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May 13th, 2014 21:00
Dell Dimension 8300
I have a Dell Dlimension 8300 and would like to upgrade my hard drive to a bigger one. The one I have now is an 80G IDE hard drive. What's the best way to upgrade my hard drive without changing the inside of my computer with adapters, cables, etc.? Would it be to my advantage to use a IDE to SATA adapter then I possibly will be able to get at least 1 TB of hard drive.
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John
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DELL-Ravi Ch
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May 13th, 2014 21:00
Hi John,
Yes you can use the PATA to SATA adapter and connect 1 TB hard drive. Adding a fast SATA drive will not make it faster, it will give you disk storage space for saving your data.
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May 13th, 2014 21:00
According to the manual, the D8300 has 2 SATA ports on the motherboard. They're probably only SATA1. Some SATA3 drives aren't fully backward compatible with SATA1. So you need to make sure any SATA3 drive you buy will work on SATA1 ports or buy only a SATA2 HDD.
Some SATA3 HDDs actually have jumpers to force them be SATA2, which should be backward compatible with SATA1. Either way, your data speed is only going to be 1.5 GB/sec for SATA1 vs 6GB/sec for SATA3 or 3GB/sec for SATA2 regardless of what drive you buy.
The other thing is whether BIOS on the D8300 can handle drives as big as you might want (eg, 1T). I don't know the answer to that question. You may need to format a large drive into smaller partitions so it can be used.
You might want to search these forums for other users' experience installing a large(r) HDD in the D8300. :emotion-55: