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    Hard Drive for Acer Aspire 6930G

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by DirtyMotet, Oct 18, 2011.

  1. DirtyMotet

    DirtyMotet Newbie

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    Hey there! I'm in the process of upgrading my 6930G and the hard drive is naturally a good place to start; the stock drive is only 5200 RPM. In fact, here's the model and specs of my current hard drive.

    My problem is that I can't figure out what SATA speed the motherboard can support. From Acer's support page, I gleaned that my chipset is Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset. On those two pages, I can't figure out whether it supports SATA 3.0Gb/s or not. I'm basically just looking for a 7200 RPM drive with a decent speed. Newegg has quite a few. Like this one. Would that work? I just want to be sure. :]

    If someone could clarify this, I'd be grateful, this site came in handy when I was researching CPUs to upgrade to. I'm happy to say the upgrade went well. Thanks for reading!
     
    DirtyMotet, Oct 18, 2011
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    SATA speed doesn't matter. Basically or HDDs on sale today are SATA II or III but all are backwards compatible so even if 6930G supports only SATA I these will work fine.
     
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    Ah, thanks for clearing that up!
     
    DirtyMotet, Oct 18, 2011
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