Buying new computer

jellyfish · Post by **jellyfish** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:25 pm

I have bought this computer:

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And I'm planning on upgrading it a bit. I'm ordering more RAM from the seller (1 GIG) but I found cheap 250 GB SATA hard drives on ebay.

What's the difference between SATA and normal drives?

Would they be compatible with the computer I bought?

(I'm sure this came up in an exam at uni once

).

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:11 pm

Unless there's a sata connector on the motherboard, you won't be able to plug it in, though I'm sure you can buy a PCI sata controler somewhere, there's most likely such thing as those, though I've never seen one.

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jellyfish · Post by **jellyfish** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:38 pm

I know that I can get the pci card but I was asking if the computer supported it without getting a pci card.

I'll e-mail the seller.

Thanks anyway.

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