Its been a while since i blogged,lot of incidents came and past but nothing amused enough to get into the blog. Here is a crazy thing that we me and @agentsj did last week,simply for fun and to find something...
To find out
1.What will Windows do after all the drive letter get exhausted?
2.Will the SMPS provide with enough power to support this config.?
The test Configuration.
Core i5 661 @ 3.2 Ghz
Intel DH55HC motherboard with six SATA ports.
2*2 GB DDR3 Kingston @ 1066 Mhz
XFX GeForce 9800GT
CoolerMaster GX550 SMPS
CoolerMaster CM 690 II Plus - Asia Pacific Edition
and
4 * 1TB Seagate HDD
1 * 1TB Maxtor HDD
1 * 1TB Samsung HDD
All the HDD runs at 7200 rpm with 32mb cache.
Experiment:
All the six HDD were installed and did the cabling,using up all the SATA ports and the power cables from the SMPS. Powered up the system,the BIOS detected all the drives with a Seagate as the primary. Booting into Windows 7 ultimate proved that the SMPS provides with enough power to run 6 harddisks. Accessing the Explorer it showed all the drive letters(from C to Z;as A and B are reserved for floppy drives) being used up for accommodating all the partition in the various harddisks. Inorder to test our first objective we inserted a pen drive of capacity 8 GB. The explorer did detect the pen drive by displaying the driver installation still it was not displayed on the menu,on accessing the drive manager we could see the drive there but no letter was allocated to it,as it caused the drive to be inaccesible. But if we would disable one HDD partition we could have access the pendrive,but we couldn't jeopardize it for the experiment.
