Have I been mugged off?

[sweetcheeks69]

Howdy folks,

I have a quick question for you all. I have been planning for quite some time now to upgrade the amount of storage space I have on my home PC. Previously, I had hoped to go for an internal hard drive, however, my girlfriend has now bought a laptop with a crap amount of memory space, so I thought about an external drive (by USB 2.0) so she can use it too... (I know, visions of shoes on JPGs filling it up...)

One of the lads I know who builds PCs as a hobby has said that my motherboard may only support up to a certain limit... Is he having me on? If not, how can I find out what the limit is?

Appreciate any help you can give

 

[Bobo]

There is no such thing as a motherboard limiting the amount of external space that a laptop can have. What he may have been talking about is the amount of USB ports that you have available, you might need to buy a hub.

 

[sweetcheeks69]

Thanks for getting back so quickly.

It's not just the laptop that will be using it... My desktop has plenty of ports available and just wanted to double check this...

 

[Maddhatter]

for a USB HD you only need 1 port per computer...you mentioned "memory space" in your first post that may also be what your friend is talking about most motherboards support only 2 - 4 ram slots (i don't think this is what you meant tho)