New drive quandry

richlevy · 02-15-2009, 07:20 AM

My C: drive is becoming overcrowded. Even with installing to a second drive, I find that with overhead, multiple user, etc., I am having to do more cleanups. My original drive is 40GB with 32GB for C: and 8GB used as a restore partition.

I currently have two IDE drives on a single cable. I found some great deals, including a 1TB drive for under $90, but everything on sale seems to be SATA. The IDE drives seem to cost twice as much or I get half as much storage for the price.

I do not think that I have a PCI slot left for a SATA controller, and I'm not sure how my 4-5 year old Compaq would handle a SATA primary drive.

I have a larger (about 190GB) IDE internal backup drive in an external case. My options are to:

1) Swap the 40GB and 190GB drives, and buy a replacement external drive.

2) Buy the 1TB internal, and purchase a SATA to IDE adapter

Does anyone have any experience using these adapters?

02-15-2009, 07:20 AM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	New drive quandry My C: drive is becoming overcrowded. Even with installing to a second drive, I find that with overhead, multiple user, etc., I am having to do more cleanups. My original drive is 40GB with 32GB for C: and 8GB used as a restore partition. I currently have two IDE drives on a single cable. I found some great deals, including a 1TB drive for under $90, but everything on sale seems to be SATA. The IDE drives seem to cost twice as much or I get half as much storage for the price. I do not think that I have a PCI slot left for a SATA controller, and I'm not sure how my 4-5 year old Compaq would handle a SATA primary drive. I have a larger (about 190GB) IDE internal backup drive in an external case. My options are to: 1) Swap the 40GB and 190GB drives, and buy a replacement external drive. 2) Buy the 1TB internal, and purchase a SATA to IDE adapter Does anyone have any experience using these adapters? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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