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Is there a limit of space capacity for adding hard drive?
My desktop is an old one, DIMENSION 4700.
The space capacity is 146GB, so I'd like to attach a hard drive on it.
And I'm wondering if there is any limitation for memory space to attach to the original Hard driver.
Is there availabe tray in the computer?
PS.I upgraded RAM & the power supply last month, which is 1GB and 450W.
Thank you!:)
shesagordie
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January 10th, 2009 13:00
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No limits, you can install any currently available 3.5", 7200rpm SATA hard drive.
Yes, there should be a spare tray and SATA power connector for the second hard drive, but you will need a SATA data cable.
The following maybe helpful:
The primary C: / hard drive, connects to SATA-0 and the second [Slave] drive to SATA-2, See HERE .
Dell's instructions for installing a second hard drive, are HERE.
After the drive is installed, check in the SYSTEM SETUP that the hard drive is set to "Auto" [on].
Then the hard drive, must be partitioned and formatted using Windows XP Disk Management.
Bev.
Ps. Hard drives are not memory, they are storage.
shesagordie
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January 19th, 2009 09:00
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Nice upgrade and I'm happy to have helped.
Bev.
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January 10th, 2009 03:00
i think at least, that you could use hdds up to 500GB per port without any problems.
Only bigger ones could show sometimes probs...:emotion-1:
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January 19th, 2009 09:00
Thank you for the reply.:) I just added 500GB a couple of days ago. Thanks!