How many Hard Drives Slot will my new Sony PC have ?

[kamaran]

This is the new PC I have just ordered:

http://www.laptopsetc.co.uk/product.asp?dept%5Fid=28&sku=490

I think it has 2 slots for hard drives, but after some advice I'd like to get 3 Hard drives in there and setup with Raid1.

Does anyone actually know how many hard drives slots it has from experience?

If it has 2 is there anything I can do ? (an internal case mod) or something..

[csuzw]

Given its a modern PC I would be surprised if it doesn't use SATA - in that case you will probably have 2 or 4 connectors. If it is using IDE then your 2 optical drives will be using 2 of the 4 slots.

You can get PCI cards with additional IDE connectors and I'm sure you can get cards with SATA connectors.

I'm not sure how many motherboards support RAID 0+1 (which seems to be what you are referring to as you talk about 3 drives). RAID 0 and RAID 1 use paired drives.

[kamaran]

I know it doesnt do SATA

I would need to buy a RAID1 card but am concerned about the additional hard drive(s) fitting into the case ?

[csuzw]

you will almost certainly have room - you usually get at least 3 internal 3.5" slots. Then again this is a Sony PC and is probably as non standard as PCs come.

[kamaran]

my old gateway PC only had 2 places, well 2 where I could screw the drives into place. If thats the case here (excuse the pun) is there anything I can do to accomodate a third ?

[Number45]

RAID 0 and RAID 1 use paired drives.

RAID0 stripes across multiple drives I believe, it's just RAID1 that requires an even amount of disks.

If you wanted to include more than the two disks, there's the possibility you could use an external drive, or maybe replace one of the optical drives? You'd need to make sure that the internal infrastructure supported what you're looking for though. Your best bet is to contact the company doing the selling and ask them if what you want to do is possible.

[kamaran]

I found out its 3 slots from Sony - phew