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    Need advice on new SATA hard drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by curiousgally, Nov 13, 2013.

  1. curiousgally

    curiousgally Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    My 3+ year old laptop died on me yesterday. Looks like the hard disk is gone. It works fine if I put another hard drive. Its a dell laptop and the hd is : Seagate Momentus 7200 SATA 500GB. Please find the attached image of the disk. IMG-20131111-WA0004.jpg

    I need a replacement for this. As SATA II is widely available over SATA, I'm not sure if my laptop supports SATA II. How do I identify this information. I don't have any booklets etc that I got with the laptop. Also what would be a decent price to invest on a similar hard disk if I have to buy today.

    Thanks.
     
    curiousgally, Nov 13, 2013
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  2. idiot101

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    Your laptop supports SATA II drives. Pick up a new one from a store near you. All Seagate Momentus drives are SATA II. SATA is just a type of connector. PATA was the predecessor and SATA replaced it.

    If your laptop is running well without issues and you don't feel that it will fail, continue using it with a new HDD. If you found yourself using very little HDD space, you could also go in for an SSD to give you a boost in performance.
     
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  3. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Any laptop made in the past 5-6 years supports SATA 2, and older than that (up to 2006) were SATA 1, which SATA 2 works in a SATA 1 laptop, just at SATA 1 speeds.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Nov 13, 2013
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    ajkula66 Courage and Consequence

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    curiousgally Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks everybody for the inputs !!!
     
    curiousgally, Nov 13, 2013
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