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January 2nd, 2010 14:00
Dell Dimension E510 hard drive capacity?
I have a Dell Dimension E510 that currently has a 160 GB hard drive. I want to replace the hard drive with a larger one sometime later on down the road. I need to know what is the largest hard drive this model can accomidate. I have already called Dell and asked a sales rep, he gave me some conflicting information. First he said 2 GB (as if, the PC currently has a 160 GB drive), then he said it's max is a 2,000 GB drive. Now I know that it's max isn't a 2 GB, but 2,000 GB sounds too unrealistic. I don't know if there even is such a thing as a 2,000 GB hard drive!
Anyone know for real what is the largest Hard Drive the E510 can accommidate?
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fireberd
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January 2nd, 2010 15:00
I have an E510.
I've had a 500GB installed in mine. But, it will take the 1TB drives available. There are 1.5TB drives but I don't know of anyone that has installed one in an E510 (or the identical 5150) but theoretically it will work.
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January 2nd, 2010 15:00
I believe the E510 uses the SATA standard.. thus you can stuff any hard drive in there. They do make 2,000GB hard drives, but they are normally called Terabyte drives.. Aka 1 Terabyte and 2 Terabyte... I dunno why you would need THAT much space, buuut it should work.
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January 2nd, 2010 17:00
I definatly could use a large drive, but a one or two terabyte drive is definatly un-neccessary. I am a big flight sim enthusiast. I just purchased a copy of the latest version of the flight sim "X-Plane". I found to my disappointment that my current hard drive lacks the free space needed to fully install the sim with all it's scenery. I plan to upgrade this PC's existing hard drive to a 250, 320, or 500 GB drive sometime next month.
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January 2nd, 2010 18:00
Awesome! Happy Flying!
fireberd
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January 3rd, 2010 03:00
I have a 1TB Hitachi hard drive on my Win 7 64 bit system, but that system is also used for my Sonar recording studio software and the Sonar files can get relatively large, depending on the recording.
eman8567
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November 15th, 2010 13:00
I just got a 1tb Hitachi hard drive. My computer does not see it. I checked all the cables and they work. Any insight to how my pc can find the drive.
osprey4
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November 17th, 2010 10:00
Hi Eman8567,
Did you boot to the BIOS and set the appropriate SATA channel to ON? I think you might have missed that step.
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November 17th, 2010 12:00
Yes thank you. I did miss that step. It is working great.