need bit advice, hard drive, wot wil...

**boogiedan** · April 27th, 2005, 07:14 AM

alrite all
i'll get straight 2 point
my motherboard is a pc chips board bought new about 16months ago
its not a top of the range model but still ok!
got an 80gighd in at min-but need way bigger
been 2 site of mb-still cant find wot size it would take
Basically i'd love 2 put a 200gig in or over
but would my m/b take it
Thanks for any responses guy's

**DigitalJunkie** · April 27th, 2005, 08:04 AM

Most computer today have IDE or ATA Disk Controller Card, you can get IDE or ATA drives. If you have newer SATA card get SATA drives.

If your computer case doesn't have room but you have USB or Firewire ports, you can get external USB or Firewire drives.

**boogiedan** · April 27th, 2005, 08:17 AM

Thanks 4 post mate
so u rekon i cud fit say a 200 or 250gig ide in
Thanks again

**DigitalJunkie** · April 27th, 2005, 08:29 AM

You shouldn't have any problem!

**boogiedan** · April 27th, 2005, 08:51 AM

Thanks again Digital Junkie
i will get anew 1 soon as money rol's in
cheer's mate

**RACKnRAIL** · April 27th, 2005, 09:57 AM

Externals are great. That way it serves as a back up devise as well as storage.

**Krell** · April 27th, 2005, 05:05 PM

I'm a FAN of the Digital Junkie . . . but may I please make a point here, that when you add an SATA card, you are still limited by the IDE bus speed.

Therefore, adding SATA as an ADD ON is of no real benefit.

Motherboards have two IDE Cabled, and each can connect two IDE drives, whether hard drives or CD Rom etc. What I suspect is that you need to see if you need two new CABLES or not!

Open your case, look at the flat ribbon cable, are there any empty connector ends to use? Do you have any spare 12v connectors to power another drive? IDE cables are about $4 per set.

Check this out, and then decide what you need, adding a new drive is EASY PEASY, we can talk you right through it

cheers

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