Two hard drives

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

I have an unused EIDE hard drive that I want to install as a backup drive in my pc. My primary drive is SATA. How do I install the second? What should the pin settings be on the second drive?

[masoct3]

Depending on how old the second drive is, you can set it simply as the primary jack for simplicity and it will assign itself as the secondary. If it is an older drive, I would google drive with pin settings in the search criteria and hopefully will give you the correct pin settings.

Hope this gets you in the right direction.

[Nick Kuhn]

You could also buy an IDE/USB enclosure and make it a portable backup. I think they cost ~$20. Useful if you move videos between computers.

[upnorth]

You could install it in the case, but you may not have an IDE connection on the motherboard. Like Nick said you may be able to buy an enclosure that will have the connection. But with prices it may just be easier to purchase a SATA or external USB drive to back everything up on.

[masoct3]

Yes, this too. I actually have an external case with a 500g drive. You can buy them at Micro Center.

[jac714]

If you need an EIDE to USB enclosure let me know, I have one around here someplace I am not using any more and would be willing to part with cheap ( like for a hint of a good place to fish or something equally valuable)