[dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the box

Thanks, Joh. I googled Hardtune and all I came up with is what appear to be
references to a band of that name. But I'll keep hunting. None of this would
be necessary if I could figure out how to get the drive out. It's in a Dell
Optiplex GS620 and it's simple enough to open the case and unscrew two
screws, but it appears that four screws are holding the drive in, and I
can't seem to get the other side of the box off. I figured maybe it was one
of those things with rails and it just slides out, but it won't budge.

Anyone got one of these machines? How about you Gustav? I know you're a big
Dell fan :)

My gut tells me that it's a Maxtor EIDE, partly because the RAM is twin 512
chips and the drive is only 80 gigs, so I'm pretty sure that it's EIDE. I
thought that at one time SATA cables were distinguished from IDE cables by
having a black edge as well as the red edge. Is that still true, if it ever
was?

A.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:

> Arthur,
>
> That should all be detailed in the BIOS. You could even download a program
> called Hardtune, which will tell you al lthat kinad thing too.
>
>
> Jon
>