-=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Contraption (replacing it?)
- From: "Don Wilcox" <Dwilcox3@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 08:54:52 -0400
Unless you have a mini or micro case instead of a mid or full-size case you
should have at least...
1 or 2 3.5 inch drive bays for floppy drives and 3.5 inch hard drives
1 or 2 five inch drive bays for optical and 5 inch hard drives
1 or 2 3.5 inch drive bays for 3.5 inch hard drives
My mid tower Dell Dimension 8300 (with that gawd-awful clam shell case) has
a total of 6 drive bays... two 5 inch and four 3.5 inch bays. I'm thinking
about removing the floppy drive so I can install two PATA drives to go with
the 2 SATA drives.
Tip: Disconnect at least one end of every cable and move them out of the
way while you install drives. Then connect them back up. Label them so you
know what they go to.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Becky kane" <bekkykane@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:07 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Contraption (replacing it?)
> Ahhhhhhhh so that's a SATA drive, I like it. easy to plug in and wires
> much more neat. It looks like I can have up to three drives, or has that
> cooking sherry got to me ;-) . I would very much like to move over some of
> the other drives but the only connection I see is one for the other cdrw
> drive. I can see no other places for hard drives but for the SATA type?
> Plus the wires are horrible, they have them all over the insides of the
> hard drive cases. I cannot for the life of me see how through all that
> plastic a person can deside how to install a hard drive, it drove me
> crazy!.
> I'll keep my other cdrw drives and hard drives for a bit, why was it that
> the drive that would not install here was the same drive that was the C:\>
> drive there on the bad computer, me thinking I smell a rat :-)?
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