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paulsherwin · 8th Sep 2017, 12:04 pm

You can install an additional drive anywhere it will physically fit. Good airflow is nice but modern drives don't run especially hot.

If you take the drive out of your kerbside find you won't be able to use it for anything other than parts, though I guess you could fit the small disk from your original system - it will be big enough to play around with Linux or whatever. That's assuming the kerbside box has an IDE interface, though it probably does.

Rather than swap disks around, you might want to invest in an external 500GB or 1TB USB drive in a caddy. These are extremely convenient and versatile, and can be plugged into different computers as required. The performance is almost as good as an internal drive.

8th Sep 2017, 12:04 pm	#39
paulsherwin Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 27,970	Re: New hard drive for Pentium IV You can install an additional drive anywhere it will physically fit. Good airflow is nice but modern drives don't run especially hot. If you take the drive out of your kerbside find you won't be able to use it for anything other than parts, though I guess you could fit the small disk from your original system - it will be big enough to play around with Linux or whatever. That's assuming the kerbside box has an IDE interface, though it probably does. Rather than swap disks around, you might want to invest in an external 500GB or 1TB USB drive in a caddy. These are extremely convenient and versatile, and can be plugged into different computers as required. The performance is almost as good as an internal drive.