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September 21st, 2004 17:00
Serial ATA vs EIDE
I have a Dell 8100 which I have upgraded from Me to XP Home. It came equipped with a WD 40 GB HD, EIDE ATA 100 Interface. I want to buy a second drive. I see some of them on the Dell website are labeled Serial ATA, and other are EIDE. Will Serial ATA drives fit in my 8100? I have no idea what the difference is between these two terminologies. How can I be sure a drive that I buy will fit in my Dell 8100? (I tried the Dell upgrade tool, it does not list any internal HD's at all........)
Thanks in advance.........
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shesagordie
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September 21st, 2004 17:00
kweigel.
The D8100 motherboard does not support SATA HDs, only ATA/EIDE drives, unless you buy a PCI SATA add on controller card and there would very little performance increase using a SATA HD in your system.
You can use any standard ATA-EIDE-IDE HD up to 137GB in size, if you wish to install a larger HD, you would then need the lastest BIOS, to be running Windows XP with SP1.
For more information read the following article about SATA technology
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20020812/index.html
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September 21st, 2004 17:00
The drive will fit "but" you would need to install a Serial ATA controller card to utilize this technology. It is easier (and cheaper) to stay with the EIDE ATA100 type drives that your machine came with, if you plan on retaining the original 40 Gb for storage purposes.
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