Technology Adding a third h/d????

[fckyallpayme89]

I've got a dell, it's got a 80 gig h/d and a 40 gig h/d, im wanting to add a third h/d to it, it only has 2 places for h/d's, they're both full, would it work out for me to remove the floppy disk drive and replace the ide or eide cable with the one that will come with the new h/d, if so should i uninstall the floppy driver or what? please help.

 

[Jeremy]

Save your troubles and get an external one, they work really good and are not that expensive.

 

[LAZARU$]

I've got a dell, it's got a 80 gig h/d and a 40 gig h/d, im wanting to add a third h/d to it, it only has 2 places for h/d's, they're both full, would it work out for me to remove the floppy disk drive and replace the ide or eide cable with the one that will come with the new h/d, if so should i uninstall the floppy driver or what? please help.

remove one or get an external one.plus three damn isn't that too much cpu usage?how big is the 3rd one.

 

[bigmack]

I've got a dell, it's got a 80 gig h/d and a 40 gig h/d, im wanting to add a third h/d to it, it only has 2 places for h/d's, they're both full, would it work out for me to remove the floppy disk drive and replace the ide or eide cable with the one that will come with the new h/d, if so should i uninstall the floppy driver or what? please help.

if you dont have space and dont want to disconnect anything, buy a PCI card that gives you 2 IDE slots. it costs like 5 dollars.

 

[fckyallpayme89]

remove one or get an external one.
plus three damn isn't that too much cpu usage?
how big is the 3rd one.

I thought about removing one, but it would take while for me to burn 40 gigs onto data dvds, which is part of the reason for the new h/d.
cpu right now is going between 2% and 18% depending on what i'm doing.
i'm thinking that the third one will prolly be between 120 and 180.gigs.

 

[fckyallpayme89]

if you dont have space and dont want to disconnect anything, buy a PCI card that gives you 2 IDE slots. it costs like 5 dollars.

i think that i'll prolly do that and throw the 3rd h/d beneath the floppy drive since they're about the same size and all it should fit the second bay.

 

[LAZARU$]

i think that i'll prolly do that and throw the 3rd h/d beneath the floppy drive since they're about the same size and all it should fit the second bay.

yeh good idea bigmack :thumb:

 

[Cooper]

how many cd/dvd drives you got?

make sure your PSU (not CPU) is up to the task.

I had three in mine a while back...was fine, but ima pick up 2 more wheni got the money so ill have four.

 

[DJ Harris]

how many cd/dvd drives you got?

make sure your PSU (not CPU) is up to the task.

I had three in mine a while back...was fine, but ima pick up 2 more wheni got the money so ill have four.

well cooper! u greedy m0f0! u tryna rob everyone on ur uni's hdd!

 

[Cooper]

well cooper! u greedy m0f0! u tryna rob everyone on ur uni's hdd!

I NEED more FILMS!!!!1 Muahahahaha!!!!!