Re: Notebook harddrives


"Claude Hopper" <boobooililililil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So are they all SATA's? Looks like mine has an IDE connector but
listed as SATA. Which is it, PATA or SATA? Does it work like desktop pc's?



If your notebook hard drive has an IDE *data* connector, then it is IDE
format. It is possible for your hard drive to be listed as SATA in windows
even if it is IDE. Some chipsets use a bridge circuit to change the format
of a component to something that it can more easily communicate with. This
is done for cost reasons. For example, when PCI-Express video cards were
first coming out, many AGP format cards were actually PCI-Express format
video cards with extra circuitry to enable them to run on AGP motherboards.
This way, the video card manufacturers didn't have to engineer two versions
of the same video card. It's cheaper that way.

Notebook hard drives are identical in every way to desktop hard drives,
other than physical size. Also, the 2.5" notebook hard drives have a
smaller IDE connector, if they are IDE format. -Dave


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