Well That Was Easy
Got an internal hard drive. Much thanks to everyone who commented and helped me make a decision. The offer for the 200 Gig drive for $39.99 seems to have been a fraud, but I got a 100 Gig drive (with 20 free Gigs to bump it up to 120 Gigs O__o) for $59.99, so I’m still pretty happy. Installation was as easy as popping open the case, plugging the hard drive into the grey primary slave IDE connector, and plugging in the power connectors. Actually, this was the hardest part, since I have two DVD-R drives, a floppy drive, an extra fan, and now two hard drives all needing power, so I had to rearrange some plugs. After that I booted up, the auto-whatevers handled everything else, and I clicked Next three times through the partitioning program. The whole process was a lot less painful that I was anticipating.
Why do they make those damn power cables so hard to disconnect from drives? Wouldn’t it be easier if they sorta had a button latch type release? I’m always afraid to pull too hard, for fear I’ll break the attached drive.
By Kungfucius, 2/18/2006 @ 10:55 pm
Get a PC with serial ATA next time. The power plug is dirt easy to plug in
By moyism, 2/19/2006 @ 12:21 pm
Be happy you don’t need to change the two-pin switch to determine if the HD will be a master or slave drive. You wouldn’t believe how many times I have almost lost that small thing!
… so I’m guessing the HD is for anime purposes only?
By Kabitzin, 2/19/2006 @ 1:54 pm
Not just anime, also manga =D.
By Velius, 2/19/2006 @ 8:49 pm
Most HDs come with jumpers configured in the “Auto-Detect” position I believe.