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ATA versus SATA

post #1 of 5
9/10/06 at 2:41pm
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I ordered my 9880 a year ago and am now looking to get another drive. The one I have in there now is an ATA/IDE. A SATA drive will not work right? I thought they were the same, but after looking at my dads 100GB 7200 RPM SATA drive, his drive actually says SATA on it. My 60GB 7200RPM drive says ATA/IDE...what should I do on getting a new hard drive?
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post #2 of 5
9/10/06 at 3:15pm
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Originally Posted by wgr73
I ordered my 9880 a year ago and am now looking to get another drive. The one I have in there now is an ATA/IDE. A SATA drive will not work right? I thought they were the same, but after looking at my dads 100GB 7200 RPM SATA drive, his drive actually says SATA on it. My 60GB 7200RPM drive says ATA/IDE...what should I do on getting a new hard drive?

ATA/IDE , the SATA will not work on your computer
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post #3 of 5
9/10/06 at 6:57pm
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This will work, right?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822146230
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post #4 of 5
9/11/06 at 7:36pm
Yup, so long as you don't want to run your drives in a RAID configuration it should do fine. Alternatively you can ask Sager for an SATA cable (for like $10) and buy an external USB enclosure for your ATA drive (another $10) and go SATA instead.
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post #5 of 5
9/12/06 at 8:32am
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Ok, cool. I may try that. Thanks.
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