Connect Multiple Hard Drives !!

[ramakanta]

I want to connect multiple hard drives !! Is there any some kind of 'stack' or some such 'thing' for this purpose? I am thinking about connecting 8(eight) hard drives(1 TB each) at the same time(all the hard drives in one case) means I want the hard drives all in the same case/stack . I want to connect them via the USB port or would I need to connect the 'stack' directly to the motherboard? Would this work and is it possible, and how would I do it?
Thank you.

 

[shivakanth.sujit]

What type of HDDs are they?? If they are internal then you can attach only to the motherboard unless you have a SATA to USB convertor. Please post you motherboards model and make. I dont think there are 8 headers in a motherboard, hence you will have to connect a few to the motherboard and a few to the usb ports.

Shiva

 

[avinandan012]

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

is this for professional usage or home storage?

if professional then better buy a RAID card

 

[topgear]

@ OP - best for you is to get a NAS box but what you can also use a HDD enclosure or else get a pc case with plenty of HDD bays and make a nas box of your own using cheap cpu+mobo and other components.

 

[ramakanta]

What type of HDDs are they?? If they are internal then you can attach only to the motherboard unless you have a SATA to USB convertor. Please post you motherboards model and make. I dont think there are 8 headers in a motherboard, hence you will have to connect a few to the motherboard and a few to the usb ports.

Shiva

6 Seagate , 2 WD . all are SATA port .
my mother board DualCore Intel Pentium E2180, 2000 MHz, (Intel- D945GCNL)

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

is this for professional usage or home storage?

if professional then better buy a RAID card

used for professional but my cabinet has no space to keep them.

 

[Gollum]

first of, your OS will not support 8tb. Install windows server OS.

 

[ramakanta]

@ OP - best for you is to get a NAS box but what you can also use a HDD enclosure or else get a pc case with plenty of HDD bays and make a nas box of your own using cheap cpu+mobo and other components.

please give me some tutorial with details ,how to make a NAS box my own ?? !!

 

[shivakanth.sujit]

Turn an Old Computer Into a Do-Anything Home Server with FreeNAS 8. .

A very good guide. I used it to make a NAS out of an old computer .

If you didn't have an old computer then follow the link below to make a home server with new parts.

How Can I Build a Quiet, Low-Powered Home File Server?

Shiva

 

[ramakanta]

how to connect four Hard disk(IDE) in parallel and then convert it to USB ? is possible ??