Hard Drive FAQ

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RabidRodents

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After searching first pages of google results, I've come here to ask some questions. In looking to buy a new hard drive, there are many options, my problem is knowing what I have, what I support, and what all these numbers mean. For referance, I have a Asus K8N and some IDE 80 gig. Anyone know any good websites for a compleate newbie on hard drives?
 
If a given mobo has SATA support (which the OP's does) then you will be good to go on basically any PATA/IDE or SATA drive out there. The BIOS level capacity limitations have been defeated, as have most of the bizarre host/drive compatibility issues. Look through the Buyer's Guide and see what drives fit in your goals, then look through the ANSWERS thread that is also stuck at the top for info on what the numbers and alphabet soup of acronyms and model numbers mean. However, hard drives, for the post part, plug in and work :) You may need a RAID/F6 driver disk for some SATA controllers during Windows installations, and you need to use Disk Management to partiton and format the disk, and after that you get a brand spanking new hard drive with a drive letter that you can go to town on :)
 
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