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Thu 28 Dec, 2006 06:55 pm
I've has this comp for around 2 years and the hard drive is getting full. I'm exploring options for either a replacement HD, A second HD, or an external HD. I would like to know what info i need to purchase and install a new hard drive.
Would I be better going for an external hard drive? Any diff in performance?
The current HD is a Seagate Barracuda ST380011A 80GB.
9 gig of free space.
What other info do i need to gather?
Current system
Vendor Seagate
Model ST380011A
Disk Family Barracuda 7200.7
Interface IDE ATA
Revision 8.01
Size 80 GBytes
Removable No
Location Primary Controller - Master drive
Controller Buffer Size on Drive 2 MBytes
Capabilities DMA, LBA, IORDY_Disable, IORDY
PIO Mode Support 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
DMA SW Mode Support Not Supported
DMA MW Mode Support 0 - 1 - 2
UDMA Mode Support 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 (ATA/66) - 5 (ATA/100)
Current UDMA mode 5 (ATA-100)
These two disks are what we thought would be compatible
Seagate barracuda 160 gig 2MB chache ST3160023A
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Seagate 160G 7200RPM ATA-100 8MB Cache [ST3160812A/ST3160215A]
If you replace the hard disk into more GB like 120 or 160 if there is, I
think it would be better for the whole system. On the other hand,
everybody now has an external hard disk, great capacity and small
to take everywhere.
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