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    My laptop is using a 1.5gb/s hard drive, can I upgrade to 3gb/s?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by lilkoolkid94, May 5, 2009.

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    SATA II (3Gb/s) is backward compatible with SATA (1.5Gb/s). Your new harddrive will just run up to SATA speeds, this isn't an issue however because there are no laptop drives currently out that will be limited by the SATA one spec. SATA II is only relevent for SSD drives or for desktop/server drives.

    So yes, your perfectly fine.
     
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    Oh, okay great! Thank you so much!
     
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    actually, it might makes a bit of difference. the HDD has a small 8mb cache, thats might exceed the SATA spec, but i think this is not noticeable in day to day activities, and can only be seen in synthetic benchmark under the highest speed record.
     
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    If your new harddrive is not recognized, you either have to switch the jumper to SATA 150 mode (on seagates)
    or if you buy a Hitachi or Western Digital, you need to use Hitachi tool, or western digital lifeguard to change the firmware to SATA 150 mode

    K-TRON
     
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    Thanks for all the help guys!
     
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