411shirts Posted May 17, 2009 ID:81058 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Hello I want to purchase a second hard dive for my PC and do not know what to get or what to look for in terms of compatability, the orginal hard drive is a st3120025a. The stats on the pc itself is:amd athlon 2600+2.08 Ghz448 MB ramI want to get as much storage space as i can for under $100 also once install the second drive how easy is it for the system to recognize it, is there any tricky steps involved?This site has been very helpful in the past, thank you for taking the time to read this and help me out Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted May 17, 2009 Root Admin ID:81073 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Well since you're still on an IDE bus for the hard drive you have a couple choices. 1. Purchase an IDE drive2. Purchase a SATA controller card and then purchase a SATA hard drive.Option 1 is the fastest easiest to do. In general very easy to do and auto detected by the system and OS unless the motherboard is very old.IDE Drives from NewEgg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
411shirts Posted May 18, 2009 Author ID:81342 Share Posted May 18, 2009 thank you for your help Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night_Raven Posted May 18, 2009 ID:81400 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Best price/capacity/quality ratio is offered by Samsung currently. They used to be of inferior quality, but nowadays are great hard drives - quiet, cool, reliable. Western Digital also offer excellent drives (AAKS and AALS series) but are a bit more expensive in general. These are the two manufacturers that I would recommend. Hitachi and Seagate are more like "meh" - OK but nothing to write home about. ExcelStor - run far, run quickly.My 2 cents. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yardbird Posted May 18, 2009 ID:81427 Share Posted May 18, 2009 I picked up two Western Digital 80gig HD's for my Dell notebooks from tigerdirect.com they were on sale? my 2 cents also... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
411shirts Posted May 18, 2009 Author ID:81430 Share Posted May 18, 2009 thank you both, good to know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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