Any EIDE drive will work fine - it need not come from Dell. Seagate, WD, Hitachi and Samsung all make good drives.

You will need a bracket and a dual-drive cable - the default for the 2400 is support for a single drive. The kit costs about $30 from Dell or from a third party (www.issue-resolved.com) over and above the cost of a drive.

The power supply can easily handle another drive.

Message Edited by ejn63 on 06-13-2005 08:47 PM

The stock power supply should have no problems with those. The only way to use more than two optical drives is to put the extras into external cases.

thanks , now i have another question i also want to buy a nividia geforce fx 5200 pci 256 mb and a dvd burner, now, can my psu take this all ? and i have room for 2 optical drives :( how can i expand it ? i was planning to get the cdrom drive out, and the old cdrw out of it and replace it with a dvd (thats also used for burning and cd`s

thanks ;)  But how can i accomplish that ? what do i need?

You'll need to buy the external 5.25" drive cases and USB cables for them.

The system will take one hard drive and two optical drives by default.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_en/parts.htm

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@Janto10 wrote:

i know that . how can i expand that ??

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You can add a 2nd internal bracket via the link on my site.  Then you have to go external, the system is full.