Can i use an ATA 150 HDD if my original HDD is AtA/100? [Archive]

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Hammer07

07-19-2007, 04:52 AM

Hello everyone,

I'm new at this. Hopefully someone will be able to help me.
I want to upgrade to a REALLy BIG capacity hdd. The Hard drive i have is Ata/100 (80GB) and i can not find any 200gb or 250gb Hd that is ata/100. The closest one I could find is 250gb Ata/150 (model # WD2500BEVS). I wonder if this is compatible with my laptop. The largest ata/100 hdd i could find was 160 GB. I want to get an internal disk not an external one.

Laptop specifications:

Acer Aspire 5050 3759
AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 (2.0GHZ, 512kb L2 cache)
Windows Vista Home Premium
256MB ATI Radeo Xpress 1100 Hyper Memory
1gb DDR2
DVD Super Multi double layer drive

Thanks!

EzyStvy

07-19-2007, 07:04 AM

No can do. Your current drive is an IDE drive. The one you've mentioned is a SATA drive.

Cricket

07-19-2007, 10:06 AM

Where have you been looking for hard drive? I found a 750GB ATA100 HDD Seagate (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148133) at Newegg.com.

More ATA 100 hard drives at Newegg.com (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150014+1035907789&name=IDE+Ultra+ATA100)

:) Cricket

EzyStvy

07-19-2007, 11:27 AM

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Laptop specifications:

Acer Aspire 5050 3759
AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 (2.0GHZ, 512kb L2 cache)
Windows Vista Home Premium
256MB ATI Radeo Xpress 1100 Hyper Memory
1gb DDR2
DVD Super Multi double layer drive

Thanks!

Cricket

07-19-2007, 11:33 AM

Oops...sorry about that. Didn't notice this was for a laptop.

:) Cricket

glc

07-19-2007, 06:24 PM

160 is as big as it gets for an IDE notebook drive right now.

Hammer07

07-24-2007, 08:21 PM

Thanks for your help guys. However, I took the hard drive out and it seems that it is actually a SATA HD. I first looked what kind HD i have on the web (according to this website - drivesolutions.com). They were wrong. They listed my laptop as ATA HD and not SATA.

THis HD is for sure SATA (it does not have "the teeth - type of thing" like my old Laptop (ATA HDD) has. I wonder now if there are different SATA HDD out there. WHich one do i need? is there Any website where i can see picture of HDD interfaces (connections)?

Thanks again for your help!!