Hi All,

I have an ASUS A7A266-E motherboard, with an Athlon XP 1800+. I currently have two HDDs - one at 60GB and one at 80GB. I am buying a Western Digital 200GB drive from a mate at work, but I am worried that my board won't recognise it. I have checked ASUS's website, but it doesn't say what the maximum HDD size is.

Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks

Daniel

 

isnt the size of the hard drive down to the operating system now

 

not sure what the biggest is but I've got a 250GB. You won't have any problems. your mb supports UDMA 100/133 drives so just check its compatible with that

 

Size isn't everything, technique is also important

 

dont take any notice of what your lass says bigger is always better

 

Thanks for the replies guys.

The drive is an ATA 100 EIDE drive, so I assume it will work? Oh well, I'll find out on Monday when I pick it up!

Thanks again

Daniel

 

i reckon it will.

I've got Asus A7N8X m/board and have a 250 GB Hard drive.

 

Plugged the drive in last night, and my motherboard sees it fine!

I'm now a happy bunny, with 340GB of HDD space!

Daniel

 

At the moment the biggest you can buy is 400gb from hitachi.
they are holding back all the bigger drives. i know they have developed a 800gb drive, but dont seem to think there is a market for it yet