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sata or ide

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    #2
    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Available devices

    Serial ATA drives (up to 2), floppy drive, USB memory devices, CD drive, CD-RW drive, DVD drive, DVD-RW drive, DVD and CD-RW combo drive, and media reader

    ^^


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    Moon54
    Registered Users Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Moon54


    Yeah, definitely SATA, I just fixed one last week, :)


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    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    It'll most likeely have both sata ports used up already by the DVD drive and existing HDD, so you'll have to replace the HDD rather than adding another...
    Might as well just open her up and check to be on the safe side


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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    tman wrote: »
    It'll most likeely have both sata ports used up already by the DVD drive and existing HDD, so you'll have to replace the HDD rather than adding another...
    Might as well just open her up and check to be on the safe side

    The DVD appears to be IDE looking at the manual so I think it is ok, no harm in checking though to be sure as you say.

    http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3100/en/sm/parts0.htm#wp1056445


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    bonkers
    Registered Users Posts: 815 ✭✭✭bonkers


    thanks lads

    thinking of getting this
    http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?name=st32000542as-bcuda-lp-sata-2tb-hd&vgnextoid=1f70e5daa90b0210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD&locale=en-US


    do they generally come with all the needed cables or do i just as i think i haev done before use the cables in the tower itself..


    also wondering can this computer take more ram?


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    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Drives don't come with cables (unless you get a retail boxed unit, but most are just OEM)
    There won't be any spare data cables inside the PC if you're thinking of adding the drive, so you'll have to buy one, but you should be sorted for power cables (once again, open it up to be sure rather than taking our word... It'll take all of 2 minutes!)
    That drive will be quite slow if you're of using it as the boot drive btw, but will do fine for just storing data... A 7200rpm Spinpoint F3 would be a better buy if you're going to be replacing the current drive.

    Check how many free slots for ram you have while you're opening it


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