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June 16th, 2004 19:00

Dimension 8200 adding second Hard Drive which size is possible?

Hi

I'm planning to add a second harddrive to my Dimension 8200
Right now my system is running with a WD 120 GB drive
Dell support told me that a second 120 GB should be no problem,
but I'm thinking to add a 160GB;200GB or 250GB harddrive.
Does anybody has expirience in adding such big harddrives in a Dim 8200 ?
Do they work properly on the system ? or is it not possible ?

I already updated my BIOS from A03 to A09

Maybe somebody can help me out or give me some advice.

Thanks in advance

T-bird1
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    DELL-Stephen S

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    Posted June 16th, 2004 20:00

    T-bird1,

    Thank you for visiting the Dell Community Forum.

    The largest hard drive that has been tested and validated by Dell for your system type is 120 GB; this does not absolutely guarantee that a larger drive will not work in the system, it just has not been tested by Dell. If a larger hard drive does not work in a system, one way around this is to install an IDE controller card that supports the drive size that you want to add; this way you can put a larger drive in any system whether it natively supports it or not.

    Hopefully some users will post their experience with trying larger hard drives in the system.

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    Figarodacat

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    Posted June 16th, 2004 22:00

    I put a 385,249 gig drive with no problems, runs like a champ.  Oh wait, that wasn't me, it was Homer Simpson, and it didn't work come to think of it.

    I'm wondering, do you really need more than two 120gig drives?  I just think you might be wasting money. 

    There are some users here that can tell you what drives the system will handel and what they cost, they're more experienced than me but I just think that 2 120gig drives is a bunch, but, I might be wrong and it won't be the first time.

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