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2nd Hard Drive advice please
12-02-2008 7:26 PM
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I have a Radeon X1550 Series PCie Graphics card in and apart from the things I've mentioned it is bog standard with a 300w psu.
Bearing in mind I will be removing the floppy and the USB external Drive would I have to fit a more powerful power unit, the hard drive that is in my computer is a Samsung SATA 200gb drive and would like to fit roughly same for back up and so on, I cant find anywhere what the power draw would be for a drive like that, I've been used to in the past having two drives and thought the USB external drive would suffice but as I say its slow.
I was told to think about upgrading the Power unit but thought I'd ask just to make sure, the one I have in is very quite and would hate to end up with a noisy one and there is the cost aspect as well.
hope someone can advise and would be much appreciated
jono
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12-02-2008 8:30 PM
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I don't think I would worry too much. I have run two or three drives on a 300 watt power supply in the past. And, as you say, you will be removing the external drive, so that will save on the power drain.
Best wishes,
Peter
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12-02-2008 10:57 PM
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The other answer is not to fit another 200gig but buy a 500gig so then you only need the one drive and you can partition it into 2 drives so baring a total disk failure you will have a backup. As disk often come with a 3 year guarantee its rare for them to go.
A new big drive would by quicker than the old drive as well and a 500gig is only about £70 if its sata a 200 gig isnt that much cheaper.
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12-02-2008 11:30 PM
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When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment while the coin is in the air. You suddenly know what you are hoping for.
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13-02-2008 9:12 AM
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There is no spare room for the second drive but I'm going to remove the floppy and install there.
thanks for all the help
regards
jono
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13-02-2008 10:53 AM
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PS. I never had a power supply problem using up to 4xHDD, CD player, CDRW (separate drives ((no DVD in those days)) floppy, and usually all of the 6 available PCI slots filled plus AGP graphics, they're not all in use at the same time. I admit they could get pretty warm, but I was careful about keeping the fan clear of dust etc. And fitted an extra fan (far cheaper than a new power unit)
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13-02-2008 11:03 AM
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If it's a decent quality unit...fine. But if it's not
As Samuria said suck it and see.
I've also had drives lying on the bottom of pc's
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13-02-2008 11:53 AM
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thanks for all the help
jono
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13-02-2008 12:44 PM
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When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment while the coin is in the air. You suddenly know what you are hoping for.
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13-02-2008 1:28 PM
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Quote from: Strat I've also had drives lying on the bottom of pc's
Reminds me of the time with my first PC.
I stuck a second drive to the bottom of the case with Velcro once. Might sound silly, but once it was stuck it wasn't going nowhere
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13-02-2008 1:31 PM
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13-02-2008 1:36 PM
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13-02-2008 2:50 PM
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Ah those were the day's...and other meaningless nostalgia spouted by silver surfers.
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13-02-2008 3:20 PM
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13-02-2008 4:14 PM
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Quote from: Alex Reminds me of the time with my first PC.
I stuck a second drive to the bottom of the case with Velcro once. Might sound silly, but once it was stuck it wasn't going nowhere
On my first PC I stuck a second drive to the first drive (upside down) with velcro - so I had back-to-back drives!
That was a 486 SX (4 MB of memory) - that's not a misprint!
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