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Hey, Just dropping to say everything worked great, ordered the expansion card and splitter and connected the hdd. Worked great. :)

Okay, thank you very much for your help!

One last question, do you think it is viable to try and fit an extra hard drive in an iMedia machine? As trying to search for ways to mount it is giving me no clues.

Thank you for your help, now I have to find some way of mounting it now inside the machine. Haha. :)

It looks like I could get away with using a 2-way SATA splitter with an SATA 6GB PCI expansion card, the article link you provided seems to show what I am trying to do is achievable, I believe the iMedia uses no Molex or Peripheral PSU connections.

I did a little searching and came across a 4-pin plug extended, literally takes one plug and turns it into 2 plugs - would that work? I might have to use USB2 if need to buy a new PSU plus connectionmajiggles.

Haha, thanks for your help. I checked inside my computer again and saw I have a free port for an expansion card but saw no extra 4-pin power plugs lying around in the machine which means that there isn't much else I can do. :)

That's quite informative, the hard drive it's self contains samples used for a virtual instrument and needs to load pretty fast, USB2 is good for most data transfer but does it have similar speeds to an internal SATA connection? Or is USB3 near this data speed? Thanks. :)

Thank you very much, looking at my computers specs I realise I have a iMedia S3810. A little look inside my machine shows were the main HDD is connected so the computer can run which uses a SATA connection. I see a similar set of prongs above it but not too sure if its for an extra hard drive. I don't really want to start duct-taping my machine as it may get messy. Nev, does your machine have a spare SATA port? :)

Before I go off and start buying external enclosure for my internal drive and loosing dataspeed, I was wondering if it was possible to fit a second SATA harddrive in a Packard Bell IMedia X4520UK PC as I opened my computer up today to see if I could get one in but I didn't see any spare space which meant I would have to use it in a external enclosure by USB - I presume this would loose data transfer speed? It needs to load data at high speeds which is why I am inquiring about it. Thank you very much. :)