i have a new HP laptop. It is 1.83 mhz athalon 64. I want to add an external drive. I assume that usb is the easiest method. however, new egg is asking me things like SATA and IEEE and 3934a or b and I dont know what these are or if i have them. is this a different connection on the laptop or is it a version of USB or is it important?!? I just need a good 60-120 gig hard drive external. HELP!
2006-10-19 14:32:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
SATA and Ultra ATA refer to internal drives. When checkin to buy an external drive concern yourself only with USB and FIREWIRE drives. You can buy and internal(SATA and Ultra ATA) drive and a drive houseing but the housing will still have a way to hook the drive up via USB or FIREWIRE.
2006-10-19 14:36:28 · answer #1 · answered by AtOneWithNature 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATA and IEE1394 Firewire are types of cables that is used in hard drives,digicams, etc.... It depends on which external plugs or outlets that your laptop has. Your laptop could have a USB plug or a Firewire IEE1394 plug.. It really depends on that situation. To me having a Firewire is faster than USB ofcourse. But if you have a firewire IEE1394 external plug in laptop. SO if not? Just use the USB 2.0 that is fast enough and buy a Seagate external Hardrive that is better. That solves your question... don't be confused about these cable things.... Have a good one... and back up all your files when you got your external HDD.....
2006-10-19 14:46:15 · answer #2 · answered by gorzjec 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
External Hard drives are either connected by usb 2.0 or firewire 1394.
2006-10-19 14:38:09 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bay the drive will be contained in should be of little consequence. The USB connector will work. If it is an older Laptop, it will likely be usb 1.0, newer ones have the IEEE (AKA:FIREWIRE) get the IDE bay, with a USB connector. Cheapest and biggest bang for the buck in most cases/
2006-10-19 14:37:07 · answer #4 · answered by jinx4swag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Type N82E16822101023 in the search box on newegg and there will be a drive that should work just fine for you. It is cheap and you should be able to just plug it in and go without having to worry about assembling it or buying anything else.
2006-10-19 14:41:58 · answer #5 · answered by Paul 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not able to solve your problem now .But I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. it will be useful to you. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
2006-10-22 23:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by blsruthi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The capacity of a drive shouldn't cause a computer to crash.
2016-03-18 22:01:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋