# How many hard drives can you have in one computer

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 18, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hard-drives-can-you-have-in-one-computer/260380 "2004-08-18T13:09:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hard-drives-can-you-have-in-one-computer/260380/21 "2004-08-20T20:49:56Z")

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you are a sick, sick man 😃

Who’s running 119 USB devices?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hard-drives-can-you-have-in-one-computer/260380/22 "2004-08-20T21:04:59Z")

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> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> you are a sick, sick man 😃
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> Who’s running 119 USB devices?

Batman.

That’s how he’s always prepared.

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**Author:** ![Alan\_E\_Sheets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Alan\_E\_Sheets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_E_Sheets)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hard-drives-can-you-have-in-one-computer/260380/23 "2004-08-20T21:48:47Z")

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My students say that a lot. Especially after I give them their final in Advanced Operations:

Give them a 486/33 laptop, 8 meg, 125mb drive preloaded with MS-DOS 6x. I/O is limited to serial, parallel, kb, and vga (no floppy, cd, nic, usb, irda, pcmcia, modem, etc). Give them a pile of db- and db25 connectors, pins, wire, and a current-model desktop that has access to the Internet. The school’s software library is also available. The school’s parts pile is also available (except that there are no laptop-exclusive parts in the pile). Students have 5 days to get a stable platform with Windows 9x, a powerpoint viewer, and a 15 page powerpoint presentation running well enough for one of the med students down the hall to successfully use.

[QUOTE=Shalmanese]  
you are a sick, sick man 😃  
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