Dumb Q -> With SATA, can I put in 4 optical drives?

[AndyM]

I know that with IDE youre pretty much stuck with 2 off the motherboard, but with SATA optical drives can you load up your machine with say 4 drives? I'm really lazy and dont want to swap game disks all the time

 

[drizzt81]

you can connect 4 PATA optical drives to 2 PATA controller ports, for all I know. With SATA you can have n, where n = number of SATA ports that support optical drives, optical drives.

I would recommend that you consider some virtual drive software, like Alcohol 52%, de(a)mon tools or similar.

 

[underdone]

I know that with IDE youre pretty much stuck with 2 off the motherboard, but with SATA optical drives can you load up your machine with say 4 drives? I'm really lazy and dont want to swap game disks all the time

I'm equally lazy, but I just used game exe's that don't require a cd. I'm pretty sure that if you own the game legally you can do this. If this is against the rules of the forum, please let me know and i'll edit this.

 

[Falls Included]

yeah, i use no-cd cracks or daemon tools

 

[Tigerbiten]

I'm really lazy and dont want to swap game disks all the time

Same here.
I just use 4 opticals drives on my 2 IDE ports & 4 SATAHDD on my 4 SATA ports.
If I want to add more drives I'll just put my SCSI card back in, that will let me add upto another 30 drives as need.

Luck .......