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Addition of 2nd Hard Drive to PCV RX202

fairdinkum — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:12:41 GMT

I have an PCV RX202 Desktop PC and would like to add a 2nd hard drive for video editing. I assume that there is no space in the PC's casing for a 2nd hard drive. If this is the case can you help with advice as to what type of external hard drive I should look to add please. I intend to add a drive with at least 60Gbytes.

Thanks,

Des.

Addition of 2nd Hard Drive to PCV RX202

kee-lo_ — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:16:12 GMT

I suggest a Maxtor Personal Storage drive that hooks up to the firewire port, there are some 7200RPM drives that support upto 160GB.

Addition of 2nd Hard Drive to PCV RX202

Ling — Sun, 27 Apr 2003 10:45:47 GMT

Or you could try one of Lacie's external firewire drives - also nice and speedy and they go up to ridiculous sizes like 500gb, and look nice too

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kee-lo_ — Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:12:00 GMT

Yep, LaCiE are nice, but expensive.
I got one of their D2 FireWire cdrw drives, very nice.

Addition of 2nd Hard Drive to PCV RX202

robpaxton — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:38:38 GMT

Hi Des,

Have you opened the case to see if there is space for a second drive? Most desktop computers have ample space inside to mount at least two HD's.

Regards, Rob

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Ling — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:00:53 GMT

Yeah if this is the case then you would be better off with an internal drive (cheaper, faster) unless you wanted to carry your files around with you.

Go Internal

chuckalicious — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:01:30 GMT

You should be fine with an internal drive, the only thing you may need to check is whether yo uneed a 5.25" to 3.5 " bay caddy. I was in the process of fitting an new one into my RX405 until my second PC died and I had to use that one for the second PC. You should be fine. Just remember the whole Master/Slave setup!

Re: Go Internal

aaronjb — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:46:06 GMT

Just remember the whole Master/Slave setup!

Has anyone else noticed how many modern machines are coming set up for cable select on the IDE chains, rather than specifying Master/Slave, or is it just me? All the new HP/Compaq machines we've had here recently are like that (which catches me out every time, wondering why it all stops working when I set the second drive to Slave.. Guess I'm just stuck in my ways!)..

(Sorry, not trying to make adding a second drive sound complicated btw - it's really not, like everyone says :smileyhappy:)

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kee-lo_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:56:10 GMT

Yeah why the hell can't they set them to the correct setting ?

Addition of 2nd Hard Drive to PCV RX202

Stephanius — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:07:02 GMT

Just a wild guess, but could it be due to the fact that they allow customisation of the models, and want to keep assembly as easy as possible.
Oh, one thing here, dont mix optical drives and hard disk drives on one controller, unless you prefer your HDD really slow :!:

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aaronjb — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:07:19 GMT

Well - looking in the side of this HP that's next to me (which has the side panel off from where I was mucking with an old AHA-2920 card earlier), I can see how it makes it easier for your average 'user' (ahem, sorry folks :smileygrin:) to add a new drive..

The cable is there with two connectors, each one clearly marked as "Drive 0" (the factory equipped drive) and "Drive 1" for where you add a second drive.. Makes it all nicely plug & play for people, really..

It's probably only me it catches out :smileygrin:

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kee-lo_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:21:22 GMT

Yeah but thats a nice feature for people who are learning to build PCs.

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Stephanius — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:11:49 GMT

Yeah but thats a nice feature for people who are learning to build PCs.

There are not only positive sides to this. Keeping the user dumb is one main trend for the past years. When you tell someone to type a few simple commands they will very lilkely need minute instructions.

I remmeber a phone call a couple of years ago with an early case of this:

"go to the dos-prompt"
*silence* "what?"
"the command prompt"
"uhm...."
"the black thing"
"ahhhh!"
*sights*

That was Windows 3.11. I shudder when I extrapolate this to the current date and XP.

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aaronjb — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:53:54 GMT

I get calls like that every day (And I'm not even meant to be front line support..)..

The worst thing is - some of those calls are from our own staff! (We're an IT company, software house to be exact)

Sigh.

I remember learning the hard way, 386sx's, DOS, maybe a proprietory GUI thing (Well, it was a Tandy PC).. And then scrapping the lot and compiling linux kernels to go on..

Funny thing is - I remember a full kernel compile taking a few hours back then..

It still takes a few hours now on a P4.. I guess the kernel has grown some

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schedski — Wed, 21 May 2003 20:59:49 GMT

I'm looking to add a second internal drive (IBM 180Gb) to my PCV-RX1 desktop. Not having upgraded a PC's hard drive since my 486 days I'm a little confused over the difference between ATA, UIDE and IDE. Which should I be going for, or at least which will work?

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kee-lo_ — Thu, 22 May 2003 11:52:22 GMT

Well, hard drives haven't really changed much since the 486 - except for size and UIDE. ATA used to be around too, it was 33 I think, now we have 133.

Also IBM don't make drives anymore, Hitatchi took over.