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Sound Surgeon
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 18:55
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im finally getting a new hard disk, i have 40gb now - Maxtor.
im planning to get 200gb of WD2000JB. however i have a question
will my motherboard support the hard drive if i buy it?
i have Gigabyte GA-8IDX.
i was told that motherboards who support ATA100 cant read HD which bigger than 120gb
heeelp!
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fregle
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 19:16
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it has nothing to do with ATA-100.. It has to do with the size of the number used for memory-allocation... This number used to be 16-bit i think, and because of that u couldnt allocate more memory then X bytes, but nowadays (and with ur system) there shouldn't be a problem... RAM on the contrary still has that problem, most systems can't go over 1Gig.
I'm not a system administrator, i'm a programmer, so this info is incomplete, but i hope u get the point |
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Pavel
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 19:38
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I personally wouldn't go for WD HD's I had 2 1 year old HD's by them that just died out of the blue.
Currently i have a Maxtor 120Gb and considering buying another one of those. Highly recommend those.
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Meta
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 20:12
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Sound Surgeon
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 20:32
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c'mon dudes
the question is if my motherboard will support the entire 200gb HD without problems!
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Meta
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 20:46
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Sound Surgeon
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 21:10
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On 2005-04-29 20:46, Aeon wrote:
run music software
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hope to do that soon
long time no music from my head!
and i hope you are right about what i asked
thnx
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Morax
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 22:18
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if you ask me, only Seagate sata, and no more than 120GB.  |
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Sound Surgeon
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Posted : Apr 29, 2005 22:33
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On 2005-04-29 22:18, Morax wrote:
if you ask me, only Seagate sata, and no more than 120GB.
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first, i don't have SATA in my board
second, why?
third, what about my question M'?
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Morax
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Posted : Apr 30, 2005 02:35
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i read in some pro computer forums that usually big harddrives (160GB and bigger) make more problems and errors than others.
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