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Internal harddrives.

Sephiroth_dude · 2009-11-05 15:51:44

Hi Was thinking of buying a second internal harddrive,I was just wondering if they were easy to install?Oh and whats the difference between a SATA harddrive and a IDE one?

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05-11-2009 4:51pm

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Hi
Was thinking of buying a second internal harddrive,I was just wondering if they were easy to install?Oh and whats the difference between a SATA harddrive and a IDE one?

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#2 05-11-2009 4:54pm
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Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

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Was thinking of buying a second internal harddrive,I was just wondering if they were easy to install?

Usually very easy, more so with SATA these days. Should just be a matter of screwing it into the case, plug in power and data cable and you're free to format and use. Just be sure to check connector/power cable availability in your case and whether you need SATA or older IDE drives.

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#3 05-11-2009 4:58pm
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Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Hi
Was thinking of buying a second internal harddrive,I was just wondering if they were easy to install?

They are very easy to install,provided your power supply has the correct connections and your motherboard has enough ports to add another connection.

You will also need a spare slot in your drive cage (where your first drive is)

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#4 05-11-2009 5:00pm
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WESTERN DIGITAL
Description:HD Caviar SE/160GB SATA II 7200rpm 8MB,thats the one I have should I just buy that one again?also is into the motherboard or the power supply I plug it into?

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#5 05-11-2009 5:04pm
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Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

WESTERN DIGITAL
Description:HD Caviar SE/160GB SATA II 7200rpm 8MB,thats the one I have should I just buy that one again?also is into the motherboard or the power supply I plug it into?

You need to make sure you have the space for it first. Check whether your PSU has the needed connector free, that your mobo has an additional SATA port free and your case has a mount for the drive itself.

It plugs into both. A power cable from the PSU goes into the SATA power socket on the HDD, and then the data cable from HDD to Mobo. This will show you what to look for.

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#6 05-11-2009 5:32pm
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your leads will be different but have a look at this

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#7 05-11-2009 6:05pm
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slave1 wrote: »

your leads will be different but have a look at this

actually this is a wee bit clearer about the whole thing (was in the related links somewhere):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbK2DrPFwSY

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#8 05-11-2009 8:05pm
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Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

WESTERN DIGITAL
Description:HD Caviar SE/160GB SATA II 7200rpm 8MB,thats the one I have should I just buy that one again?also is into the motherboard or the power supply I plug it into?

Id imagine that for the same price that was when you bought it you could get one alot bigger nowadays. Like the 500gb ones if your looking for one under 50 euro, if your looking for alot more space say 1tb you can get the samsung F3 for under 70 euro.

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#9 06-11-2009 1:56am
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Having watched that youtube clip it seems easy enough.

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#10 08-11-2009 10:03pm
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What do ye make of this hardrive?

http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfullat.asp?productcode=MME2752387#spec

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#11 09-11-2009 5:05pm
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I wouldnt go with go with maxter if i was you.

have a look at the samsung F3 1TB

you can get it delivered from ebuyer for 75euro

i think this is the fastest hdd on the market at the moment, its cheap too

western digital are also good

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#12 09-11-2009 6:16pm
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This Samsung HDD is a hell of alot better, amazingly fast and probably the most reliable hard drive going, with a proven track record.

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=491821

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#13 09-11-2009 6:20pm
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Griffin87 wrote: »

I wouldnt go with go with maxter if i was you.

Pffff, it'll be grand!

But this is a better price
http://www.onestoppcshop.ie/products.asp?recnumber=24541649
€7.50 next day delivery

Or you can get this 1tb seagate for less than 70 with next day delivery
http://www.onestoppcshop.ie/products.asp?recnumber=24542930

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#14 11-12-2009 12:11pm
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Well I ordered this one

http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfull.asp?productcode=MME2752427

What do ye think?

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#15 11-12-2009 12:27pm
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Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Well I ordered this one

http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfull.asp?productcode=MME2752427

What do ye think?

They're pretty much all the same for normal users as long as you don't fill them by more than 80%. Don't know why you bothered not going for a full terrabyte considering the cost difference is so low

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#16 20-12-2009 10:35pm
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The new harddrive arrived last wednesday,me and my brother tryed installing it last thursday night but we could'nt get it to show in my computer and when he went into the bios it was'nt showing up at first until he realised he probbly had it in the wrong motherboard connection,so he tryed it in a few different connections and eventually it showed up on the bios but it was still not showing up in my computer,anyone any ideas as to why this is?

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#17 20-12-2009 10:54pm
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You need to mark it active and create a partition on it, (You need an admin account for this) Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > In the lower window you should see the list of hard drives on your machine, right click the new one and create a partition on it then format it, if it still doesn't show up then you can assign a letter to it.

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#18 20-12-2009 10:58pm
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Thanks Ill try that,Is it the same procedure for vista?

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#19 20-12-2009 11:06pm
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Pretty sure it is, have dumped Vista for Ubuntu long ago, had to rummage for a Windoze machine to get the screen capture in my post.

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If you are still having probs then PM me as I do PC repairs for a living and can do this one for you if you like.

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#20 20-12-2009 11:12pm
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MunsterCycling wrote: »

Pretty sure it is, have dumped Vista for Ubuntu long ago, had to rummage for a Windoze machine to get the screen capture in my post.

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If you are still having probs then PM me as I do PC repairs for a living and can do this one for you if you like.

Will do! My brother said he'd give it another bash tomorrow.

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#21 21-12-2009 4:15am
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I'm a bit worried as you never mentioned that you connected the power cable to the hard-drive...

Did you?

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#22 21-12-2009 12:35pm
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Yes I did

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