I am thinking of buying a 400gb internal hard drive and fitting it to my desktop, are there any cables i need or anything i need to install? A computer technician i know came round recently he told me my computer should easily have enough power to run 2-3 hard drives, at the moment there is just a 300gb hard drive. Do my two hard drives have to be the same type? My current 300gb is sata. I haven't acutally looked properly how its plugged in, but it looks simple.
2006-12-05 02:50:44 · 6 answers · asked by jewellui 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Looking at the place where my HD is, it appears to have 2 more slots for it.
2006-12-05 03:05:43 · update #1
Here are some good guidelines for you :
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/sata_install_tshoot.html
(find out what specific type of drive you have first ... make sure the new one is at least as fast & as good a performer)
regards,
Philip T
2006-12-05 02:58:29 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sata is the best however only one drive per channel. That means no jumper setup just plug and play.
So you need an open port on the motherboard, a sata cable, a sata power cable, a hard drive, a mounting point, and 4 hard drive screws.
And a touch of common sense. It is really simple trust me I've done it many times. The first thing ot check is to make sure that you have an open spot on your motherboard for a Sata.
If not you may have to use an IDE, slower and yes jumpers.
This means if you have 1 cd drive you can set the hard drive as the master and the Cd as the slave or a second cable and hard drive as master.
The Bad news there are generally either 2,4 or 6 sata cables on a motherboard. when there are 2 sata plugs there are not necessarily 2 IDE plugs.
Meaning your computer may not support more than 2 cd drive's and 2 hard drives.
2006-12-05 03:01:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-14 01:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-05 03:33:26 · answer #4 · answered by D G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right all external harddrives have a usb prot now get a usb port wire standard one and conect it to a usb outlet
2006-12-05 03:10:06 · answer #5 · answered by alan913908 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as the new one is SATA you should be fine.
2006-12-05 13:41:50 · answer #6 · answered by gntolng 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋