Two drives

I am new to Open Source. To prove it, I am confused about hard drives. I see so many references to multiple hard drives, but manufacturers websites only speak of external hard drives as either storage or back-up devices. All the Open Source information I have read makes me think that an external hard drive in a USB can have a bootable OS on it. Can someone enlighten me?
 
Yes, you can boot from external HDD, IF your bios supports booting from usb.
Same applies to Flash (unless it's U3 flash, which didn't work for me)
 
fbsd1 said:
4 max if not having cd/dvd drive.

Most motherboards that I've looked at recently allow from 4 to 8 internal SATA drives plus 2 IDE internal drives, whether they be hard disk or optical drives. Not sure whence you got your limit of just 4.
 
^ "recently" is your keyword here.
Back in the days of the (P)ATA ( sounds epic :) ), computers usually only had two controllers/cables for optical/hard disks, with a master and a slave for each, i.e. 4 disks.
 
he he he, I can stick (in my new server [which is desktop pc]):
6x SATA300 HDD's
2x SATA600 HDD's
2x IDE HDD's

10x USB HDD's
2x ESATA HDD's

I think that's all (but I might be missing some)
So totally I can stick: 22 HDD's

:D
 
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