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PC hardware forum: difference between SATA, EIDE and IDE HD?

by: molassez September 19, 2006 3:29 PM PDT

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difference between SATA, EIDE and IDE HD?

by molassez - 9/19/06 3:29 PM

Hi
I bought a maxtor EIDE ultra ata/133 hard disk, but it seems that my Dell dimesion 5150 supports only serial ata. Can I still hook this thin up or should I get an enclolsure. If the later, can I just get an IDE enclosure for my EIDE. SHould I get one with fan?

Thanks,

This is my first time trying to upgrade hardware

Jonni


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re: get an external case, no fan

by ramarc - 9/20/06 12:51 PM

In Reply to: difference between SATA, EIDE and IDE HD? by molassez

your 5150 only has 1 IDE slot and its for your cd/dvd... you shouldn't put a hard drive on it.

if you can't return the drive, an external enclosure will get you going. here's one i have: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=3506UCBLK&cat=CAS
http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=104

a fan isn't needed for most hard drives. i've had a maxtor 160gb 7200rpm drive in this very case for the past year. i live in florida and my work room gets in the high 70s and have had no problems with the drive or case.


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You can put it on the CD-ROM IDE

by Urza9814 - 10/22/06 11:08 AM

In Reply to: re: get an external case, no fan by ramarc

I know this post is a bit old...but...

The comment above says not to put it on the CD/DVD IDE slot. There's really nothing wrong with doing that. I actually once took apart a Compaq brand computer that had a CD-ROM and the Hard drive on the secondary IDE channel, and the other CD-ROM on the primary. It doesn't really matter.


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