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will a 200gb hd work in Compaq S4020WM ?
Staples has some 200GB hard drives on sale, but will it work in my Compaq
S4020WM purchased at Walmart a little over a year ago? -E |
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Most likely, yes. Jumper it CS for Cable Select.
HH "Euclid" wrote in message nk.net... Staples has some 200GB hard drives on sale, but will it work in my Compaq S4020WM purchased at Walmart a little over a year ago? -E |
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OK, thanks, I'll probably get one at Staples tomorrow and try it. I'd really
like to have a SCSI drive for my op system but don't know enough about the technical factors nor whether my computer could handle it. -E "HH" wrote in message ... Most likely, yes. Jumper it CS for Cable Select. HH "Euclid" wrote in message nk.net... Staples has some 200GB hard drives on sale, but will it work in my Compaq S4020WM purchased at Walmart a little over a year ago? -E |
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SCSI would be an expensive solution for almost no benefit. It has its uses.
This just isn't one of them. Tom "Euclid" wrote in message ink.net... OK, thanks, I'll probably get one at Staples tomorrow and try it. I'd really like to have a SCSI drive for my op system but don't know enough about the technical factors nor whether my computer could handle it. -E "HH" wrote in message ... Most likely, yes. Jumper it CS for Cable Select. HH "Euclid" wrote in message nk.net... Staples has some 200GB hard drives on sale, but will it work in my Compaq S4020WM purchased at Walmart a little over a year ago? -E |
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Another point. Most PCs won't boot from a SCSI drive if there is an IDE
drive present. HH "Tom Scales" wrote in message ... SCSI would be an expensive solution for almost no benefit. It has its uses. This just isn't one of them. Tom "Euclid" wrote in message ink.net... OK, thanks, I'll probably get one at Staples tomorrow and try it. I'd really like to have a SCSI drive for my op system but don't know enough about the technical factors nor whether my computer could handle it. -E "HH" wrote in message ... Most likely, yes. Jumper it CS for Cable Select. HH "Euclid" wrote in message nk.net... Staples has some 200GB hard drives on sale, but will it work in my Compaq S4020WM purchased at Walmart a little over a year ago? -E |
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OK, I figured there were technical problems, but it would benefit me if I
had one. The IDE drives are too slow and unreliable for one of my database applications that has constant heavy disk access. The experts with that application software recommended the faster SCSI drives as the only possible solution. Of course they're mostly university professors running unix-related op systems, not windows. -E "HH" wrote in message ... Another point. Most PCs won't boot from a SCSI drive if there is an IDE drive present. HH "Tom Scales" wrote in message ... SCSI would be an expensive solution for almost no benefit. It has its uses. This just isn't one of them. Tom "Euclid" wrote in message ink.net... OK, thanks, I'll probably get one at Staples tomorrow and try it. I'd really like to have a SCSI drive for my op system but don't know enough about the technical factors nor whether my computer could handle it. -E "HH" wrote in message ... Most likely, yes. Jumper it CS for Cable Select. HH "Euclid" wrote in message nk.net... Staples has some 200GB hard drives on sale, but will it work in my Compaq S4020WM purchased at Walmart a little over a year ago? -E |
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