Nagi's off this time, and Miku Hatsune steps up to the plate.
First we switch the drive mounting rails from the old DVD writer (NEC 16x ND3540A EIDE; love this DVD writer, flawless performance, never had any issues) and mount them to the sides of the new DVD writer (LiteON HAS124 24x SATA). I had a choice between the Sony OptiArc and the LiteON. The latter won me over.
Miku: "Note the difference in length, with the SATA drive being shorter."
Having the drive rails is such a convenience!
Miku: "These drive rails allow the drives to just slide in or out with ease, without the need for mounting screws
Now that we've got the drive rails on the LiteON HAS124 SATA DVD writer, let's turn our attention to the 3.5" drive cage. We remove the 2 drives that it houses (1 x 120gb, 1 x 200gb), and replace them with a Hitachi 1TB SATA HDD. 1 Terabyte...schweet!!
Miku: "Another cool feature of this 'older' case is this removable drive bay/cage. Makes it easier too install/uninstall hard drives."
The case employs two of these removable drive cages, and each can hold three HDDs.
Miku: "1 TB SATA HDD installed in cage!"
I have to be honest - this is my first PC build using SATA drives. And SATA has been around for quite some time now. So it just shows how 'Jurassic' my system was. But now my storage system is all caught up with the trend. ;)
Miku: "EIDE/PATA cable on the left...SATA cable on the right. See the difference?"
With that, we're done with the initial prep for the HDD and DVD writer. We've cleared out the 'old' and prepped the 'new'.
Miku: "Off with the old drives, including this primitive thing I'm sitting on...they say it's called a floppy disk drive...did I get that name right?"
I will be re-using another optical drive from the old system, an EIDE DVD ROM drive - this will serve as a boot device and backup optical drive.
Miku: "And on with the new drives!"
Next up, we will tackle the motherboard install - and finally get to put everything together.
Getting warmer! Stay tuned! ;D
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