PCI Sata

zod

I've just bought a third sata hd for my dimension E520 and now realize that the last spare sata connection is for an optical drive.

So I have to buy a card to allow me to put another hard disk into the PC.

Anyone any recomendations ?

I should probably buy something that can support esata for the future .. like this one I think ?

Ghost Train

the pci card is an option or you could get something like this and use it externally

http://www.cooldrives.com/sata-hard-driveenclosure.html

http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=630

zod

eolhc wrote: »

the pci card is an option or you could get something like this and use it externally

http://www.cooldrives.com/sata-hard-driveenclosure.html

http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=630

thanks but I need faster access than usb, is esata the next new external standard ?

Ghost Train

well until usb 3.0 appears in a year or two, esata is the only way to go if you need fast tranfers. No real worries about going with esata as as a standard it's really just the same as sata which is well established. Don't think it will start appearing as a standard port on all laptops or all new machines as compared to usb ports it's limited to drives(and only one drive per port)