Looking for a pc that can handle at least 4 disk drives

[Brandon2016]

I am looking at building a custom pc for a friend, and they say they are looking for at least 4 disk drives. If anyone has any recommendations for motherboards, cases, etc for this build, they would be greatly appreciated.

 

[greens]

Any motherboard will offer at least 4 SATA slots, no problem there.

We need a lot more information in order to suggest a build. What is it for? Why 4 disks?

 

[basroil]

Just about any b150, h170, or z170 board can handle it, and most h110 boards as well (and similar for older chips too). Just make sure the PSU and case have the ports and space and motherboard shouldn't be an issue

 

[thx1138v2]

If any of these are older PATA/IDE drives you'll have to get an older motherboard. There are quite a few that support PATA/IDE and SATA on the same motherboard but they were usually available during the period of transition from PATA to SATA.

One of my machines has 1 PATA/IDE port that will handle 2 IDE drives and 6 SATA II (3Gb/s) ports. It's an ASUS M4A78LT-M LE.

All modern motherboards support a minimum of 4 SATA III (6Gb/s) drives. You might have a problem locating anything with PATA/IDE and SATA III drives on the same board but if you need it you can find PATA to SATA converters that plug in between the motherboard and the drive.

 

[greens]

PLENTY of modern motherboards have legacy ports.

My 990fx board has legacy IDE and even Floppy. Granted it isn't brand new, but legacy support isn't really an issue if you look

 

[Brandon2016]

Any motherboard will offer at least 4 SATA slots, no problem there.

We need a lot more information in order to suggest a build. What is it for? Why 4 disks?

My friend is looking to do a lot of cd and dvd burning, and has requested at least 4 optical drives. I'm just here to put together the build, but 8 gigs of ram and a few terabytes of hdd space coupled with a boot ssd is also a necessity for this build. Hope this helps.

 

[basroil]

Any motherboard will offer at least 4 SATA slots, no problem there.

We need a lot more information in order to suggest a build. What is it for? Why 4 disks?

My friend is looking to do a lot of cd and dvd burning, and has requested at least 4 optical drives. I'm just here to put together the build, but 8 gigs of ram and a few terabytes of hdd space coupled with a boot ssd is also a necessity for this build. Hope this helps.

If you mean DVD/CD duplication, you're much better off with a dedicated duplicator.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827467003&cm_re=dvd_duplicator-_-27-467-003-_-Product <-- Really, really cheap!

 

[Brandon2016]

Any motherboard will offer at least 4 SATA slots, no problem there.

We need a lot more information in order to suggest a build. What is it for? Why 4 disks?

My friend is looking to do a lot of cd and dvd burning, and has requested at least 4 optical drives. I'm just here to put together the build, but 8 gigs of ram and a few terabytes of hdd space coupled with a boot ssd is also a necessity for this build. Hope this helps.

If you mean DVD/CD duplication, you're much better off with a dedicated duplicator.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827467003&cm_re=dvd_duplicator-_-27-467-003-_-Product <-- Really, really cheap!

I'll definitely look into this, thank you!