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    Hard drive replacement woes.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by The_Blood_Raven, Jul 21, 2009.

  1. The_Blood_Raven

    The_Blood_Raven Newbie

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    Hello, I just posted about the memory in this laptop that I just got for free, but now I have a new question. It has a Fujitsu 80GB HDD 5,400 RPM (MHW2080BH) which is a SATA 150 drive, which means 1.5GB/s I suppose. I want to know if anyone knows of a way to find out if it can except SATA 300, 3GB/s, hard drives? The motherboard is the 945GM chipset.

    Thank You.
     
    The_Blood_Raven, Jul 21, 2009
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  2. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Unless you're getting a SSD, it really doesn't matter because no notebook HDD will perform better on SATA/300 than SATA/150. If you're just curious, check Intel's ARK.

    http://ark.intel.com/Default.aspx
     
    sgogeta4, Jul 21, 2009
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