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    ACER 110 and SATA

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by ralphzak, Oct 14, 2010.

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    That's because this computer is back from 2003 or so and back then all HDDs were PATA. SATA became widely available in 2005-2006 or so.
    PATA drives are still available but are priced a bit like antiques- SATA drive of the same size is a lot cheaper.
     
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    are you saying the article is outdated and really meant to say that you can't buy a SATA drive for any computer - period? (still a funny thing to say, but anyway)

    the article was written in 2007..
     
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    There's a link in the article you've mentioned (dated 2007) to another article on upgrading the HDD (dated 2003). And as a comment to this link they added some information that were not mentioned in the 2003 article- one of them is that you can't put a SATA drive in the Acer 110.
    In 2003 they had not written about that because SATA was yet to be invented back then.

    So to put it short- this computer has a PATA connector and you have to buy a PATA drive hence the note "you can't buy a SATA drive for the Acer C110"
     
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    do you think a PATA->SATA adaptor might be too big?
     
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    Adaptor won't fit but there are some 160GB Samsung PATA drives available that are pretty fast and reasonably priced. I've also seen WD 250GB PATA drivers but these were a bit expensive.
     
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