Re: What IDE Drive for my 5 year old Dell8200


"Steve Bird" <stevenospambird@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi All

Just after some ideas on what HDD to buy to upgrade in size from my WD
Caviar 60GB IDE 2MB drive I have installed.
I have had my Dell8200 running XP SP2 with P4 1.9 CPU AND 1250MB RDRAM for
5 years now without hardly a glitch but i seem to be running out of disk
space fast with the kids wanting more and more on it.
I have a slave drive of 40GB also which can stay for now.

The long and short is I am looking for an IDE drive of about 160-250GB to
Ghost my drive across to.
Any ideas?

Thanks
Steve

I've upgraded a number of vintage (200-2002) desktop computers using Western
Digital's Caviar series 7200 RPM drives. (Also, I've usually added memory).
The combination of 5400-to-7400 RPM upgrade and memory upgrade has generally
speeded up the system, especially boot time, and opening applications and
large files.

I see newegg.com has the 160 GB IDE-ATA drives for about $62 including
shipping (model WD1600JB).

I avoid hanging multiple drives on the same IDE bus. I prefer a clean
software reinstall, but if you have confidence in the original drive, doing
an image copy is an option..


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