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Upgrading PC hard drive

  • 02-04-2005 1:05pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭


    Hey all,

    Hope this is the right forum for this query, but sure it'll be moved if not :)

    Just wondering, I have a buy a new hard drive for an old PC (the previous hard drive is completely on the blink), just to keep the PC in action (it's four years old and doesn't have the SATA interface).

    If i just get a usual IDE hard drive, should it work with the older motherboard?
    Does the speed of the hard drive determine whether or not the hard drive can work with the existing motherboard?

    Any help would be great on this, thanks


Comments

  • #2
    benz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭benz


    Ye any IDE hard drive will work. The speed of the hard drive doesn't matter. Because its a 4year old computer I'd buy a hard drive from the B-Grade product section at Komplett.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Purely because I'd get it cheaper?

    Are those B-products quite decent, just some minor failings or returns?

    Sounds good


  • #4
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    B-grade products come with standard one year warrenties as far as I know, and are in perfect working order unless they say otherwise... it's proberly just been taken out of the packet, scratched, or something similiar.

    As for what your computer supports... some won't take hard drives over a certain amount, so you'd best check your motherboard model just to be certain...

    Post it here and we'll see what we can find :)


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