wwwd Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I've got a Compaq desktop computer which is about 4/5 years old now. It's got a 250GB hard drive but I was wondering about these 1TB ones. I've seen a few on eBay for around 50-60 quid and I was wondering if it's just a straight swap? Guess I'm wondering whether the 1TB hard drives add extra stress to my computer and if I need anything else for it to work since it's considerably larger than the existing hard drive I've got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hezz Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 have you got that much data you want to store? or are you wanting to buy something just because?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie74 Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 if your gonna download that much (porn),,, id recommend an external drive (easier to hide) ,, or just add it to your system as a 2nd drive and leave the 250 as the primary boot drive,, shouldnt add any extra stress to the system other than increasing the seek time marginally,, but i can imagine running a defrag wont be fun,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sortedford Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Run it as a seccondary drive, thats what we have on the Media TVPC.Id always buy one from a decent source though, ebuyer etc... This is the one i have :http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidrick Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 if your gonna download that much (porn),,, id recommend an external drive (easier to hide) ,, or just add it to your system as a 2nd drive and leave the 250 as the primary boot drive,, shouldnt add any extra stress to the system other than increasing the seek time marginally,, but i can imagine running a defrag wont be fun,,, What's with all commas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 have you got that much data you want to store? or are you wanting to buy something just because?! In this day & age 1TB isnt a great deal tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted March 7, 2009 Author Share Posted March 7, 2009 have you got that much data you want to store? or are you wanting to buy something just because?! In this day & age 1TB isnt a great deal tbh. Exactly. I've already got two external hard drives (one 250GB and one 500GB) which are virtually maxed out - and that's on top of my 250GB hard drive on my PC. I'd just like to have all my data readily accessible instead of having to plug in my external drives which can be a pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simonez Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 1TB harddrives are SATA so make sure you got a slot for one of them ,and as they said run it as a second harddrive for date etc ive got 2 x 1TB and they are good, and fast! not that i fill them haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sortedford Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I didnt have SATA, but got an allright little IDE>SATA adapter cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 Right, I'm crap with computers but I've found my computer details here: Clicky Would the eBuyer link you posted work with my machine sortedford? Obviously I don't want to buy the wrong hard drive and it doesn't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I beleive so, but your transfer speed on the motherboard is less than the hard drive, so unless you get another controller you wont get the maximum speed possible. Check whether both your SATA ports are already in use though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sortedford Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Dependant what you have plugged in to your SATA ports allready yes itd be fine (if theres a spare SATA port, im gussing there wont be if you have 2 SATA drives allready) if not you can buy a card with SATA ports on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 Dependant what you have plugged in to your SATA ports allready yes itd be fine (if theres a spare SATA port, im gussing there wont be if you have 2 SATA drives allready) if not you can buy a card with SATA ports on But I assume in the even there isn't a spare SATA port, I could just replace my old hard drive with the new one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 (edited) assuming you havent used up your three PCI ports, get one of these SATA expansion cards. Edited March 25, 2009 by eetaylog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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