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Sticking in a 3rd HD
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| Dmatrox |
How do i go about pluggin in a 3rd HD? Ive got 2, 120GB HD's inside right now, but i want to put in a 40GB hard drive. The only problem is i have two occupying CD drives, making a total of 4 drives in the computer (2HD, 2CD).
Is there a possibility of putting in another hard drive or am i out of luck? :conf:
Thanks:D |
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| moncster |
| Not sure, but I can say that if all goes wrong, you can still get a PCI IDE adaptor. |
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| Galapidate |
| You can buy an external hard drive that you plug into a USB port on the PC. |
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| arj1o1 |
| or buy a RAID card |
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| jonsimmonds |
| Unless your motherboard has onboard raid, you will need to get a pci IDE or RAID adapter, though for just one additional harddrive theres no need to get a RAID adapter. a external USB drive is a alternative, only if your motherboard supports USB 2, if its only USB1 then the data trasfer rates will be slow. |
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| MrSquirrel |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonsimmonds
Unless your motherboard has onboard raid, you will need to get a pci IDE or RAID adapter, though for just one additional harddrive theres no need to get a RAID adapter. a external USB drive is a alternative, only if your motherboard supports USB 2, if its only USB1 then the data trasfer rates will be slow. |
Or an external FireWire case is an option if you have ports. Some older PC's had FireWire but not USB2.
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| moncster |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonsimmonds
Unless your motherboard has onboard raid, you will need to get a pci IDE or RAID adapter, though for just one additional harddrive theres no need to get a RAID adapter. a external USB drive is a alternative, only if your motherboard supports USB 2, if its only USB1 then the data trasfer rates will be slow. |
Price quotes on usb 2.0 cards |
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| Dmatrox |
| Thanks for the suggestions. I have USB2 and a firewire card but im not planning to put in the 40GB HD because its really loud compared to my 2 existing HD's inside. |
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| walid114 |
| You can plug as many HDs as u want but u need an IDE card to do so, buy it and just plug it abd thats it :) |
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