Sbrideau Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 Sorry for the unclear title, but here goes: I'd like to firstly say, my budget is unlimited. [hide=First question]I would like to know if it's possible to take a hard drive from inside the case of the "external hard drive", since I have one and I'd like to put it inside the computer case to use it as a second hard drive. I just want to make sure since I know you can buy hard drives and cases to use them as external hard drive. If we can do that, I would like to know what RAID means, also as I'd like to use my current HD as master and that external hard drive as slave. (Would give 320Gb master HD and 750Gb slave HD if that info is needed.). Thank you in advance :).[/hide] [hide=Second question]I'd like to buy a new and stronger PSU for my computer, I currently have a 300W PSU, and computer is an upgraded HP pavilion m7580n, as I added 1 Gb of ram from the 2Gb there already was, and upgraded to an EVGA 7600GS video card which is not even fully powered. I would like to have a 650W PSU, but I don't know anything about PSUs, so that's where I need your help. All I know is that people say Thermaltake are good PSUs. Reason I want a new PSU is I want the card fully powered as well as allowing upgrade to a 9600GT later on, and as you notice, adding a second hard drive, and maybe a 4th Gb of RAM (Motherboard supports 4). Thank you guys ;).[/hide] Sorry for mistakes, I'm kind of really tired, hard day at work. I live in Canada, so no Newegg links for me :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I would like to know if it's possible to take a hard drive from inside the case of the "external hard drive", since I have one and I'd like to put it inside the computer case to use it as a second hard drive. I just want to make sure since I know you can buy hard drives and cases to use them as external hard drive. If we can do that, I would like to know what RAID means, also as I'd like to use my current HD as master and that external hard drive as slave. (Would give 320Gb master HD and 750Gb slave HD if that info is needed.). Thank you in advance :) Yes you can do this. You need to see if the external hard drive has a SATA or IDE interface and make sure your computer has the same. It's a 750GB external then? It's obviously a 3.5" drive then so no problems with the form factor. Raid stands for redunant array of inexspensive disks. There are many different raid levels. RAID0 is disk striping which splits the information over 2 or more disks for a speed improvment. If one disk fails you lose all the information from both disk (higher chance of data loss than a non raid0 system). The disks also need to be the same size. RAID1 is disk mirroring which mirrors the content to both drives. This is to protect from data loss. If one drive fails, you still have all your data on the second disk. They also have to be the same size or you will have the storage of the smaller disk. Example: 320GB disk mirrored with a 750GB will give you 320GB of storage. raid JBOD just spans information across hard drives. This takes multiple hard drives into one big disk. A 320GB drive and a 750GB will give you one big 1070GB drive. (no speed improvement) The only raid you can do is JBOD which gains no speed improvement. You can do the others but you will lose space because your drives are different sizes. As for a psu, anything by Enermax, Antec, or Termaltake would be a good psu. 650watt would be overkill for a 9600gt, a 500watt would be cheaper and could support a 9600gt easily (even a GTX 260). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konzserwas Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I'd like to buy a new and stronger PSU for my computer, I currently have a 300W PSU, and computer is an upgraded HP pavilion m7580n, as I added 1 Gb of ram from the 2Gb there already was, and upgraded to an EVGA 7600GS video card which is not even fully powered. I would like to have a 650W PSU, but I don't know anything about PSUs, so that's where I need your help. All I know is that people say Thermaltake are good PSUs. Reason I want a new PSU is I want the card fully powered as well as allowing upgrade to a 9600GT later on, and as you notice, adding a second hard drive, and maybe a 4th Gb of RAM (Motherboard supports 4). You won't need 650W. 500W will do. It would be good to know your budget. This one is probobly the best, since it has high efficiency (lower temperatures, lower power usage) and modular cable support (better airflow inside case = lower temperatures) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817139001 This one's cheaper and has no modular cable support. It's very good from the "best bang for your buck" side: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817139004 From thermaltakes i'd suggest these two: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817153042 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817153052 The first one is kinda more expensive version of the 2nd corsair, but it has more wattage and will give you more room for improvements and overclocking. Second thermaltake is the cheapes but it has the lowest efficiency and no modular cable support If you don't like any of those just look for correct wattage, amperage (wouldn't suggest getting less than 30A @ 12V rails) and make sure you don't buy some cheap stuff ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 Thank you blade for the answers :). But with Sata, to have a master and a slave, do I have to change something on the Hard drive like we did with the old IDE? As for konzserwas, Thank you for your answer, and my budget is unlimited like I said. I'm Canadian, so I can't get anything from newegg, but thank you for showing me. That corsair seems good (I remember seeing someone saying to calculate wattage and price), I have also heard Thermaltake is a good brand, so that's why I'd stick more with it but yeah, I don't know much about them PSUs lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Thank you blade for the answers :). But with Sata, to have a master and a slave, do I have to change something on the Hard drive like we did with the old IDE? As for konzserwas, Thank you for your answer, and my budget is unlimited like I said. I'm Canadian, so I can't get anything from newegg, but thank you for showing me. That corsair seems good (I remember seeing someone saying to calculate wattage and price), I have also heard Thermaltake is a good brand, so that's why I'd stick more with it but yeah, I don't know much about them PSUs lol. SATA has no master and slave. It's one drive per channel. Every SATA device is a master. The psu calculator you were mentioning is here. http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp I would add 50+ watts to leave room for expansion in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konzserwas Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Well newegg is the only site i know :D Google can help you find these PSUs on other sites : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 Thank you both of you again :). As for a google search, I already know of Tigerdirec and a few others, plus there are some in one of the stickies :). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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