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bigsaucybob

bigsaucybob

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I want to get a second hard drive to store movies and music and stuff like that. Is there anything that i have to get to add a second hard drive and i see everyone talking about this SATA and ATA and i dont have a clue wat that is. So can someone please explain to me wat i need to add a second hard drive and can u give me any reccomendations on one over 100gb's for cheap cause i have found some good prices.

Thnaks
 
It's hard to tell if you'd have SATA from your specs(I don't know Dell's too well) but you will have IDE. Besides, for storage, there probably won't be a noticable difference either way...

Anyways, I'd go with some Seagate if I were upgrading my drives. From what I've found, Western Digital's tend to be the fastest, Seagates tend to be the most reliable. I currently have an external 80G Segate that I got used(it was part of a RAID in a video computer) then used it in my main system for about 6 months, then switched it to this case for my new computer. I have yet to have any problems out of it, and I've even dropped it once while it was spinning!

Now, all drives can have their lemons. I've gone though about 6 Maxtor 30G and 40G drives! They just keep failing(but they did replace them) Obviously, I stay away from them now, but some people like them. Your choice...
 
i am probably gonna go with a seagate or western digital, i found a good one on zipzoomfly.com. But is there anyway to tell if i have SATA like with cpu-z or do i have to look inside myself?

I found this one for a good price but its ATA and i dont know if that wat i have
 
its a skinny black one with a blue cable goin directly to the mobo. So that is ATA and where would i plug in my second hard drive, i know where to put it but i dont know where the cables would go. Do all mobos support 2 hard drives or does that not matter?
 
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