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| 1125932 | 2010-08-09 03:16:00 | Hi all I am thinking about making some upgrades on my desktop. In particular, increasing the size of the C drive - currently only 80 GB. My problem is that I am uncertain about what exactly I have and hence what to replace it with. Both Belarc Advisor and Everest identify the drive as "HDS72808 0PLA380 SCSI Disk Device", however, the original order identifies it as a "Hitachi 80GB 7200rpm SATAII Travelstar". If I am to upsize do I need to buy a SCSI drive? The options appear to be rather limited and expensive if it is to be a SCSI drive. The MB is an Asus P5WD2 Premium. The C drive only has the OS and programmes on it. All the data is stored on 2 250GB Seagates in a RAID 1 arrangement. TIA for any advice. :help: Michael |
MPG (8302) | ||
| 1125933 | 2010-08-09 03:30:00 | I am not sure of the reason but SATA drives running in SATA\AHCI mode are usually listed as SCSI by Windows, even though they are not actually SCSI. Your drive is actually SATA-II as by the model number. (This is your drive) www.newegg.com Any SATA drive will work fine. What doesn't make sense is the "Travelstar" since that is for laptop hard drives, yours should be a Deskstar. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1125934 | 2010-08-09 03:31:00 | Wow - You've used up 80GB on OS+Apps. How did you manage that? I recently downsized to 80GB in a trial run for a future SSD. Haven't got anywhere near it On the SCSI question, the word 'SCSI' comes up often on an ordinary desktop computer and it seems to mean an ordinary HDD. But you might want to wait for an IT guy to reply |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1125935 | 2010-08-09 03:37:00 | Your motherboard does not support scsi disks. You will be correct with the hard drive being "Hitachi 80GB 7200rpm SATAII Travelstar". You should be able to replace it with any Sata drive. The most likely reason the C drive will be showing as a SCSI disk is it will be attached to one of the SATA ports of the Sil3132R hard disk controller on the motherboard. Windows for some reason sometimes refers to these secondary controllers as SCSI controllers. Apart from all that 80GB should be heaps for a C drive, maybe move something off it to one of your data drives? |
McRuff (12291) | ||
| 1125936 | 2010-08-09 03:56:00 | :thanks all I think that the original order contained a missprint and I think the disc is a Deskstar rather than a Travelstar. Thanks for the explanation as to why it should show up apparently as a SCSI drive. Yes, the drive is fairly well loaded with software as I use it for both work and pleasure so it has the usual work software (MS Office, Wordperfect, Nuance software (various), Smartdraw, Naturally Speaking etc.) as well as lots of genealogical software, photoshop etc. I may reconsider and simply have a good cleanout. Thanks again Michael |
MPG (8302) | ||
| 1125937 | 2010-08-09 04:27:00 | Hi all I am thinking about making some upgrades on my desktop. In particular, increasing the size of the C drive - currently only 80 GB. Does this mean you have a D: drive also? Because if so, I'd remove tyour apps from C: and install them on D: and also move your Documents or MyDocuments to D: as well. That way C: is left to the O/S and D: (which should be much, much bigger) has the rest. |
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