I have a 2 year old dell dimension 3000s with a rather small case (housing) so there's no extra slots for drives.
I removed the floppy disk drive and added a second hard drive in there by attaching it to the ide cable when the floppy drive had been connected, and its works great. (it even created a second little drive (or section) called System Sav.
Now I would like to upgrade that to a 300gb hard drive
My main hd is only 40gigs... so I need more room/
In looking at hard drives I am seeing a new connector type that I don;t think would work on my older pc, ATA, pparently has a wire that connects to the mother board..
so I amlooking for hd's that say IDE
My question is, will this work in my Dimension:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8725226960&ssp...
it says IDE and think it would be fine but I want to be sure before I order it as I have have the same seen the model Maxtor Diamondmax 10, that say ATA and thatit needs a 9 pin connector interface.
I am running xp and with a 1.6ghz pentium processor.
If someone knows of a better way, or any informatioon would be helpful. Thank You in adavance.
can be either ata or sata according to this info.
Technical Specifications
Serial ATA or Parallel interface:
- SATA/300 or SATA/150 interface with native command queuing
- ATA/133
Average seek time: <9.0
Rotational speed: 7200 RPM
8MB cache buffer on 80GB to 200GB and 16MB cache buffers on 200GB to 300GB
Parallel or Serial ATA interface:
- ATA/133
- SATA/150 Interface with Native Command Queuing
Fluid Dynamic Bearings
Maxtor Shock Protection System
Maxtor Data Protection System
RoHS compliant version available
so check with the contact or phone them! also this is in the wrong forum so will have a mod/admin move this to "other pc hardware" forum.
First of all: IDE = ATA so don't let that be the confusing factor.
Any drive that is advertised as IDE is suited for your computer.
Your system (probably) does not have a SATA (Serial ATA)-connector on it's motherboard, so you should definitely choose an ATA (= IDE)hard drive.
The link you post speaks of an IDE hard drive so that drive is compatible with your computer.
As a rule of thumb: a drive that is advertised as IDE IS an ATA drive (nowadays also called "Parallel ATA), Serial ATA drives are always advertised as SATA.
ANY IDE/ATA hard drive will work in your computer, SATA drives are only compatible with computers that have a SATA-connector on their motherboard.
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There's also ATA/100 and slower IDE interfaces for IDE drives. If your motherboard only connects at ATA/100 and you buy and ATA/133 drive, no problem, the speed is limited by the slowest device.
