Cheyenne
I just got a dell desktop and the person that gave it to me removed the hard drive. How much would it be to buy a new one? Version 1.10 Please help.!!!
Answer
It uses an IDE hard drive, not SATA.
http://support.dell.com/support/systemsinfo/document.aspx?s=dhs&~file=/systems/dim2400/en/sm_en/specs.htm
You can find a replacement IDE hard drive on eBay for $4 and up.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=dell+dimension+2400+hard+drives
It uses an IDE hard drive, not SATA.
http://support.dell.com/support/systemsinfo/document.aspx?s=dhs&~file=/systems/dim2400/en/sm_en/specs.htm
You can find a replacement IDE hard drive on eBay for $4 and up.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=dell+dimension+2400+hard+drives
I have a dell desktop and i want to know if i can replace my current hard drive with a solid state drive?
mc_vikram2
I have a dell desktop and i want to know if i can replace my current hard drive with a solid state drive?
My desktop's O/S got erased a couple of months ago and i repaired it by adding all the necessary drives and programs to fix it from dell.com. My hard drive still doesn't function properly. Could i buy a solid state drive and use it to replace my current magnetic hard drive? is a SS drive better than a magnetic hard drive?
Answer
Advantages
The disassembled components of a hard disk drive (left) and of the PCB and components of a solid state drive (right).Faster startup â as no spin-up is required.
Typically near random access â since there is no read/write head to move.
Extremely low read and write latency times â SSDs seek times are orders of magnitude smaller than the best current hard disk drives.
Faster boot and application launch time â provided hard disk seeks are the limiting factor, see Amdahl's law.
Lower power consumption and heat production â at least for small SSDs. High-end SSDs and SSDs larger than 64GB may have a much higher power consumption.
No noise â Lack of moving parts makes the SSD completely silent, although high-end SSDs and large SSDs may include cooling fans.
High mechanical reliability â Lack of moving parts almost eliminates the risk of mechanical failure.
Better able to endure extreme shock, high altitude, vibration and temperatures â SSDs are tougher than traditional hard drives. These features are useful for laptops, mobile computers, and devices that operate in extreme conditions.
Relatively deterministic performance â unlike hard disk drives, performance of SSDs is almost constant and deterministic across the entire storage. This is because seek time can be constant, so file fragmentation has less impact on performance than on physical drives.
For low-capacity SSDs, lower weight and size â size and weight per unit storage are still better for traditional hard drives, and microdrives allow up to 20 GB storage in a CompactFlash 42.8Ã36.4Ã5 mm (1.7Ã1.4Ã.2 in) form factor. Up to 64GB, SSDs are lighter than hard drives for the same size
Disadvantages
Price â as of early 2008, flash memory prices are still considerably higher per gigabyte than those of comparable conventional hard drives â around US$15 per GB compared to typically less than US$1 for mechanical drives.
Capacity â though currently far lower than that of conventional hard drives, SSD capacity is set to increase rapidly. At CES 2008, BiTMICRO Networks announced the release of SSDs with capacities of up to 832GB, for release in Q3 2008. On February 5, 2008, BiTMICRO Networks announced that they had managed to pack a record-breaking 1.6 TB into a 3.5" SSD, the E-Disk Altima E3S320.
Higher vulnerability to certain types of effects, including abrupt power loss (especially DRAM based SSDs), magnetic fields and electric/static charges compared to normal HDDs (which store the data inside a Faraday cage).
Limited write cycles â typical Flash storage will typically wear out after 300,000-500,000 write cycles, while high endurance Flash storage is often marketed with endurance of 1â5 million write cycles (many log files, file allocation tables, and other commonly used parts of the file system exceed this over the lifetime of a computer). Special file systems or firmware designs can mitigate this problem by spreading writes over the entire device (so-called wear levelling), rather than rewriting files in place. An example for the life time of SSD is explained in detail here. SSDs based on DRAM, however, do not suffer from this problem
Slow random write speeds â as erase blocks on flash-based SSDs generally are quite large, they're far slower than conventional disks for random writes. SSDs based on DRAM do not suffer from this problem.
I'd go buy a new HDD and wait for the tech on SSD's to catch up
Advantages
The disassembled components of a hard disk drive (left) and of the PCB and components of a solid state drive (right).Faster startup â as no spin-up is required.
Typically near random access â since there is no read/write head to move.
Extremely low read and write latency times â SSDs seek times are orders of magnitude smaller than the best current hard disk drives.
Faster boot and application launch time â provided hard disk seeks are the limiting factor, see Amdahl's law.
Lower power consumption and heat production â at least for small SSDs. High-end SSDs and SSDs larger than 64GB may have a much higher power consumption.
No noise â Lack of moving parts makes the SSD completely silent, although high-end SSDs and large SSDs may include cooling fans.
High mechanical reliability â Lack of moving parts almost eliminates the risk of mechanical failure.
Better able to endure extreme shock, high altitude, vibration and temperatures â SSDs are tougher than traditional hard drives. These features are useful for laptops, mobile computers, and devices that operate in extreme conditions.
Relatively deterministic performance â unlike hard disk drives, performance of SSDs is almost constant and deterministic across the entire storage. This is because seek time can be constant, so file fragmentation has less impact on performance than on physical drives.
For low-capacity SSDs, lower weight and size â size and weight per unit storage are still better for traditional hard drives, and microdrives allow up to 20 GB storage in a CompactFlash 42.8Ã36.4Ã5 mm (1.7Ã1.4Ã.2 in) form factor. Up to 64GB, SSDs are lighter than hard drives for the same size
Disadvantages
Price â as of early 2008, flash memory prices are still considerably higher per gigabyte than those of comparable conventional hard drives â around US$15 per GB compared to typically less than US$1 for mechanical drives.
Capacity â though currently far lower than that of conventional hard drives, SSD capacity is set to increase rapidly. At CES 2008, BiTMICRO Networks announced the release of SSDs with capacities of up to 832GB, for release in Q3 2008. On February 5, 2008, BiTMICRO Networks announced that they had managed to pack a record-breaking 1.6 TB into a 3.5" SSD, the E-Disk Altima E3S320.
Higher vulnerability to certain types of effects, including abrupt power loss (especially DRAM based SSDs), magnetic fields and electric/static charges compared to normal HDDs (which store the data inside a Faraday cage).
Limited write cycles â typical Flash storage will typically wear out after 300,000-500,000 write cycles, while high endurance Flash storage is often marketed with endurance of 1â5 million write cycles (many log files, file allocation tables, and other commonly used parts of the file system exceed this over the lifetime of a computer). Special file systems or firmware designs can mitigate this problem by spreading writes over the entire device (so-called wear levelling), rather than rewriting files in place. An example for the life time of SSD is explained in detail here. SSDs based on DRAM, however, do not suffer from this problem
Slow random write speeds â as erase blocks on flash-based SSDs generally are quite large, they're far slower than conventional disks for random writes. SSDs based on DRAM do not suffer from this problem.
I'd go buy a new HDD and wait for the tech on SSD's to catch up
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