I need to upgrade my hard drive (currently only have 8mb). As I am really new to all this upgrading malarky I was thinking about getting an external drive (just plug and play). Is it worth getting an external drive as an upgrade? WIll there be much difference in performance etc? Any other hints / tips / advice?
Thanks
Michelle
If you only have an 8 MB drive, we could assume the PC is a few years old?
That would mean it may only have USB 1.1, which will be quite slow for a drive. Its also possible that the PC will not support booting from the external drive?
If you only have an 8 meg hdd then i will agree with kiwiguy, it seems like your system is an older one and does not have very fast usb, so it might be better for an internal
I have a Packard Bell Club 85 Series Pentium 3 - 450mhz(I cant complain because I won it a few years ago). The motherboard is a Tempest (that's all the info I have).
Is it possible for me to install a usb2 port?
The existing hard disk is 8.4gb UDMA. Is there anything in particular Iwill need to look for in a new hard drive?
Also, is it worth me reformatting (if I dare) my current drive because half of it is being used but I upgraded to windows xp recently and dont have access to anything that was previously installed (bought the wrong program), so the only programs I am running are xp, firewall and antivrus which cant be taking up all that memory.
Thanks
Michelle
Perfomance will be significantly slower, even with a USB 2.0 expansion card. Part of the performance equation with USB drives is the process or speed, and your's isn't up to the task. It'll be a lot better than a disk on a USB 1.1 connection, but no speed demon.
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