Purchasing a Second Hard Drive?

[Seedler]

I donno in UK, but in Canada a 300 Gig Maxtor 16mb cache ata 133 is only $130, so that would be only like 70 pounds british. Go with drives with 16 mb cache, as the cache do help alot.

[fkdup74]

Seagate + 5 year warranty = sweet
Western Digital + 3 year warranty = solid

Maxtor + 3 year warranty + extra buffer =

IMO Maxtor is like Intel, they offer the extra cache/buffer 'cause they have to

and maybe VB or clocker can correct me if I'm wrong, but,
didn't M$ address the 137 GB barrier way back in SP1/SP1a?
or is that still BIOS/mobo limited?

[clocker]

I believe you are correct, but do you know that SeK612 is running XP?

[Johnny Stecchino]

best drives on market are western digital. for ata, check out the caviar wd3200jb. 320Gbye storage and reliable.

[fkdup74]

I believe you are correct, but do you know that SeK612 is running XP?

https://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showp...83&postcount=5

[clocker]

No fair.
You did research.

I much prefer information be brought to me.

[SeK612]

I went for the Hitachi in the end. It should arrive on tommorow.

Do I need to look into how to set it up (aside from plugging it in and manually changing it to a slave if needed) or will it be picked up by the machine like plug and play stuff is?

[clocker]

It's plug and play.
Once installed, just go to Computer Management>Disk Management and create the partition and format.
It won't appear in My Computer till you do this.

[SeK612]

I've got it now and am halfway through installing it.

Since I didn't have enough power cables I've had to remove the power from my only internal fan so the drive can run.

This means at the moment I only have the heatsink and the power supply fan cooling the machine.

Is this sensible or is my machine now at risk of overheating.

I've had a look around and there seems to be a few solutions to the problem (such as a splitter for the existing power plugs, though I'm not sure how good they are).

For the moment as a quick fix I can disable one of my CD drives (having a seperate CDR and DVD Rom drive) if needed and use their power plugs.

I have installed Speed Fan to keep an eye on temps. From the default install it shows a temp of around 40 when minimised, however the more detailed stats "Local" getting as high as 51C (which is then accompanied by a small flame next to the temp) and HD0 getting up to 42C.

All these temps are without the second hard drive running (with it having power but no partitions yet) which will probably heat things up a bit)

[VivaciousAkasha]

I just had the same experience. Your machine will overheat.

Get power cables for your new drive as soon as you can and re hook-up your other fan. Two fans are much better than one.

Until then I'd watch it like a hawk. Unplugging one of your ROM drives will help keep you cooler until then, but it's rather like a bandaid on a broken leg.