www.newegg.com
Steal one from work. They’ll never miss it.
I’m not sure how well they work but there are converters:
http://www.addonics.com/products/io/adsaide.asp
I bought a 250 gig external hard drive from Lacie online two years ago and it’s been great.
I don’t know that much about computers. I just plugged it in my usb port, put in the software and suddenly I not only had a c drive but I also had an e drive.
I need a lot of space because I write and record music. And it’s been great. Quick as a flash too. I lucked out in that respect. Cause I can move files from my c drive to the e drive with no slow down at all.
Do you need to walk into a store? Should be plenty of online sources that will ship quickly.
You can still go with SATA if you want:
Is it to be your primary drive? If not, you can get a $25 SATA external drive enclosure which connects over USB 2.0.
If it has to be internal, you can still buy a SATA with a SATA to IDE adapter.
About an hour ago Live.com had 25% off through Ebay again(it had been awhile). Guys on Slickdeals.net are saying it’s down to 8% now....MSLive, they like playing that game. Some stimulus funds probably made it to Bill and he’s passing “some” to consumers. Keep an eye on it next couple of days...may get up to 35% off.
If your motherboard doesn’t have SATA connectors then you will need an IDE drive.
Here’s a candidate:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136111
NewEgg.com is a good company to buy from. So is ZipZoomFly.com.
www.newegg.com
I've ordered some stuff from them before. No problems.
If you’re looking for more storage, you’re better off with an external usb drive. You can get a 500GB Seagate Freeagent Pro for around the $100 mark at Newegg, and when you repair, upgrade, or replace your computer, just plug the HD back into the usb port on your repaired or new computer and you’re good to go.
Newegg.com... unless you live in CA. In that case, stick it to the state government and buy out of state from inferior TigerDirect.com. That way the libs don’t get your sales tax.
Newegg computers has a western digital IDE ATA100 hard drive 320 gig 7200 rpm for 59.99 or a seagate baracuda 7200 320 gig for 39.99
I ripped a 250 gig out of a $10 DVR from dish. The guy cut it off and kept the DVR so I offered, he accepted. I think many have 120-160 gigs, but this one was deluxe. I also got a USB 2.0 500 gig from Wally World for under $100, but it’s slow. If you just need storage, they’re are fine. If you get tired of the slowness, rip it out of the case and get a SATA adapter card. Most today use SATA drives.
Works on most any system. Interchangeable, and portable.
On eBay, do a search to filter out SAATA and it will show you only IDE or ATA drives.
Also, there are adapters available for short money that will plug on to the back of an SATA drive that will allow you to interface it with an IDE/ATA 40 pin cable.
Update:
My machine had two drives, a 120 on IDE0 and an 80 on IDE1.
The primary would boot W2K, with boot loader, I had WINXP set up on the secondary.
Picked up a 160 used Maxtor for thirty bucks, and wanted to swap out the 80. But I was worried that I would never be able to boot XP again, wondering about the MBR, the partition table, didn’t think XP would be happy if he came up and was on a totally different drive.
But I copied the 80 to the 160, then pulled the 80 out and put the 160 in as slave.
First boot I started W2K and it came up fine.
Second boot when it asked, I said WINXP and it came up fine also.
So now I have an 80 that I think I might try to make an external out of or something...
BTW, the guy at RE-PC said as far as he knows, ALL DRIVE MANUFACTURERS have stopped making the old style IDE ATA drives and now make the SATA. So if you think you will ever need a drive replacement, better get on the ball now while you still can!
Lots of votes for newegg.com, one of my favorite vendors. You might try tigerdirect.com as well. And techbargains.com will point you in the right direction. Good luck!
