Adding a Sata Drive

rabbitinlights

Hey,
I have at the moment 2 IDE HDD's,(1 x 80GB, 1 x 120GB) and they are coming close to being full, Im looking to add another HDD and I want to add a Sata one. My Motherboard is an Abit IC-7 and has two Sata connectors on it, is it basically just attaching the HDD and turning your pc back on and it will pop up? or do I need drivers etc? any one recommend a good 250GB-400GB one?


Sean.

optiplexgx270

rabbitinlights wrote:

Hey,
I have at the moment 2 IDE HDD's,(1 x 80GB, 1 x 120GB) and they are coming close to being full, Im looking to add another HDD and I want to add a Sata one. My Motherboard is an Abit IC-7 and has two Sata connectors on it, is it basically just attaching the HDD and turning your pc back on and it will pop up? or do I need drivers etc? any one recommend a good 250GB-400GB one?


Sean.

pop in with sata cable and power and boot

Depending on your budget

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=309276&cks=SER

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=302259&cks=SER

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=302885&cks=SER
(only 8Mb cache)

rabbitinlights

cool, that 300GB looks like it could do the job, do you normally get Sata cables with them?

DemonOfTheFall

The Samsung SpinPoint drives do very well in reviews in all benchmarks and tests, eg. performance, noise, temperature.

optiplexgx270

no you have to buy the cables seperate

komplett do them too.

But hey do look around.