[dennisw]

I don’t own a spare drive right now. I have older drives that are not SATA but my new motherboards don’t have ribbon connector slots for them.

I love quick launch and use it in 7 and 8. You are my windowzzzzz twin but smarter so.......

If you were to buy a new hard drive now what would you get? What is the most reliable that will not die. I don’t need tons of storage. 1TB or less is OK

Maybe I should get an SSD?

[dayglored]

> Maybe I should get an SSD?

I strongly encourage you to get an SSD. They're terrific.

You say you need a TB or so. If you don't want to spring for a 1TB SSD, think about maybe getting a 500GB SSD and augmenting that with an inexpensive USB external drive. I doubt you really need to have a TB of blindingly fast access.

[daniel1212]

All you need is one of these:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/For-External-Hard-Disk-HDD-USB-2-0-To-IDE-SATA-2-5-3-5-Converter-Adapter-Cable-/301619452200?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4639eb9928

You make sure the jumper is at Master. Carefully plug in the female 3.5 side of the adapter cable (the USB cable end will by at the opposite end of the Molex power receptacle), lining up the pins, where the ribbon cable would normally go to. Then connect the power cable from your PC. Then plug in the USB and wait for Windows to configure it so it appears in Explorer.

Of course, if your optical drive is IDE then you can put a HD in there. If dealing with more than one IDE drive then you need to set one of them to Master vs. Slave.

The adapter cable also enables connecting another SATA drive.

Note that you can turn any PSU into a stand alone power supply by placing a paper clip into.. well as here: http://www.dvhardware.net/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=5

[daniel1212]

If you were to buy a new hard drive now what would you get? What is the most reliable that will not die. I don’t need tons of storage. 1TB or less is OK

Seagate 1TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000DM003) Looks good. >