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    Does the Aspire 3000 have a SATA connector?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by matt.modica, Jun 6, 2006.

  1. matt.modica

    matt.modica Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone know if the Acer Aspire 3000 has a SATA hard disk conector? Is there any way for me to tell without actually opening up the laptop?
     
    matt.modica, Jun 6, 2006
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    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

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    Your drive is an ata-100. So there won't be a sata connector
     
    qwester, Jun 6, 2006
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  3. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Yeah, the 3000 series has a SATA connector. Generally, you'll only find the SATA drives on newer notebooks with the Intel Dual Core processors and 945 chipsets.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jun 6, 2006
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  4. matt.modica

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    Mine has a Semrpon. So do all of the 3000 notebooks have a SATA connector? Mine is very new, less than a year old.
     
    matt.modica, Jun 7, 2006
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    The Aspire 3000 doesnt have SATA connector, its ATA (or PATA).

    JC
     
    NetBrakr, Jun 7, 2006
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    No notebook ships with 2 connector types, irrelevant if your chipset supports both standards. whatever your original HDD is that what you have.

    About the aspire 3000, as far as I can tell from looking at acer's site, all are AMD with SiSM760GX chipsets, hence no intel 945 chipsets. And all are ata-100 according to the spec sheet (link: http://us.acer.com/acereuro/page9.d...aram=US&LanguageISOCtxParam=en&crc=4211126332)

    I guess chaz mixed up model numbers :p
     
    qwester, Jun 7, 2006
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  7. matt.modica

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    OK, well thanks for the info.
     
    matt.modica, Jun 8, 2006
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  8. Charles P. Jefferies

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    LOL, no I didn't - I said that you won't find SATA in notebooks (generally) unless it has an i945 chipset (which come with Core Duos)
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jun 8, 2006
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    Not quite ;) :p
     
    qwester, Jun 9, 2006
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