lots of hard drives advice needed please

[jericho]

i have 8 500 gig harddrives and want to find a way of having them all connected to my pc at one time either a case they can be mounted in or another solution , reason being i only have 2 usb ports on my htpc

what are your suggestions please?

[insomniak123]

external hard drives then?

Get one or two mains powered USB hubs and stack them up next to your PC

8 HDD's will draw a lot of power from your mains though, as each will have its own power supply

[jericho]

cheers

[JagoPlasma]

NAS enclosure

[mjn]

Cheap and nasty tower case, and use an external Sata connection.

[johnny70]

here you go you need something like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-PowerVaul...QQcmdZViewItem

[Uridium]

Originally Posted by johnny70

here you go you need something like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-PowerVaul...QQcmdZViewItem

That would be useful if the OP had SCSI disks

NAS enclosure (with SATA) or a cheap tower case with a system board that has enough SATA ports, if not add a couple of couple of PCI SATA cards.

[ducattigezzer]

what i meant was this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/A-PLUS-Acase-X...QQcmdZViewItem

but you get the idea where i'm going with same idea as yours but a all in one package