Looking for recommendations

Hi. I have a Dell XPS T450 with a 13.6G hard drive and 256 ram.
I am looking to purchase an additional internal hard drive to use as data storage (not sure that I want to go through the trouble of reformatting and reinstalling everything), additional memory and a wireless router. So I have these questions:

Hard Drives:
1. How large of a HD should I invest in?
2. How do I know what to get i.e. interface, rotational speed and of course manufacturer?

Memory:
1. Size, Speed, Technology, and manuf.?

Router:
1. Can I use wireless for my laptop with wireless card and desktop without?
2. Recommended manuf. (Netgear??)

I realize there are alot of questions but I would appreciate any feedback as I am clueless in regards to these details.

Thanks!!!

 

Are these inappropriate questions for the site? I have had no bites on this thread.

 

you could start by saying what system all components, windows version any service packs ETC. other wise we will be advising you blindly.

 

just some general answers, for data storage i would just get a standard hdd, like a mator 7200rpm with 2 or 8mb cashe, size?, your choice really, what os are you running?, if 98, you may have to get a controller card to run large drives, or partition it into several smaller chunks.
if you get a wireless router, you can hard wire to std nic on desktop and run laptop from wireless nic., netgear or linksys are fine.

 

OK sorry I didn't know how much detail was needed. Here is what I could gather. Let me know how to figure out any others that are necessary.

Thanks again

CPU: Intel Pentium III 448mhz
HDD: Not sure how to figure out
RAM: 256MB (Slot 1: ? original from Dell 128MB)(Slot 2: ? 128MB)
Mobo: Not sure how to figure out
Graphic Card: NVIDA RIVA TNT (Not sure if this is correct???)
Moniter: Dell P990 15"
Windows XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 1
Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1202
Sony CD-RW CRX 100E

 

If you go to a site called majorgeeks you can d/l a program called aida32, this program will tell you all about your system. You are just making the minimum requirements for a wireless router with the pentIII but since that pc will be harewired to router you should be fine. what are the specs for the laptop it will have to be pentIII or better to run wireless nic.

 

If you double click on My Computer on desktop you should get the size of your C: drive listed

 

Ironically I had Aida32 on a disk given to me by one of our IT people at work I just hadn't used it. It is great! Tons of info.

Yes my laptop is a Pentium 4. It is a work computer and to it is wireless ready. So I assume I am OK on that front.

Now the "hard wiring" is this intuitive once I have the product or should I inquire further?


Also I went to a site to buy additional memory and it said it didnt carry the product necessary for a Dell Dimension T450. I thought buying memory was fairly generic???
CPU: Intel Pentium III 450mhz
HDD: IBM-DJNA - 371350 (13G, 7200RPM, ULTRA-ATA66)
RAM: 256MB (Slot 1: ? original from Dell 128MB)(Slot 2: ? 128MB)
Mobo: Intel Seattle II SE440BX-2 (Hitachi)
Graphic Card: NVIDA RIVA TNT 16MB
Moniter: Dell P990 15"
Windows XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 1
Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1202
Sony CD-RW CRX 100E

 

Mobo: Intel Seattle II SE440BX-2 (Hitachi) (2 ISA, 4 PCI, 1AGP, 3 DIMM)

 

It looks like you will need a network interface card NIC these are available as a PCI card this will go into a pci slot on your mobo, hope you have one open. you open your case plug them in start pc, your pc will ask for drivers, you point it to driver disk that comes with card, and away you go. I would recommend Netgear FA311 10/100 Mbps fast ethernet, when it asked for drivers make sure you poit it to the FA311 folder there are other folders on disk for other models.