Another PC tech question (sorry!)
My PC - Packard Bell Pentium III 700mhz, 512mb ram, Windows 2000 Professional SP4. Hard drive is 17GB.
I need to upgrade my hard drive as the 17GB it has at the moment is almost full. I was always under the belief that it was an IDE interface? A lot of drives say 'SATA' or 'PATA'. With me being a bit behind in computer technology I've no idea what I am looking for now...
I've looked on www.DABS.com and there are some reasonably priced drives, BUT, which ones will work with my machine?
I like this one, 160GB!!!! (Remember the biggest hard drive I ever had was 20gb )
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...vigationKey=11154,50410,47240000&v=2#infoarea
Will it be ok for my system, or does a PIII motherboard only work with certain types? Is there a maximum size a PIII can work with? What do I need to know about my machine to be able to decide which hard disk drives will work with it?
Sorry for all the questions, just trying to get my PC up speed for my University course!
My PC - Packard Bell Pentium III 700mhz, 512mb ram, Windows 2000 Professional SP4. Hard drive is 17GB.
I need to upgrade my hard drive as the 17GB it has at the moment is almost full. I was always under the belief that it was an IDE interface? A lot of drives say 'SATA' or 'PATA'. With me being a bit behind in computer technology I've no idea what I am looking for now...
I've looked on www.DABS.com and there are some reasonably priced drives, BUT, which ones will work with my machine?
I like this one, 160GB!!!! (Remember the biggest hard drive I ever had was 20gb )
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...vigationKey=11154,50410,47240000&v=2#infoarea
Will it be ok for my system, or does a PIII motherboard only work with certain types? Is there a maximum size a PIII can work with? What do I need to know about my machine to be able to decide which hard disk drives will work with it?
Sorry for all the questions, just trying to get my PC up speed for my University course!