To hook up a hard drive

[spidey_joe80@hotmail.com]

OEM hard drives are a lot cheaper than retail (as most things are) but since they dont come with anything i would like to know what you need to hook up a hard drive. Cables or what have you.

[Hellmund]

You should just be able to hook it up with the IDE cables you already have in the case( you should have got at least 2 with the Motherboard), if not just go down to your local computer store and they'll probaly just give you one. Other than that, unless you have a lot of CDROMS's and HDD's you should be right, if you don't have any spare power cables you could always get a power splitter. The cable should have 1 blue connecter and 2 gray I think. Those are the UDMA66/100 cable, the old UDMA33 one have only black connectors I think.

[Fingers]

Here's two links that may be helpful.

Installing IDE Drives - PC911 (http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/idedrv1.html)

HowTo Install a new Hard Drive. (http://www.basichardware.com/HowTo_Install_Hard_Drive.html)

[spidey_joe80@hotmail.com]

So whats the advantage of buying a HD retail what would it come with that the oem doesn't?

[Imperion1]

Retail hard drives come with the ribbon cable, hardware to mount the drive in a 5 1/2 bay, the current maxblast floppy, and an installation sheet (which nobody probably ever reads anyway).
And if you want to, theres also a nice box that can be used to hold all kinds of small stuff. I use one to hold my ribbon cables.

[Imperion1]

Oh foam, it also comes with foam. Cuel. Many uses for it. Especially as it is.

[Bsdboy]

Yea the box and foam are cool but on the instruction sheet and install software, you can find these on the manufacturer's website if you need them.

Bsdboy