Slave Drive Addition

[Jim Dennis]

I have an off the shelf Dell Inspiron 531S and want to add a second drive. Will a WD2500JB Caviar SE EIDE 250 GB hard drive be compatible with my current system?

 

[lxgoldsmith]

There haven't been "slave" drives since the 90s. Your pc is small and probably has only one hdd bay. You should buy external storage if you want to add any.

here's a good hdd - http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STBV4000100/dp/B00BFFQN3M/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1395332035&sr=1-3&keywords=external+hdd

 

[Jim Dennis]

There haven't been "slave" drives since the 90s. Your pc is small and probably has only one hdd bay. You should buy external storage if you want to add any.

here's a good hdd - http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STBV4000100/dp/B00BFFQN3M/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1395332035&sr=1-3&keywords=external+hdd

I'm sorry, that was my ignorance in wording it that way. I was speaking of another hard drive that I wanted to ADD as a slave.

 

[nukemaster]

You may be out of room, you would have to check.

Technically any IDE drive can be a "Slave" because they use a Master/Slave arrangement.

It is getting harder to get IDE drives, so if the system happens to have room and a SATA port, that is the route I would go with for internal storage.

 

[Jim Dennis]

You may be out of room, you would have to check.

Technically any IDE drive can be a "Slave" because they use a Master/Slave arrangement.

It is getting harder to get IDE drives, so if the system happens to have room and a SATA port, that is the route I would go with for internal storage.

Thank you VERY much for your response, dang that was quick!!

 

[nukemaster]

Some cases also have a space for a hard drive on the case floor assuming you are not using a slim line case. Dell was kind of bad for releasing more than one system form factor under the same model

Remember to set the jumpers when you setup this second drive.

On the cable it should be.
Board ------ Slave ------ Master

 

[lxgoldsmith]

You may be out of room, you would have to check.

Technically any IDE drive can be a "Slave" because they use a Master/Slave arrangement.

It is getting harder to get IDE drives, so if the system happens to have room and a SATA port, that is the route I would go with for internal storage.

that pc is a sata system and there are two drive bays. if it has enough sata ports left, this would be the best route for internal storage