:: MIS Insights ::

In one of my earlier posts, I talked about the history of the Hard Drives that went through my life. Reading through the post made me realize that it’s been two years since I bought an internal hard drive [160gigs] and a year since I acquired an external hard drive [200gigs]. This year, I’d like to introduce a new member to my data storage family: A 320 Gigabyte Internal Seagate SATA hard drive

320 Gigabytes?! What the hell are you going to do with all that space?

• Pictures. I take around 4 gigabytes worth of pictures every month. You can double that amount once I do some post-processing.
• Anime. When you don’t have time to sit down in front of a television on a regular basis, downloading shows can be the next best thing to a Two-Piece Crispy Chicken Joy with Extra Rice during Saturday lunch time.
• Ego. I’m going to brag about it. My Hard Drive is bigger than yours.

Installation Notes for those who want to join in with the fun

• Cables - when you buy your hard drive, make sure you go home with a SATA HD power cable and a SATA data cable (sometimes, you have to buy this too ~ doesn’t make sense why it isn’t bundled right away)
• BIOS - make sure that your SATA is enabled in your BIOS settings. Otherwise, it won’t get detected.
• Windows Detection - if you can see your hard drive during startup but can’t see your hard drive in windows, check out Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management (Local) and make sure your drive is active, formatted and healthy.
• IDE - if you have to run your SATA HD alongside an IDE HD, experiment where your IDE HD is plugged in the IDE cable.

And yes. After just five days, it’s half-full already.