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July 26th, 2005 04:00
Regarding: Adding additional harddrive
First off, let me apologize if I'm posting in the wrong forum. I have a Dell XPS system and I have an extra Seagate Model ST380020ACE 80GB harddrive that I would like to install. I opened the XPS system and notice the cable interfaces did not match? Anyone have any suggestions if I should use a PCI Controller? Any adapters that I haven't heard of? If any controllers? What brand and model number please?
Thank you,
Kris
Thank you,
Kris
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Posted July 26th, 2005 19:00
ESSENTIALNETWORKS.As the XPS motherboard has only one IDE connector for two IDE devices, if you have two IDE devices already installed and there's a spare PCI slot, then you could buy a IDE PCI controller card [cost $30-$50] that has two IDE ports. . You could also, buy a converter kit to convert IDE Seagate hard drive to SATA.
Personally I would prefer to use the PCI controller card, but if you don't have a spare PCI slot, then you will have use the convertor.
http://www.addonics.com/products/io/ide_sata.aspBev.
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Posted July 26th, 2005 23:00
The IDE channel on this system is just for optical drives. You can use a hard drive on that IDE channel. All hard drive on this system must be SATA. If there is such a thing like a IDE PCI card then you would be able to add and IDE hard drive.
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Posted July 26th, 2005 10:00