 

Why do you need so much space? ive got a 500 gig and i have only used one third of it..

 

oh and i got an USB LanDisk wich holds up to 500 gig too, it connects all the PCs in my house together. (my familys and my one.)

 

 

 

(my own is best in every way :d)

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LOl, i remember seeing this episode of Arby n the chief, Master chief was downloading a 1000 gig porn file. arbiter was like "but thats like porn for a month" and the camera is towards Cheif wich was standing beside a vasaline bottle LOL!

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