Second hard drive

[simpsons]

i am planing to get an second hard drive, i have a dell 4300 which by the way doesn't support the sata, so i gota buy an sata adapter which one is good though? please help

 

[Howard]

ATA drives are still available for purchase.

 

[pkme2]

Check here.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Western-Digital-Cav...42QQcategoryZ64463QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Zepper]

Welcome to the AT forums.

Skip SATA drives for now. Get a PATA drive and when you get a machine that has a native SATA controller, you can get a SATA adapter for any of your PATA drives you might want to use in it. It seems that SATA controller cards don't work too well with older systems and the inexpensive ones have poor support. If you pay enough to buy a brand with good support, you could have had a much larger drive or a third one...

.bh.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Zepper
Welcome to the AT forums.

Skip SATA drives for now. Get a PATA drive and when you get a machine that has a native SATA controller, you can get a SATA adapter for any of your PATA drives you might want to use in it..

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