external harddisk question,please help

xxthunder SG

My operating system is win ME and the internal harddisk is IDE with 20G,ram is sdram 128mb.

So is what is the max volume of harddisk I can use as external harddrive,am I restricted to IDE type of harddrive only.

Can I buy 1.8,2.5,3.5 inch type of internal hardisk with external casing or purely external type of 1.8,2.5,3.5 inch is better.

Please offer your assistance,thanks!

allentyb SG

how come you are only limited to IDE hard disk only

have you check whether do you have any slot, for sata hard disk?

and between, now there are 1 TG external hard disk, and you have to ask yourself, whether do you need so much hard disk for?

now my 250 gb hard disk is almost used up already

ndmmxiaomayi SG

If you are using an external hard disk, the disk space won't be restricted.

If you are going to add an internal hard disk, there might be restrictions. Not too sure on this though.

xxthunder SG

what about the speed of the external harddrive,is there a restriction in my case?

allentyb SG

u try having two 500 gb hard disk in your computer, and see whether your start up will lag or not lor Laughing

kenn3th SG

for external, it does not have any restrictions, the speed of the external hdd is just how fast the disk spins and writes data, and reads data

allentyb SG

have you check whether your motherboard support sata or not....

i find it hard to believe that your motherboard can't support sata hard disk

even for my damn old motherboard, have two sata pin...................

every motherboard can have up to 4 hard disk pin for you to connect to

two IDE and two sata, for my motherboard

ndmmxiaomayi SG

No.

kenn3th SG

thunder, if u have the $, i recc you to buy a smaller capacity hdd (to save $) and maybe upgrade your ram, and change your os to xp.

that's my 2 cents worth.

xxthunder SG

If my motherboard only support IDE harddrive,does that means I can only buy IDE harddrive even for external harddrive?

kenn3th SG

no, any kind will do, cause a mother board is not needed

ceecookie SG

do u mind downgrading to Windows 95? Laughing