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    aspire 3000 HD interface

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by lkowal, Oct 1, 2005.

  1. lkowal

    lkowal Notebook Enthusiast

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    I want to upgrade my 40 gig drive to an 80 gig.
    80 gig seems to be the sweet spot price wise.
    I will make an external drive out of my 40.

    My question is what interface drive does the aspire 3000 take is it (ATA-6) or (SATA 3.0Gb/s) or (IDE Ultra ATA100)?

    Newegg seems to have some pretty good prices.

    How much better performance would I get between the 2mb 8mb and 16mb models?
    thanks
    Leo
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    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    ATA 100 should work fine.

    There will be performance improvements between them, but depends on what the drive is going to be used for. I wouldn't recommend 2mb cache hard drives as they will slow down performance. 8mb is the standard right now in most hard drives. I dont think you can go wrong with either 8 or 16mb 5400rpm hard drives.
     
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    thanks on the answer to the question about the cache.
    My other question is what interface drive does the aspire 3000 take is it (ATA-6) or (SATA 3.0Gb/s) or (IDE Ultra ATA100)?
     
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    lkowal Notebook Enthusiast

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    Almost all of the ones i see at newegg are listed as........ATA-6.

    I only see two models listed as IDE ultra ATA 100.
    the price of these 2 models also cost more.
    I would like to purchase as 80 gig.
    I should have purchased a notebook with larger drive to begin with...I guess.
    Could you please make some suggestions for me?
    thanks
    Leo
     
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    Hard disk naming conventions are very confusing. There are so many types of interfacs and hard drives, it drives me crazy trying to understand those!! But anyways any 2.5" notebook hard drive should work in your notebook. The ones Newegg has listed should work.

    They(ATA-6,ATA 100) are basically the same. ATA is the naming convention given by ANSI to all ATA series of interfaces(ATA1,2,...,5,6,7...) They all supported Ultra DMA(also outdated,slower PIO) data transfer modes of 33mbps, 66mbps, 100mbps & so on. ATA-6 supports UDMA 100. So it can also be called as ATA Ultra-100 or ATA 6.
     
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    Thanks a lot for the info Miner...........I had a feeling the ata-6 would work.
    I just wanted to make sure so i did not buy an incompatible drive.
    Thanks again
    Leo
     
    lkowal, Oct 2, 2005
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