Packard Bell Iextreme Hot swapable HDD

[Pacman.]

Hi chaps

I have a Packard Bell Ixtreme PC and it has a slot at the front to swap HDDs. One question what type of HDD so I have to buy?
Want to add some additional storage space.

 

[Darren S]

Does it take 2.5" or 3.5" discs?

Are you more interested in speed or capacity? As you say that additional storage space is important - I'd be looking at a SATA-III HDD - the largest you can get. Assuming that your PC has the relevant SATA connection and mount to house such a drive?

Might be worth checking on the supported capacity of the PC itself. You can buy 8TB hard drives now, but they are very expensive and a good chance that your motherboard won't recognise them. My mobo needed a BIOS update to see anything above 3TB in size.

 

[Pacman.]

Bought a WD Sata 3.5 inch 3TB. However I did'nt know about the motherboard issue.
Ended up doing a bit of updating.
It allowed me to seperate the HDD into 2 drives. However it still has 749GB I cant allocate.

 

[Darren S]

That 749GB sounds like a factory partition. Is it something you're happy to delete, or do you need to retain it for O/S restoring at some point?

 

[Gareth]

@Pacman.

Sounds to me like the drive needs to be formatted as GPT (not MBR).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

 

[Pacman.]

Cheers guys will have a look into it.
The hard drive is purely for media as I already have a 1tb drive for the OS.

 

[Steven103]

"media"

 

[Pacman.]

That's on a external Hard drive lol