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paulsherwin · 5th Sep 2017, 10:51 pm

New IDE drives aren't generally available now. The best solution is probably to buy a PCI card with a SATA interface and HD BIOS. Alternatively you could use a PATA-SATA adaptor, but that may hit problems with the disk size, or use a separate data disk with a USB interface. USB2 is pretty fast.

You could buy a secondhand PATA drive, but the upper size limit is generally 500MB, and 320MB is the most common 'large' size.

I don't think you would be wise to put much time and money into this - as has been said in other threads, P4 systems are noisy and power hungry.

5th Sep 2017, 10:51 pm	#3
paulsherwin Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 27,966	Re: new hard drive for Pentium IV New IDE drives aren't generally available now. The best solution is probably to buy a PCI card with a SATA interface and HD BIOS. Alternatively you could use a PATA-SATA adaptor, but that may hit problems with the disk size, or use a separate data disk with a USB interface. USB2 is pretty fast. You could buy a secondhand PATA drive, but the upper size limit is generally 500MB, and 320MB is the most common 'large' size. I don't think you would be wise to put much time and money into this - as has been said in other threads, P4 systems are noisy and power hungry.