P4 Motherboards that support more than 4 IDE HDD's

[Marge]

I have a number of 20Gb & 40Gb drives & would like to make use of them
in the main home pc for storing photo's, videos, music etc in one
place.

Anyone suggest any reasonable options?

 

[John Weiss]

I have a number of 20Gb & 40Gb drives & would like to make use of them
in the main home pc for storing photo's, videos, music etc in one
place.

Anyone suggest any reasonable options?

An add-in PCI card would work for that:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&Order=PRICE&srchInDesc=

There are cheaper ones if you don't need so many ports. Remember, 1 port
supports 2 HDs.

 

[Dave]

I have a number of 20Gb & 40Gb drives & would like to make use of them
in the main home pc for storing photo's, videos, music etc in one
place.

Anyone suggest any reasonable options?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124001
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119009
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812104045

You will need some combination of the above, plus any P4 motherboard you
choose. -Dave

 

[Marge]

An ASUS P4P800 Deluxe could handle up to 8 IDE drives, and two SATA drives.
Its a couple years old.  Socket 478 P4

Newer 775 boards, youd need to add a couple of Promise EIDE controllers or
something like that

With the ability to buy a 500GB IDE drive for $60 online, why bother with
those 40GB drives?

Thanks Dave,John & GMAN,

I will look out for cheap PCI cards & ASUS P4P800 on ebay etc.
GMAN.. I did think myself about the falling prices & higher disk size
but I hate throwing working stuff away & if I can get the PCI cards
cheap enough it would serve my needs.