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The difficulty lays in that you can only hook up 4 (E)ide devices One master and one slave per cable. so your hard drives would take up both ide connectors on your motherboard and leave you no way to hook up the optical drives.

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For one thing, it'd be so expensive it wouldn't be a "low-end system." For another, cheaper computer usually use a microATX case, which will probably not have enough bays to hold that many drives.

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First of all because that system is not designed for it.

Most computers aren't able to handle that.

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Why would it be difficult to install four hard drives in a single system?

It could be difficult if there are not enough empty drive bays or if you do not have a large enough power supply. If you have the space and sufficient power than there is no reason for it to be difficult.


Why would it be a difficult to install four hard drives one CD-ROM drive and one DVDdrive in a single low-end system?

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