Help on Intel D845GLLY Mother Board

[aruncse30]

Guys,

I bought my PC on 2003 and it has Intel D845GLLY board. Im using 2 segate hard disks.. 40GB+80GB with 256MB RAM.

Now im planning to buy new hard disk which has the capacity of 250GB to 500GB. I heared that now SATA hard disks are good.However it has different port.

My questions are..
1.will my pc support 250GB hard disk
2.will my board suite this SATA hard disks.
3.I wont install heavy software in my PC.. i would have only tons of movies and i also write that into DVD periodically. So, will that new hard disk slow down my PC even for movie downloads

[just4kix]

Your motherboard won't support SATA disk as it. However, you can buy a SATA PCI card for the same. SATA disks are faster than IDE so your disk-write time will certainly come down. If you are not planning to upgrade your machine, then you can go for this approach.

Any new hardware will have some effect on PC/CPU performance (it will slow down) though not significantly that it comes to a crawl.

Actually for downloads of any kind (incl movies), you do not require a high speed drive. You can replace your 80GB HDD with a high capacity IDE HDD. Or you can go for an external USB powered HDD also. Just a word of caution with external USB HDD: when writing from external disk to DVD, you should copy the target contents to your internal drive as sometimes DVD writing fails even with buffer underrun protection.

[just4kix]

Also, you motherboard may not be having USB 2.0. So it makes sense in buying a PCI USB 2.0 card.

[aruncse30]

now some hope is coming... thanks a lot buddy...

well.. please let me know whether i understood it correctly..

i think i have USB 2.0 LAN.. so i dont need to buy it,right?

now i have 3 options..

1.SATA PCI card -- USB 2.0 card needed
2.IDE HDD -- this is wat im using it currently..right?? (segate..with white huge data cable)
3.External HDD- (i think its very costly)

am i right dude???

[just4kix]

1. For SATA PCI card, you don't need USB 2.0. Just the SATA PCI card. I mentioned USB 2.0 just in case. If you already have USB 2 as you said, then no worries.

2. IDE HDD - Yes this what you are using currently. It has 40 or 80 pin flat cable connector. I was suggesting replacing one of your HDD with a more beefy one. Actually, you have two IDE channels on the MoBo - primary and secondary. Each channel can connect upto 2 drives (HDD, CD-ROM, DVD drive, etc.). The boot disk must always be on primary channel, slot 1. If you are having 2 HDDs and one DVD writer then you have one sub-channel free. On this sub-channel you can add another HDD. This will be your cheapest option as all you need to do is buy a new IDE disk.

3. External HDD are not always costly. Those small (portable) pocket disks are costly when comparing at GB per Rupee. The big ones (which are not really portable) are just a little costlier than the internal ones. Of course, there will be more clutter on the table.

[aruncse30]

Originally Posted by just4kix

1. For SATA PCI card, you don't need USB 2.0. Just the SATA PCI card. I mentioned USB 2.0 just in case. If you already have USB 2 as you said, then no worries.

2. IDE HDD - Yes this what you are using currently. It has 40 or 80 pin flat cable connector. I was suggesting replacing one of your HDD with a more beefy one. Actually, you have two IDE channels on the MoBo - primary and secondary. Each channel can connect upto 2 drives (HDD, CD-ROM, DVD drive, etc.). The boot disk must always be on primary channel, slot 1. If you are having 2 HDDs and one DVD writer then you have one sub-channel free. On this sub-channel you can add another HDD. This will be your cheapest option as all you need to do is buy a new IDE disk.

3. External HDD are not always costly. Those small (portable) pocket disks are costly when comparing at GB per Rupee. The big ones (which are not really portable) are just a little costlier than the internal ones. Of course, there will be more clutter on the table.

thanks dear.. now im planning to go for IDE.. however.. my frds are saying.. IDE has max of 120GB only... is that so??? have they not providing 300GB hard disk??? can i use my pc by using 300GB IDE with 256RAM.. will my system hang?? please clarify... please..

[just4kix]

No. None of the above answers or statements are true. And you can use your PC with any HDD size. RAM will affect application performance only.

[aruncse30]

Originally Posted by just4kix

No. None of the above answers or statements are true. And you can use your PC with any HDD size. RAM will affect application performance only.

Hi pal.. i have get 250GB IDE hard disk for 3000RS and it works fine.. thanks for ur wonderful help....

[just4kix]

You are welcome.

[Ram23]

Hi,
I am using this motherboard from Nov. 2002 and purchased a new
hard disk of 250GB seagate PATA i.e. IDE hard disk before one year. When I conected it as a primary disk it simply didn't work, so I connected it as a slave with my 40GB hard disk, again no use. I have got 256MB RAM and 1.5Ghz Intel processor. Please kindly suggest me what to do?

I even upgraded my bios from intel website. Still no use. Please help me.

Thank you,

Ramesh.