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I am about to add a new HD to my Dell dimension 8200 running Win XP home SP2. Having read lots of previous posts I know I need an IDE/ATA disk. Here are two which I'm tempted by, but my question is are they too big for my motherboard. They're both 200GB and I heard once that there is a limit to how much your mother board can actually handle.
Thanks for any advice!
Western Digital
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=114579
Maxtor Maxline
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=115799
Thanks for any advice!
Western Digital
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=114579
Maxtor Maxline
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=115799
I suggest if your just an ordinary home user,just buy 80-120 Gigabytes. Why buy a very huge HDD capacity? I got only 40 Gigabytes of HDD and I don't even know how to fill it all up? I have lots of games and hundreds of MP3's. It is quite senseless if we buy a very huge capacity of HDD which of course costs a lot but we're going to use it just as a typical home PC.
- I agree that a regular home user probably doesn't need too much space.However, many games and applications take up 10s of Gb now.For example: I have (2) 400Gb Sata disks and (2) 200 Sata drives. that's 1 Tb.I use 400 Gb of that as a fake mirror of the data, but the rest is already full and I haven't even loaded more than winXP and Doom3 as applications.I'd say it is all relative to the user.
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Posted December 12th, 2004 14:00