ATA, ATA-6, IDE ??? whats the difference?

[vadim]

my laptop hard drive died it is toshiba IDE interfase, and right now i need to get new one, and on one site where i want to but new HD has hard drives with interfases ATA and ATA-6 whats the differance is it all the same IDE is same as ATA-6? another question, what is the best laptop hard drive that doesnt break, cause this is my 2nd Toshiba hard drive that beaks

[Cricket]

Laptops use 2.5" hard drives and you need to see if it's a IDE or SATA HDD (IDE is basically the same as ATA...ATA-6 is the same as ATA100).

Fujitsu laptop hard drives are good. Seagate and Western Digital makes good desktop hard drives but I'm not sure how their laptop hard drives are. I think I would get a Fujitsu.

:) Cricket

[glc]

The best laptop drives are Seagate and Hitachi. I agree with you on Toshibas, they are junk. Fujitsu and WD can be problematic.

Believe it or not, I've also had decent luck with Samsungs.