I just bought an external hard drive and now want to get an internal 500 GB + since I have an empty spot in my CP.
My ssytem was built about 5 years ago and has an AMD Athlon XP Barton. How can I tell what type of internal hard drive will be best or does it matter?
I am looking at an SATA WD HD right now for 95.00
probably u don't have SATA in ur PC
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5 years is pushing it a bit to expect your motherboard to ahve SATA on it... could you provide a model number of the motherboard at all or even a picture of different parts of it...
If you can't get any of those things, then I would recommend looking at IDE drives
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Originally Posted by dragon2309
5 years is pushing it a bit to expect your motherboard to ahve SATA on it... could you provide a model number of the motherboard at all or even a picture of different parts of it...
If you can't get any of those things, then I would recommend looking at IDE drives
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Nah,My motherboard has 2x Sata ports on it,But i should say that your drives would be IDE.
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I just bought an external Western Digital SATA SERIAL ATA 750G, did I make a huge mistake?
My board is an ASUS Deluxe A7N8X-E
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My user guide says that there are 2 Serial ATA channels.
i have 2 drives now and bought an external and I am thinking of adding another external or internal, what do I do?
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A7N8X-E have 2 ports SATA
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I just bought an external Western Digital SATA SERIAL ATA 750G, did I make a huge mistake?
My board is an ASUS Deluxe A7N8X-E
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external SATA is a completely different thing unless you are planning on ripping the drive out of its external casing and putting it in your PC?
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If it's external, it would also have usb. I'm pretty sure no externals are SATA exclusive.
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If it's an external drive then it doesn't matter if it's SATA or IDE, because it uses either a USB or FireWire interface.
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