Hard Drive install question

[Ruff_Ryder]

I am running out of space on my current HD, is installing a new HD just plug and play?

 

I plan to run the new HD along with my current one, will there be compatability issues with certain drives?

 

My current HD is a Western Digital 160GB SATAII 8MB Cache.

 

BTW any HD recs would be appreciated, I store a lot of music.

 

Thanx.

Edited May 18, 2009 by Ruff_Ryder

[samurai nightling]

If your storing alot of music, I would just go with an external harddrive. You can get it with more space and it would be easier to set up than installing a new internal HDD.

[Ruff_Ryder]

If your storing alot of music, I would just go with an external harddrive. You can get it with more space and it would be easier to set up than installing a new internal HDD.

 

That sounds like a winner, is it possible to get my Media Player to access its library from the external drive?

[Primus]

Is this a sata drive? You can get a sata docking station and swap any sata drive you wish. It plugs in USB.

 

I have this one with a 500 gig WD sata 3g drive in it.

Thermaltake Docking Station

 

It comes in very handy when I want to scan a sata drive for viruses and spyware. Makes it so much easier when I do backup for people, no need to even boot up their PC I just

pull out their drive and plug it in.

Edited May 19, 2009 by Primus

[Preacher]

http://www.thermaltakestore.com/blacx-n0020028.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822145233

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822145249

 

or the one I have (and am happy with) http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...&CatId=2421

[Tek-Almighty]

If you are set on multiple drives, I would buy an internal HDD...not external, as speed of transfer (especially lots of music in small files) will take a while. If you are going to add a single internal hard drive, then just install, and you will have to format and then R-click my computer, manage, storage, local disk...bring the drive up and you are good to go.

 

 

If I were going with a single drive system...(and use your old drive as backup for key stuff...) I would get a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB edition. IT has good capacity and is really, really fast.

 

Question: Do you plan to reinstall windows or are you going to ghost your operating system and files onto the new one?

 

I always go clean install...

 

But, if that isn't the case, you will have to install your new drive, then format it.

 

Then, I would use a utility to image your old drive onto new.

 

If you do clean install, then no prob. Just unplug old hard drive. Insert windows DVD. Reboot...

Edited May 19, 2009 by Tek-Almighty

[Flitterkill]

1) I think Tek's infant has kept him up at night sometimes. (430am?)

 

2) Keep an eye out for the spam posts - we'll leave that post intact for amusement value but that account is nuked now (hence the guest tag)

 

3) I have probably two terabytes right now. I may need more. How you can get by with a 160 for so long boggles my mind.

 

-Fk

[Bewildered]

or ... if you have gobs of money, get one of these: http://www.drobo.com/

 

and toss some drives in it.

[Ruff_Ryder]

I have probably two terabytes right now. I may need more. How you can get by with a 160 for so long boggles my mind.

 

LOL,

 

OK, I added a 750GB ext. drive and I went into media sharing on my WMP and added a folder for my ext. drive and it looks like its gonna work out fine, I can move all my music files to the ext. drive and they still display in my WMP library.

Edited May 19, 2009 by Ruff_Ryder