Max IDE hdd size?

[ediot]

Hey Bros,

Yesterday i went SLS and wanted to get a IDE hdd for my old P4 PC.

Can i use those 500GB drives on my PC? It's an old P4-2.4 using INTEL 845 chipset.

All those shop people all say dunno can work or not.


Is it worth it to get a PCI SATA card and a SATA drive? or how about those SATA to IDE converter cables / plugs?

[magixspeed]

Hey Bros,

Yesterday i went SLS and wanted to get a IDE hdd for my old P4 PC.

Can i use those 500GB drives on my PC? It's an old P4-2.4 using INTEL 845 chipset.

All those shop people all say dunno can work or not.


Is it worth it to get a PCI SATA card and a SATA drive? or how about those SATA to IDE converter cables / plugs?

It's all got to be with your M/B on supporting the HDD.
As for those SATA to USB converter.It is not advisable.
I bought it barely one month, and it is not working anymore.
For your information, i seldom use it anyway.

My advise to you, to play safe. you may want to grab those external HDD.
It can be supported quite well on windows.

[ediot]

my motherboard is abit BE7 ... i checked the manual but it doesn't say anything about max hdd size ,,, anyway i think when this motherboard was design, there wasn't so big hard disk anyway.

external hdd can use as boot up drive?

[commach]

I845 series chipset can support the largest capacity drive in the market as of now.
500gb is peanut for this chipset.

[ediot]

I845 series chipset can support the largest capacity drive in the market as of now.
500gb is peanut for this chipset.


COOL!! :s12:

thanks bro!

[sinindoygn]

Hey Bros,

Yesterday i went SLS and wanted to get a IDE hdd for my old P4 PC.

Can i use those 500GB drives on my PC? It's an old P4-2.4 using INTEL 845 chipset.

All those shop people all say dunno can work or not.


Is it worth it to get a PCI SATA card and a SATA drive? or how about those SATA to IDE converter cables / plugs?

Don't know is MB or PSU problem, mostly is PSU problem. I have 2 desktop. HEC ZEPHR 750W, GA-EP45-DS3R,GA-P35C-DS3R. Tried to use more then 2 x 500gb seagate HD in one unit. I seems like there are power surge & auto reboot frequently. Most of the time will also hear either HD making noise "tic tic", that means supply problem. When I removed 1 HD, works quite fine, only once in a blue moon it will auto reboot. Have also tried with only 1.5 TB(Window), worst, lagged + auto reboot. Give up, both of my desktop use only 500gb HD & setup a NAS with 1.5TB+0.5TB. Last few days ago I saw in the internet HD now have low power consumption but don't know can work or not. One thing I'm quite sure, if you uses a lot of hardware on your system with normal PSU, surely you will face the "window hanged" problem.