Thread: Hard drive
- 10-17-2012 12:19 PM #1
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Hard drive
Please could I have some advice? I'm looking to purchase a Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA-600 7200RPM 16MB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive, brand new. I see that there are various types...'SATA' l or ll or lll? Please could you advise on correct connections? I'm running windows 7 Home premium with a dual core processor, I want to make sure the connection on the hard drive isn't the 'old' type (?), there's no picture of the connection on Ebay, how can I be sure please? Thank you
- 10-17-2012 01:23 PM #2
Send the Ebay link....if it is new it is probably eSATA and not IDE
It says sata
eSATA images below....pretty standard in most cases ...if it is eSATA and you have a eSATA ribbon cable 99% chance it will work
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...CIzm8QSa8oCICQLast edited by abseh1; 10-17-2012 at 01:33 PM.
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- 10-18-2012 09:20 AM #3I'm running windows 7 Home premium with a dual core processor
That said, SATA drives are frontwards and backwards compatible - meaning, like USB, any device will (in theory, anyway) work in any port. The downside, however, is the throughput (data transfer speed) will be that of the slowest device.Bill (AFE7Ret)
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