Soo i want to add a 3rd hard drive to my system. I have my original at 80Gigs, at master, and my secondary slave/storage at 160Gigs. i wana add another Storage Hard disk 300Gigs. but i there are no more slave plugs left. how can i do this.
If you only have one Optical drive on the Secondary IDE port, you can use it's slave connector. If you don't have any free, you could either use SATA if you have it or purchase a separate IDE controller card to run the new drive. Either way, it's very simple to do.
would one of these things be easier also for even more future upgradability NETGEAR - Storage Central
Depends on what way you want to go. If you want more internal capacity, mega's suggestion is the way to go. The Netgear solution you linked does not include the price of the drives and runs $60-100. An internal 2-port ATA or SATA card can run as little as $15 online. Installing an add-in card is not complicated, and if you're running Windows 2000/XP, it should recognize it without you having to install any drivers. If you want to share your files, the Netgear Z-NAS might be the way to go if you don't want to share off your PC, or have files available and still shut your system down. Personally, the NAS is probably overkill for you, unless you don't have extra spaces for hard drives in your case.
I have one more space left in my computer where my second HD is in. but yea i might go with the internat 2port ata/sata for now, and keep the netgear network addition in mind for future upgrades. neways thanks everyone
