Second harddrive.

[g4m3rof1337]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144122

is this a good one?
ill have linux, unbuntu on it.


thanks

 

[Jet]

Is the hard drive you have now IDE or SATA?

How about this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822135106

Or for a bit extra, you can get a 160GB one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144415

 

[g4m3rof1337]

my hdd now, is using a .... sata and a power supply connector

thanks jet

i might get the 160gb, but again itll be linux, will i need 160?

 

[diduknowthat]

my hdd now, is using a .... sata and a power supply connector

thanks jet

i might get the 160gb, but again itll be linux, will i need 160?

what's the ....? And your motherboard has one than 1 SATA header, and your powersupply should have more than 1 SATA power connector (unless it's a really REALLY cheap one).

And it depends on what you want to do on linux. More space never hurts.

 

[g4m3rof1337]

cheap what?
ill take a pic hold it

 

[Jet]

my hdd now, is using a .... sata and a power supply connector

thanks jet

i might get the 160gb, but again itll be linux, will i need 160?

You don't really need the extra, but you can always partition it off, and use 80GB for Linux and the other 80GB for extra storage for Windows. Not like you really need it, though, with a 500GB hard drive

 

[g4m3rof1337]

lol.
well.
i really dont have 500gigs
they gave me 460 seriously.
and i have 440gigs in free space.
so i would like to get another seperate hdd.

ill prolly get the first one you reccomended jet

 

[Bobo]

lol.
well.
i really dont have 500gigs
they gave me 460 seriously.

Because there is no such thing as a real 500GB hdd.

and i have 440gigs in free space.
so i would like to get another seperate hdd.

Why?

 

[g4m3rof1337]

To separate them bobo, to separate.

 

[Jet]

To separate them bobo, to separate.

You could just partition your 500GB one.

 

[heyman421]

Because there is no such thing as a real 500GB hdd.

A 500 gigabyte hard drive holds 500 gigabytes.

A true gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes.

Your computer uses gibabytes, which are 1,073,741,824 bytes (it's a binary measurement, which must be a power of 2, hence no 1 billion on the nose)

Take your 500GB hard drive, and divide that by 1.073741824 and you get 465.6 gibabytes.

Microsoft decided that you, the end user, are too retarded to understand this, and thusly insist on referring to gibabytes as gigabytes so you wont get confused.