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<blockquote data-quote="jb2uk" data-source="post: 60807" data-attributes="member: 18654">hi, i've been using mp for a fair few months now, and since then my hard drive has slowly filled up with movies and tv series encoded with xvid (all legally of course <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ) my htpc is in an antec aria case which has room for 3 hard drives, i have an 80gb ide drive which my os is on (i use my pc as a pc aswell as htpc) and a 300gb sata drive with my movies on, problem is my 300gb is growing fuller and fuller and i could do with some more space, i don't want to put another drive in the case though, its waaay too hot as it is i've looked at external caddies i don't want to use usb2 as the speed of usb2 is not nearly as quick as sata and i'm loathe to spend money on a sata drive to have is held back by its connection. which leaves me three options using a sata caddy using another computer as a file server or nas/sana sata caddy would be the best solution however i only have 3 pci slots, my tv card, my s/pdif output and i have a fan mounted in the third, i don't want to commit myself to using the third slot incase i need to use it for an expansion card in the future (eg a firewire pci card), so i cannot actually connect a caddy to my computer <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />another computer. i can't afford to build another computer and if i did i can't afford to run it 24/7 unfortunately this isn't an optionnas/san well... i just can't afford this optionright after all that heres my question...have you lot any other ideas of how i can i can add a hard drive outside the case?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jb2uk, post: 60807, member: 18654"] hi, i've been using mp for a fair few months now, and since then my hard drive has slowly filled up with movies and tv series encoded with xvid (all legally of course ;) ) my htpc is in an antec aria case which has room for 3 hard drives, i have an 80gb ide drive which my os is on (i use my pc as a pc aswell as htpc) and a 300gb sata drive with my movies on, problem is my 300gb is growing fuller and fuller and i could do with some more space, i don't want to put another drive in the case though, its waaay too hot as it is i've looked at external caddies i don't want to use usb2 as the speed of usb2 is not nearly as quick as sata and i'm loathe to spend money on a sata drive to have is held back by its connection. which leaves me three options using a sata caddy using another computer as a file server or nas/san a sata caddy would be the best solution however i only have 3 pci slots, my tv card, my s/pdif output and i have a fan mounted in the third, i don't want to commit myself to using the third slot incase i need to use it for an expansion card in the future (eg a firewire pci card), so i cannot actually connect a caddy to my computer :( another computer. i can't afford to build another computer and if i did i can't afford to run it 24/7 unfortunately this isn't an option nas/san well... i just can't afford this option right after all that heres my question... have you lot any other ideas of how i can i can add a hard drive outside the case? [/QUOTE]

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