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    Putting a SATA HD into an Asus Z70Va?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by visa tapani, Dec 13, 2008.

  1. visa tapani

    visa tapani Newbie

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    Hiya all...

    I have an Asus M6Va (or Z70Va, purchased in 2005) laptop. I recently bought a MacBook Pro to which I immediately exchanged a faster HD, so I have the factory HD from the MBP as a spare part. I'd like to replace the Asus' factory HD with that, but I was wondering if it's compatible?

    The old Asus HD:
    Hitachi Travelstar 5K100
    HTS541080G9AT00
    2,5" Parallel-ATA
    80 Gb
    5400RPM

    The new HD:
    Hitachi Travelstar 5K25O
    2,5" Serial-ATA
    250Gb
    5400RPM

    So, the new one is SATA, while the old one is apparently PATA. Could the SATA drive still work in the lappy? If not, are there some kind of adapters to make it work or something?
     
    visa tapani, Dec 13, 2008
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  2. ramgen

    ramgen -- Morgan Stanley --

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    1- Nope, you cannot replace it...
    2- Nope, there does not exist such adapters that will fit into the drive bay.
     
    ramgen, Dec 13, 2008
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  3. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Nope it won't work. The HDD won't fit into the PATA port.
    There are a couple of converters, but it'll be a bit large for the HDD slot.

    What you can do is, if you don't use your optical disc drive much, you can chuck it out and get an HDD caddy for the ODD slot, so that you use the SATA HDD (internally) fitted into the ODD slot.
     
    Andy, Dec 13, 2008
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