Reply 20 of 33, by UK_John
Well,I must admit, my PC is a little different. When I built my last PC, I bought the case from a UK Company called Maplin, they are a general PC/Electronics store like Tandy in the U.S. Well, they had a sale on 'hard disk caddies'. Down from £12 ($16) to £5 (($7.50) with the caddie holder free if you bought three caddies. So what I did was installed a HD caddy holder under my DVD drive in a spare slot. I have since bought 6 more, along with cheap 160gb+ drives. I have 9 hard drives with over a Terrabyte of disk space, and I just slide in the disk caddy I want at any one time, turn on the PC, and XP sees it and sets it up for me. This way I can have a application disk for work, DOS games, etc (on a FAT32 disk) on another, and modern RPG's, strategy, sim and shooters each on their own disks. I have a whiteboarsd on the wall where I keep everything up to date.
I suppose the PC, the caddy's and the HD drives cost around £550 all together. And I still have around 300gb of space on my drives! 😀
This means my DVD drive is M, my main disk is partitioned as C and D my SATA is X and my various partitioned caddy disks are labelled T-W (single partitioned disk would be T, double partitioned would be T and U, etc).
This has caused me no problems (touch wood!) and a lot of flexibility, and luckily I play more and more DOS games as I have so few problems with them compared with modern games! Hence my purchase of the Aces of the Deep CD, with it's excellent ring binder 80 page manual and even more excellent on-line multimedia manual! 😀